To expect them to give us more time (house sale related)?

[justcurious40]

Hello. Just looking to see if I am totally barking up the wrong tree here as I have never bought and sold in the UK before and I don't know what the norm is.

So we have found a house we love and put our house on the market in order to buy it. The house we want to buy needs a lot of work, but we love it and are prepared to overlook the problems. It has been on the market over a year and two previous sales fell through.

We were lucky enough to find buyers and all was going well. We forked out on a survey and solicitors and are now down by about 1.5k. Kids are really excited too...

You can see where this is going...!

So our buyers have pulled out and now the estate agent and vendor want to put the dream house back on the market for other people to view.

AIBU to expect them to give us a bit more leeway here? Chains often get a broken link during the house sale business, and it seems a bit trigger happy for them to go back on the market so soon and not give us the chance to get a new buyer. They say they have given us long enough as the sale fell through before Christmas, but we all know that no one goes buying houses while they're tucking into their turkey!

Would it be reasonable for us to ask the vendor to give us a bit more time? What is normal in this situation? Thanks!

We are now approaching mid-January and your sale fell through last month; how many days elapsed before you put yours back on the market and how many viewing have you had? If you really want the house, you need less of the emotive language and comments about your children being excited and more action on the selling front.

Look at it from the other party's point of view. They have had the house on the market for over a year with three sales fallen through. Maybe they gave one of the previous buyers time and were let down so are now trying a different approach.

Why did your buyers pull out ?
Maybe you could renegotiate with them.

We're in the process of selling a house, all set to go through beginning of December & the sale of our buyer's fell through (he'd also had a survey done) & guess what... straight back on the market, without a seconds hesitation!

I did hope they could find another buyer for theirs so they hadn't wasted they're money but not to be, as the sale is now going through with someone else.