Gazumped! What are my rights????

mr.broderick

SquatNow wrote: »

Yup you dodged a bullet.

Go back to the house in 12 months time and offer the overstretched buyer 30% below what you were going to pay this time... bet they take it. :rotfl:

Hey squatboy the op wants advice about being gazumped, not what the state of the market will be in 12 months, have a day off..

david29dpo

mr.broderick wrote: »

Hey squatboy the op wants advice about being gazumped, not what the state of the market will be in 12 months, have a day off..

Ignore the troll.

CCCele

It won't help you, but you could always check if the estate agent are going to chase them for the selling fees. If they signed the wrong agreement, they may owe them.

Angelboots

Thank you all for your advice.

The seller had a contract with out estate agents and the others. The sellers solicitors knew they were two buyers going for the house, but they are avoiding calls from the estate agents and our solicitors.

The estate agents are pursing their costs from the sellers as they had a contract with him, which he breached.

I am going to contact my solicitors on Monday about the contract race that some of you mentioned, to see if we can recoup any costs.

My sister and i will have to find somewhere else to buy :-(

Everything is for a reason i guess.

Thanks once again.

cattie

Had you exchanged contracts? If so then you are in a strong position to get some kind of recompense. Speak to your solictitor about it if this is the case.

What a dreadful thing to have happened & is every buyer's nightmare. I can only imagine how you must be feeling.

amanda221

I have recently sucessfully sued my solicitor for misconduct, and i can see in this case that the oppositions solicitors were aware of fact but did not act upon, and therefore acted dishonestly.

I would have a chat with the legal complaints team and see if you can do something through them, its a lot easier than you think

http://www.legalcomplaints.org.uk/complain-about-your-solicitor.page

Check this link out, i also have to complain about another solicitor who has not acted for me and the legal complaints have help me no end, finaly awarding me compensation of £8000

Angelboots

Thanks for the link, i will try my luck with them tommorrow.

HugoSP

Well it sounds like with the agents chasing for their fees and the possibility of solicitors chasing for costs the seller has built up quite a few problems for himself to deal with.

Karma

Richard_Webster

Angelboots wrote: »

I am going to contact my solicitors on Monday about the contract race that some of you mentioned, to see if we can recoup any costs.

If your solicitors had been sent contract papers and then they exchanged with somebody else without telling your solicitors a second set of papers was out, then the seller's solicitors would be guilty of professional misconduct. OP's solicitors would need to report the seller's solicitors to the Solicitors' Regulation Authority.

Of course, what may have happened is that they never sent any contract papers out at all to OP's solicitors and kept silent for that reason. So OP does need to check with his/her solicitors exactly what they did receive.

Cactusgirl

I am absolutely gobsmacked by this - I have never heard of such a thing. What complete scum.

I really hope that you have some good news from this as from what the other posters have said it is illegal if you were not informed.