Have we upset the seller?

Windofchange

It's a story repeated up and down the land I'm sure. Our purchase a couple of years back took 8 months with just three people in our chain as we offered Jan and then C19 happened and our vendor lost her onward purchase and so had to start all over again. Luckily they found and offered on another quick smart, but still, those 8 months dragged. 

All through this, the estate agent was saying all is in order and progressing. What had actually happened with her losing her onward purchase wasn't relayed to us until about 5 months in I threw a similar strop to the one it sounds like you have and it all came out that the chain had fallen apart. I can't imagine any of this got passed onto our vendor, and I imagine the estate agent just said something along the lines of your buyer is asking questions if they passed anything on at all.

Anyway, here we are with the stress behind us two years or so later. It'll work itself out I'm sure.

Lavendyr

No41edwardianhouse said:

Long story short, we were told our seller would break our chain and move mid April. We were told this middle of Feb. We have gone all guns blazing at the purchase as have our buyers. Both our buyers and us are ready to exchange. Today our seller gives back word on breaking the chain. We are furious!!! So, we go and see another house. Not keen and heart still set on first property. There is no other stock…

We are worried we’ve also upset our seller and he will now refuse to sell to us…

thoughts…
help…

No real advice but I hugely sympathise with you OP. We bought from a family who promised to move into rented to enable us to complete and they then got into an onward sale - we were really anxious that they would make us wait but were incredibly fortunate with honest sellers who stuck to our completion timeline and moved out into rented to make it work for us (that was for the stamp duty deadline). If it's your dream home then stick with it, but keep the pressure on - they really won't want to get another chain in place at this stage and they know you are ready to go. You won't have upset them - if anything they should be worried about upsetting you!

TheJP

lookstraightahead said:

Op, terrible behaviour by your vendors. Personally (and I know I'm not you) I would walk. Morally they would have annoyed me too much. What I would do is sell to your buyer and rent yourself. Then at least you're half way there.

if you find it too difficult to rent, then maybe that's what your vendors are thinking, they maybe haven't got the confidence to do so.

can't wait for the market to settle, the general impression that anyone can upset a vendor when the buyer is the customer isn't the right way around.

I don't think its terrible behaviour and certainly don't think it warrants pulling out at this stage. For all we know the vendors family have changed their mind about moving in for a short period, it happens. A rental would unlikely be an option due to the much of the market being minimum 12 month tenancy.