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Estate agent taking advantage?

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AnneShirley18 · 13/07/2025 19:28

Hi, my estate agent coincidently owns the other flat on my floor. I ran into bother when I went to sell my flat two years ago. It turns out, I have no lease plan and to make matters worse, the other flat's lease plan shows it to be where mine is. (Yes I will be pursuing thus matter with the original conveyancing solicitors.)
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It has been an absolute nightmare. I have required my estate agents full cooperation in seeking a deed of variation. While he has had to cooperate, he has not paid out any money. That's a separate long chapter in my nightmare!
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This process is coming to
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an end soon and we should be able to submit revised lease plans to land registry soon. With this in mind, I have approached estate agent to put flat back on market. He's said that's fine but he'll need to send out new agreement paperwork. I feel very strongly that he will up the commission percentage that we previously agreed because he knows he has me over a barrel. I won't go into why I think this but thete have been a few professionally grey areas in our dealings.
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What can I do if this happens? Nothing until after I have my new lease plan and my flat sold right?
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Thanks in advance
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Crazymayfly · 13/07/2025 23:34

If you don’t like the commission he’s charging then use another agent. Maybe wait until the DoV has been sorted out first though.

Just to check - did you sign an agreement with the agent previously? If so, you need to see what that says about cancelling that contract that you have with them.

AnneShirley18 · 14/07/2025 00:38

I put this post in "Property" too. Didn't realise it had pasted funny.
Thanks for your reply. Yes that's what I wanted to do but with the way the market is I thought I'd better get it on soon. I have to complete by last week in November or I will lose the chance to claim stamp duty back on current property. Three years have passed since this mess began. It is exhausting.

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