Buying a house from divorced couple, LIES!!!

middleagedriver

kirtondm said:

Almost Certainly it is one of the divorcing parties holding it up but you will probably never know for sure.
Can estate agents exert any pressure?

We are leaning towards this. Estate agent has been as much use as a chocolate fireguard. But they are also working for the sellers, so who knows what’s going on.

lookstraightahead

Divorce is up there above moving house for stress levels. When you combine the two it's difficult, for everyone. Been there. 

dimbo61

Nearly every property sale  now seems to be taking a very long time.
Solicitors are acting for both the buyers and mortgage lenders,
Estate agents want a quick sale as ( Many wont get paid till the sale completes )
Searches, survey, Land registry checks are all taking longer than normal.
Hope your house purchase happens 

middleagedriver

lookstraightahead said:

Divorce is up there above moving house for stress levels. When you combine the two it's difficult, for everyone. Been there. 

I fully understand that a divorce would be horrible. Those stresses are being passed on to us tho as it's been a long 22 weeks and last 5 weeks there has been zero progress all because someone is lying. I understand they probably don't want to lose the sale while they squabble over something (probably equity) so are blaming someone else.

middleagedriver

dimbo61 said:

Nearly every property sale  now seems to be taking a very long time.
Solicitors are acting for both the buyers and mortgage lenders,
Estate agents want a quick sale as ( Many wont get paid till the sale completes )
Searches, survey, Land registry checks are all taking longer than normal.
Hope your house purchase happens 

We are ready to go, nothing to sell, no chain their side and everything our side is now done. We're viewing another house tomorrow just as a plan B. But still hoping plan A happens as plan B is going to cost us thousands more in interest payments.

lookstraightahead

middleagedriver said:

lookstraightahead said:

Divorce is up there above moving house for stress levels. When you combine the two it's difficult, for everyone. Been there. 

I fully understand that a divorce would be horrible. Those stresses are being passed on to us tho as it's been a long 22 weeks and last 5 weeks there has been zero progress all because someone is lying. I understand they probably don't want to lose the sale while they squabble over something (probably equity) so are blaming someone else.

No I completely get you - it's stressful as a buyer too. 

walwyn1978

Bossyboots said:

My divorcing neighbours put their house on the market even though the husband did not want to sell.  He used every trick in the book to thwart the sale and managed to drag it out for months before finally conceding defeat.  Their buyer was under the impression both wanted to sell.

Sounds like our last purchase, the husband did exactly the same thing and we found out later had caused two agreed purchases to collapse. If it hadn’t been for our excellent solicitor I think we’d have been collapse 3..

Monster_mash

middleagedriver said:

Been trying to buy a house for over 5 month now from a couple that have divorced. Have opened direct contact with both sellers, everything seems ok on the surface.

There has been delay after delay, they both keep blaming their solicitor saying they can’t get a hold of them etc. Our solicitor is now blaming the sellers for holding things up, I just don’t know which one is lying.

We are both using a large conveyancing company that are based in Leicester (those who know know) which have awful reviews on TrustPilot. But we have actually used our conveyancer before and they were spot on and still are now to be fair, we just don’t know how much we trust the sellers solicitor.

Anyone had this before, what did you do?

P.S. We would have pulled out ages ago if it wasn’t for having a low interest mortgage offer in place. 

Doing things quickly relies on both of them wanting the money.  Chances are if they say their solicitor is holding things up and your solicitor says the same, chances are that is the problem.  

We had the same problem, except the vendor’s solicitor dragged their feet, when the vendors chased them up, they blamed us.  Even held up on the moving day.  2 and a half years later we look back and laugh

badger09

middleagedriver said:

dimbo61 said:

Nearly every property sale  now seems to be taking a very long time.
Solicitors are acting for both the buyers and mortgage lenders,
Estate agents want a quick sale as ( Many wont get paid till the sale completes )
Searches, survey, Land registry checks are all taking longer than normal.
Hope your house purchase happens 

We are ready to go, nothing to sell, no chain their side and everything our side is now done. We're viewing another house tomorrow just as a plan B. But still hoping plan A happens as plan B is going to cost us thousands more in interest payments.

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you tell the EA & both vendors that in view of the ongoing delay, you are looking at other properties. Hopefully that will flush out whoever is causing the delay.

middleagedriver

Monster_mash said:

middleagedriver said:

Been trying to buy a house for over 5 month now from a couple that have divorced. Have opened direct contact with both sellers, everything seems ok on the surface.

There has been delay after delay, they both keep blaming their solicitor saying they can’t get a hold of them etc. Our solicitor is now blaming the sellers for holding things up, I just don’t know which one is lying.

We are both using a large conveyancing company that are based in Leicester (those who know know) which have awful reviews on TrustPilot. But we have actually used our conveyancer before and they were spot on and still are now to be fair, we just don’t know how much we trust the sellers solicitor.

Anyone had this before, what did you do?

P.S. We would have pulled out ages ago if it wasn’t for having a low interest mortgage offer in place. 

Doing things quickly relies on both of them wanting the money.  Chances are if they say their solicitor is holding things up and your solicitor says the same, chances are that is the problem.  

We had the same problem, except the vendor’s solicitor dragged their feet, when the vendors chased them up, they blamed us.  Even held up on the moving day.  2 and a half years later we look back and laugh

Sorry original post is maybe a bit confusing. Our solicitor is being told by the sellers solicitor that the sellers are holding things up. But I asked the vendors directly what's going on they keep blaming their solicitor. Hence which one is lying. It's all a mess at the minute which should be a fairly simple transaction as there is no chain.