I accepted an offer on my house mid June and put an offer on somewhere beginning of July. My buyers are first time buyers. My vendors are chain free (moving into rented). We were all working on a 'September' time frame, but that was a loose time frame.
The property I am moving into is empty. The garden is dying. It needs cleaning and sorting. My son can't start his new specialist school (for his additional needs) unless we have moved by the beginning of September (it's in a different borough), so will have to start his old one and then be moved midway, which is going to cause him a lot of emotional issue.
My buyers are using an online solicitors who don't have a phone number. Everything on my end is good to go. We have exchange documents ready, but buyers do not. Buyers also want four weeks notice to give their landlord, and won't give this notice until we exchange (there's no date looming for this).
On top of that, my fixed term mortgage rate of 1.24% ends at the end of August and the new variable rate is 5.4% so it means my mortgage shoots up by over £700. Some of this I will get back if I move out before the end of September. Buyers are saying the end of Sept is their time frame. I'd have liked by end of August. Compromise is mid Sept.
Buyers not having it.
AIBU to push them to compromise here? They are now saying if I push them to complete earlier than the end of the month, they want money knocked off the cost of the house. They won't consider speaking to their landlord about giving soft notice or any other options. If my new house wasn't ready and my variable rate so expensive, I'd pull out of the deal and put the house back on the market.