Vendor pulled out at last minute

magicman62

I know I posted a few weeks ago about the vendor of the house my daughter was buying pulling out at the last minute and then sold it e days later...Officially he can do that as no contract had been exchanged,
However, at the time I was not aware my daughter had kept all correspondence between herself and solicitors and more importantly between herself and the vendor by the way off messages..all the way through he had indicated she was to be the buyer hence she continued with surveys, conveyancing etc...at least 2 of the messages state that the house was to be hers...does this contribute to a 'contract' and does it help in trying to reclaim her costs etc. 
Many Thanks 

pinkteapot

No. 
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p00hsticks

magicman62 said:

I know I posted a few weeks ago about the vendor of the house my daughter was buying pulling out at the last minute and then sold it e days later...Officially he can do that as no contract had been exchanged,
However, at the time I was not aware my daughter had kept all correspondence between herself and solicitors and more importantly between herself and the vendor by the way off messages..all the way through he had indicated she was to be the buyer hence she continued with surveys, conveyancing etc...at least 2 of the messages state that the house was to be hers...does this contribute to a 'contract' and does it help in trying to reclaim her costs etc. 
Many Thanks 

Sorry, but no.

cattie

Both buyer & seller are free to pull out at any time prior to exchange. There is no way any costs can be reclaimed, it's sadly just part & parcel of the buying system in England.

moneysavinghero

No a contract would be an official document that your solicitor would issue. Your daughter would have signed it and had a witness watching her sign it who would then also sign it. The vendor would also have done the same.

pinkteapot

OPs previous threads on this where they were given the same answer: 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6248737/vender-being-difficult 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6261729/vender-has-changed-sale 

AdrianC

pinkteapot said:

OPs previous threads on this where they were given the same answer: 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6248737/vender-being-difficult 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6261729/vender-has-changed-sale 

Putting the three together, her mortgage offer's expiry caused delays, and she got gazumped.

Marvel1

cattie said:

Both buyer & seller are free to pull out at any time prior to exchange. There is no way any costs can be reclaimed, it's sadly just part & parcel of the buying system in England.

And Wales

pinkshoes

All she can do is get revenge, up her offer to beat the other one by an attractive amount, then pull out the day before exchange.

As she has already paid out all the costs for buying with searches etc... then she has nothing to lose by doing this. 

mattyprice4004

No, but as above if someone had cost me thousands I'd be looking to do the same to them 

user1977

Marvel1 said:

cattie said:

Both buyer & seller are free to pull out at any time prior to exchange. There is no way any costs can be reclaimed, it's sadly just part & parcel of the buying system in England.

And Wales

And Scotland.

The only difference being that you'd tend to be in a contract at an earlier stage than would be the case in England. But any system is going to have a pre-contract stage where the terms are sort of agreed but not quite.