Seller not giving completion date - it’s been 3 months

nxl

We had our offer on a house accepted in January. Since then, we’ve completed everything from our end as buyers. Mortgage in place, all searches etc. done. We were ready to start discussing a completion date back at the start of April. The seller’s solicitor came back to us at that point saying that the seller was not ready to discuss completion dates as they were still waiting on responses to enquiries regarding their onward purchase (an apartment). The seller told us, when we put our offer in, that there would be no onward chain as they had somewhere to go. They’ve since changed their minds. They’ve been telling us they’ve been waiting on responses to these enquiries for around 3 months now & we don’t seem to be getting anywhere. What, if anything, can we do?! 

Tiglet2

I don't think you can do anything.  You have now found out that there is an onward chain.  Your sellers' are buying a leasehold apartment (leasehold takes longer and typically involves more enquiries) and it is entirely possible that the owners of the apartment also have an onward purchase...... and so on.

fishfingerbutties

They were within their right to change their minds and buy onwards. You are within your rights to a) wait it out or b) find another purchase. 

Rental market is just as crazy as the purchase market in a lot of places, maybe they realised how difficult it would be to actually just rent something. 

Either way until everyone is ready to discuss a date, it's not going to be finalised.