I’m not a mum, but you lot are a font of knowledge so here goes. I’m a young widow who has just relocated to Northumberland from Gloucestershire. I thought I’d found a really good house on a new build site up here, but the developers have become increasingly aggressive, asking for money before exchange, and bullying me and my solicitors to rush exchange along. It’s leaving an increasingly bad taste and I’m seriously questioning whether or not I want to be living on a site managed by them for the next few years - mine would be the first house sold and moved into, or whether I look elsewhere for an older house without the distress that this is causing. It’s only been 4 years since my husband died at the age of 37, and I really can’t be doing with this nonsense right now. I used to work in high end law but there are ways of doing business, and the developer is certainly not doing it that way. Do I just roll with the punches, or move on? I’m a cash buyer so I’m surprised they’re treating me this way, but that would put me in a good position with buying an older property. Thanks in advance.