19 weeks into a purchase and deciding to pull out

AdrianC said:

I'm not sure it's the vendor and their solicitors that are being "challenging".

You're insisting that the way the property's been apportioned before is not acceptable to you, then refusing to pay for the legals to accommodate your insistance.

I do understand your points here. We must look like the challenging ones in several ways.

But, it's not us insisting anything. It's our solicitor who was recommended to us by the estate agent selling the property. So you would assume they recommend someone to us who would make the sale easier, as that benefits the EA and their client. However, I think the EA now regrets their recommendation.

Also, we know nothing of property law, so we're not going to argue the toss with our solicitor for a quick sale if they genuinely think there are issues. It would be remiss to pay for legal advice and then ignore it.

And I will be frank, this issue was brought up at the first round of Enquiries in early March with all the others, but the vendors solicitors refused to engage on the topic or even argue why it wasn't a problem. Their reply was simply "It's not a problem as the deed has been acceptable to people for the past 'x' years". But 'well nobody else had a problem with it' isn't the soundest of legal arguments.

catshark88 said:

Pull out now (if you are going to) and stop messing the vendors about. You have changed your mind, it happens (but you should have thought about your developing careers earlier). 

We aren't messing them about, we have been fully committed to the sale until this very week. Even incurring extra costs for ourselves along the way. We have chased and chased both our and the vendors solicitors but to no real avail. And we absolutely thought about our developing careers, we went into this eyes wide open. It was the right decision to buy it in February. It was still right throughout June. But as time goes on we simply get closer and closer to the time when actually this starts to make less sense.

Crashy_Time said:

If they can get more than you offered why would they care what you do?

I imagine they would care initially, but then if they put it back on the market for more that might ease the pain. And I am being sincere when I say that I believe they could get a better price. Back in Feb there were lots of similar and/or better properties available in the area which meant we could get a good deal. But now, there isn't anything this good and prices of all the properties in the area have gone up. Whether that's a trend that will continue, who knows.


I do appreciate everyone's feedback whether approving or disapproving. It's always good to hear other people's views on it and I'm sure people here have more experience than us as first time buyers. It's always good to balance your own opinions with other peoples, so thank you.