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Second chain collapsed. How to save?
Ggrw104
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To cut a long story short, the first chain we were in collapsed because our buyer got cold feet and backed out, and we lost the house we were buying.
Three weeks ago we found a new buyer and had another offer accepted on the house. Today I got a call to say the house at the top of the chain has backed out so the vendor has no where else to go. We've been assured that they still want to sell however they will need to find another place to move.
Our buyer has now said we have to complete by the end of April because their mortgage offer expires and we've been asked if we would consider breaking the chain.
We don't want to lose another property and if we break the chain we have to pay a £4.5k early repayment charge.
Any advice on how we can try and save the chain whilst keeping both parties happy? We're getting conflicting advice from our EA's who obviously want to keep both parties happy!
Three weeks ago we found a new buyer and had another offer accepted on the house. Today I got a call to say the house at the top of the chain has backed out so the vendor has no where else to go. We've been assured that they still want to sell however they will need to find another place to move.
Our buyer has now said we have to complete by the end of April because their mortgage offer expires and we've been asked if we would consider breaking the chain.
We don't want to lose another property and if we break the chain we have to pay a £4.5k early repayment charge.
Any advice on how we can try and save the chain whilst keeping both parties happy? We're getting conflicting advice from our EA's who obviously want to keep both parties happy!
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Talk to your mortgage company. I Once got a repayment charge back so long as I got another mortgage with them within 12 months. I did and got it back. Was in 2005 mind.0
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Our buyer has now said we have to complete by the end of April because their mortgage offer expires and we've been asked if we would consider breaking the chain.
You could ask them to see if the offer could be extended? Or they could just turn down the offer and apply for a new mortgage to give them an extended deadline? If you're keen to keep things together you could offer to pay for any costs incurred by them because of this (probably a few hundred if bank wants a new valulation suvery etc), probably cheaper than having to move into rented, definitely less hassle and certainly cheaper than your earlier repayment charge.0
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