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Don't want to sell my house

jacknjill258
jacknjill258 Posts: 3 Newbie
in House buying, renting & selling
My partner had an affair, left me and moved out 6 months ago and we have a joint property with a mortgage. I live here with my children (they are not his). I can afford to stay here and I want to but he rejected the figure that I offered him to buy him out. The offer was very good and he would have made a very good profit in the short time we have had the mortgage but he went to see a solicitor and threatened to take me to court to force an order of sale if I didn’t put the house on the market.
So, I put the house on the market and we have now had an offer which I do not want to accept as I don’t want to move. I was hoping that there would be no interest and he would get bored and take my original offer.
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to stay at the property?
Thanks
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  • aneary
    aneary Posts: 921 Forumite
    Let him take you to court.

    As you have offered a good price the court will look at that, as long as it is a good offer he will be made to accept that rather than put the house on the market.
  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,476 Forumite
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    How does your offer compare to the offer you've received (remember EA's costs, etc).
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  • Comms69
    Comms69 Posts: 14,229 Forumite
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    How good was the offer? 50% of equity?
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    Unless the offer you've received is considerably better than what you previously offered your ex, turn it down (calculate te EA fees, legal costs etc).

    Repeat your offer to your ex. Or if the offer you've received is less, then reduce your own offer to your ex.

    Taking you to court will cost your ex in both time and money, and tthe court will look at both the value of the offer you've received and the offer you made your ex before eciding what to do.
  • jacknjill258
    jacknjill258 Posts: 3 Newbie
    He would be making more money on this offer
  • jacknjill258
    jacknjill258 Posts: 3 Newbie
    It was 50% of what we thought it was worth but we put the house on the market for a lot more to give it a go and now someone has offered just under the asking price which will make him a lot more money than what I was originally going to offer him.
  • Scotbot
    Scotbot Posts: 1,546 Forumite
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    Match the offer minus the EA commission
  • ssparks2003
    ssparks2003 Posts: 809 Forumite
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    why can't you put an offer in that is better than the offer on the table?
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,534 Forumite
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    Are you sure this offer is genuine and not somebody set up by your husband?
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  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    Slinky wrote: »
    Are you sure this offer is genuine and not somebody set up by your husband?
    Interesting thought.

    Not sure how OP can find out.......

    But if it IS genuine, then I can understand ex not wanting to accept a lower than market value offer from the OP.
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