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Landlord showing around buyers in our family home flat :(

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Dragontale · 10/06/2024 11:30

Our landlord wants to sell our flat. We've been here 16 years and are raising our children here.

Firstly, we'd actually like to buy it ourselves and it would be possible for us financially. The reason we didn't ask to buy it was that we didn't realise it was up for sale.

We're gutted. I'd really like some advice from you please.

How can we get the potential buyer to pull out? We'd like to buy the flat ourselves without going into a bidding war.

Not sure if this makes a difference but the landlord is an investment fund, not a private BTL landlord.

AIBU to think we could get the landlord to sell to us instead? And if you know what we could do please let me know

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Octavia64 · 10/06/2024 11:35

Contact the estate agent and tell them you want to buy it.

As it's already on the market your landlord might have already have had offers to buy.

The estate agent will want to confirm that you are serious buyers (ie you actually have the money to buy it) so you would normally need to show that you have a financial capacity to get a mortgage for that amount.

DappledThings · 10/06/2024 11:32

You just need to ask. There isn't a special process. Contact the landlord, make an offer.

Barrenfieldoffucks · 10/06/2024 11:32

Presumably at this stage they're just potential buys taking a look? I'd chat to your landlord, it would save him fees etc