Argh! Why do vendors do this?!

[Toddlerteaplease]

Put a property on the market but then not allow viewings.
I've found my dream home but I want to look inside before deciding to take it further or not. But can't get in till next month. Vendor doing work on it, first viewing cancelled as tenants being awkward. I'm looking st other properties as well but don't know if this one is worth hanging on for.

They've got tenants - tenants are obliged to allow viewings. They would do better waiting until the tenants have moved out.

I wasn't bothered about it not being convenient for the tenants as it might have been a genuine reason as They seemed not to know about it. (I briefly spoke to them while doing a recce of the area) It's the vendor now doing work that is annoying. I will know within five minutes wether it's worth waiting for or not. I can see past any mess/ half finished jobs etc

Also looking at a much cheaper house that is also on hold for viewings

Tenants aren't obliged to allow viewings was what I meant

How ridiculous. It's been 10 years since I last bought / sold a house and I still shudder at the memories.

Surely a house isn't technically for sale at all if it isn't ready for viewings..?! Nobody is going to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on something they can't see beforehand are they..??!

I feel your pain OP.

I think it's in my tenancy agreement that I have to allow viewings.

Tenants are not under any obligation to allow viewings.

Doesn't matter what's written in the tenancy agreement if it goes against your common law right to the quiet enjoyment of the place.

Even if it's in the contract that viewings should be allowed, tenants are not obliged to comply, but letting agents will often try it on, and tell them they have to.

'Quiet enjoyment' does not include random strangers traipsing around your home - and it is your home, even if the LL owns it.

I'm a LL and I wouldn't expect my tenants to put up with it. IMO LLs should wait until their tenants have moved out. They could of course offer a fairly substantial reduction in the rent for allowing viewings - I've known someone who's done this, but there was no compulsion to agree.