Hello. I have nc as I am a bit paranoid that others on our chain might be on here but will go ahead anyway....
We accepted an offer on our house in November last year after it was on the market for about 2 weeks. We accepted a 95% offer as we wanted to make an offer on a house and our buyers were chain free. Our offer was accepted and everything looked rosy as our sellers were buying a chain free property too.
It's now 5 months later and our buyers are finally in a position to exchange and keen to do so but our sellers purchase looks like it is going pear shaped. It is not completely dead but I spoke to my solicitor today and she said she would advise us to discreetly start looking at other properties.
We live in an area of the country where prices are actually going up (!) so we are a bit worried as we are already at the top of our budget. I keep thinking now that we accepted an offer too soon and too low. We actually had a gazumping offer which we turned down in December which would have been £6K more which would make a big difference to us. I don't know if I am being greedy thinking like this and I know we might not get anyone else to buy our house or another sale could go wrong. On the other hand our buyers might not wait forever and if we put the house back on the market we would be resetting the clock in terms of us finding somewhere new.
Is this really evil? I actually don't know if you can say to someone that because our purchase fell through we want to see if we can get any more for our house. Even typing it out seems wrong! I'm thinking we could get some valuations done but they seem pretty meaningless anyway.
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Should we start again? Seriously fed up!
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AllBoxedUp · 17/04/2013 18:08
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