House Valuation - Pressure from Agent

eddddy

Charlie1985 said:

The estate agents are dictating the exchange dates as they that’s what the vendor wants. They have said they will put these dates on the sales memorandum.

In your position, I'd assume that the estate agent was passing on a message from a frustrated seller

(And maybe the seller feels they lost face in the battle over price, so they want to win a token victory on exchange dates.)

And the estate agent wants you to say something 'fairly positive' which they can pass back to the seller 


So I'd probably reply with something like...

We're very happy to aim for a exchange in 4 days time. We'll inform our solicitor and mortgage broker. Hopefully they'll be ready in time. But if the solicitor and/or mortgage lender can't be ready in time, the dates might have to slip a bit.

...and give the estate agent an update in 4 days time (probably saying "unfortunately the solicitor and/or mortgage lender aren't ready, so we need a little longer").