Hi there,

I'm just after a bit of advice or to hear is anyone has ever been through something similar.

We had an offer accepted on a house that we absolutely loved in October and were told at the time that the vendors hadn't found a property yet (despite the fact the house went up for sale in the June). We didn't really mind because some people don't start looking until once they've got a buyer so we left them to it and were told in November that they had 7 viewings lined up so we thought something would come about. We didn't hear anything over Christmas and contacted the estate agent in January where we were told that they still hadn't found anywhere and were still looking.

4 months later we said we were going to put the mortgage offer in and get the surveys done but we we're advised not to do this by the EA and vendor! After this we left them to it for 5 weeks hoping that the EA might contact us with an update rather then us having to chase them every other week but we heard nothing so we contacted them again to be told that the estate agent hadn't heard from them for a while and if we want to move soon we should look elsewhere. Please bear in mind that we have a buyer who we need to keep happy who has luckily been so patient, but our vendors and their estate agent don't seem to care.

So 6 months since our offer was accepted and 0 signs of moving forward anytime soon - we offered them an ultimatum. We would increase our offer by 10k to the asking price on the grounds that we get a completion date set within the next 2 months or we will be withdrawing our offer. This was put to them on Monday. It's now Thursday and we have heard nothing!

I'm getting increasingly fed up, especially because this is the first hurdle and we haven't even got to the hard part yet!

Does anyone have any advise/ similar experience they could share?

Thank you!!