Pulling out of a sale - goodwill gesture

movilogo

For Estate Agent = do nothing, they factor this in their price model

For buyer = yes, some goodwill will restore their faith in humanity

Skiddaw1

I also read it as the OP wanting to make some sort of gesture to the buyer.


I think, if I was on the other end, I'd be touched even to get an apology (it's such a cut-throat business is house buying and selling). It isn't the OP's fault that their circumstances have changed. We lost a buyer a couple of years back due to unexpected redundancy. These things happen.



If the OP wants to give something to the buyer I'd go with a bunch of flowers if they have an address, along with a card.

Flugelhorn

EmmyLou30 wrote: »

As someone who has had a seller pull out on me at the point of exchange which cost me £1500 in solicitor costs and surveys etc I would have been over the moon if my perfectly affluent sellers had paid me that money back as a gesture of goodwill for them simply changing their minds.

Instead I got a half arsed apology from the EA and that was that. Nearly 6 years later and I still hate them! That money was a lot to us to lose through no fault of our own and I know it's all part of the rubbish English system but still a hard pill to swallow. So I applaud the OP for having some morals and feeling like they want to make amends for pulling out of the sale if they can afford to repay the buyers fees they've lost.

:rotfl: I had to treat my "seller who backed out and cost me lots " as a patient a few years after the event.. they didn't seem to remember me. Stayed professional, hippocratic oath and all that :mad: