I think our buyer is going to pull out!

[FrozenMargarita17]

Had our house on the market since July. Buyer comes round 3 times before making an offer and tries to under-offer. We were already 30k under what we were valued at so we said we couldn't go any further. He agreed this price. He pushed and pushed for a completion date of 6th February saying it must be by then and has now text my husband at 9:30 tonight saying he is worried about Brexit. We don't know if he is going to pull out.

Last week he was in the house for an hour and forty minutes measuring stuff.

I am furious and so upset. the house we are buying is perfect, it was a cross country move so I had handed in my notice at work and at dd's nursery. The person we are buying off is already in a rented property. Our house isn't in a good viewing state anymore because we have packed up most of our stuff so it looks really bare and rubbish.

Not sure what I wanted really - just to vent some frustration I suppose! Has anyone got any reassurance or stories similar that turned around ok?

I'm aware he's legally allowed to do so but it's just so arrrrgghhhh

Oh no, must be so stressful. Hopefully he was just chancing his arm a for a reduction in price due to Brexit?

Oh no! I must admit I did pull out of a house once but it was an inheritance property and had serious damp and subsidence.

The house I live in went to exchange and the buyer pulled out, leaving the vendors in a state because they needed to relocate. We offered 5k under asking (£325k house, so not a pisstake offer) on the understanding we'd exchange within six weeks. Arses needed kicking to achieve it but we did it.

Who knows, you might lose this one but there could be someone better round the corner. Fingers crossed for you.

Have you not Exchanged yet?

House chains are such a fucking nightmare. My housemove was utterly ghastly. So I feel for you.

But I'm afraid you were foolish to hand in your notice before exchange. Nothing is guaranteed until then, and people are bastards.

Do you have a date set for exchange?

We were due to exchange on Friday.

We don't depend on my wage, in fact my wages pay for dd's nursery and not much else but it's so frustrating. Because we were moving so far away I couldn't still be working for weeks after completion.

@MorningsEleven see that sounds like a good reason to pull out. Ours is almost new and nothing came up on the survey that was concerning!

Ok, first things first, don’t reply to the text. Do you have an Estate agent? If so, forward the text to them. They will want the sale to go through and can take over all communications from now on.

Our most recent move, our buyers’ buyer was blowing hot and cold, stringing us all along. The two proper estate agents in the chain were brilliant (not the online ones, who were all useless). Our buyers did put their house back on the market, told their buyers this is what they were doing, had a viewing while they were all boxed up, got a low offer, told the original buyers they would go with the new buyers if they didn’t exchange immediately, and that was enough to spur them to exchange.

@HeddaGarbled thank you for this! We text our estate agent last night so we're hoping she can step in and save the day. Fingers crossed !