Please help if you can. My DH and I are in a bit of a state.
We are buying a new build house and had sold our current house back in June. At the time of house sale the buyers were told, as we were, that our house would be built and ready in oct, nov or dec. our buyers said at the time they would wait. All fine.
Time has rolled on and after a lot of chasing etc we are all ready to exchange today with completion at end of nov. This evening we get a call from the estate agents saying our buyers are pulling out as the 'date had moved'. We were very perplexed as there had never been a date given.
Then the estate agent said that our builders had told then the 27 October. Which is total lies. We see the builders a couple of times a week and they would never have given that date. They refused to give us, their clients, a date. So they would never have given a date, and an unrealistic one at that! To our buyers.
We should add that after they closed out sale we began to severely distrust out agents. However as they had sold the house there wasn't a lot we could do.
We believe that the agents have been spinning our buyers a lie about an earlier date and have now had to tell the truth on attempted exchange and so it has all fallen through.
Do we have any legal leverage around them lying about these dates?
They do not have ANY documents with this supposed agreed October date on them. We really trust out builders and they have shown us documents and emails from our agents in the past when they beloved the agents were being sneaky. We do not trust our agents.
What can we do?
Thanks for reading this far!