Exchange has taken place with a completion date agreed - now vendors want to change date

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So we've bought a house, have already exchanged and have agreed on completion of October 1st. Vendors want to change this to October 27th. We absolutely do NOT want this change. What happens now?

they can't. They are now contractually bound. Same as you can't now change the price.

Although if they pay you a lot of money, then, after consulting your solicitor, you might be prepared to arrange something, but be very careful or you might end up having to evict them.

Thank you Piglet. So the house is ours on the 1st regardless, right?

My Mum always says, "If you don't ask, you don't get." There's clearly a spanner in the works of their plan and they're trying to sort it out and thought, it's always worth asking. They must know you hold all the cards. You can politely refuse, explaining clearly, but in a sympathetic tone, that it would cause you a great amount of disruption and you're not prepared to contemplate it. That should be the end of it.

washedup, let me clarify, when we initially put an offer in back on March, there was an unofficial agreement that we would like to complete by August 15th. We then sold our house and moved to a rental property hoping to be here for just a couple of months. Ever since then, they have changed the goalpost every step of the way to fit their own requirements. We've been put through masses of inconvenience but there was nothing we could do. So now that we've exchanged we really do not wish to accommodate them any further as this means nothing but more inconvenience for us and they haven't exactly ingratiate themselves to us. But honestly, we're not refusing out of spite, we really just want to get out of this tiny rental house and get on with our lives.

As others have said you need not concern yourself with it - the contacted date is the 1st Oct - your lawyer just needs to reiterate this. Let them have the hassle of living in rented for a month or so - assuming this is what they want to avoid -it's really nothing to do with your family.