So, trying to cut a long story short. We put our house on the market about 3 months ago and found a buyer about 7 weeks later (after we'd reduced it because it was overpriced). We hadn't had an awful lot of viewings, probably about 6/7 and had 2 offers.
Anyway, since then we found our dream home (sigh), made an offer about 2 weeks ago, had it accepted...
So we've been ticking along with getting valuations, solicitors bits and bobs sorted and then yesterday we had a bombshell - our buyer is pulling out due to personal reasons. Apparently they were meant to be relocating and aren't anymore. Gutted isn't the word. We've tried to persuade our seller to let us have a grace period of 2 weeks to find a new buyer with our offer still on the table, but they've said no and they're relisting. Absolutely understandable and to be honest 2 weeks was always going to be a massive stretch/unlikely anyway...
Our agents have been pretty pessimistic about our chances of even finding an offer like we did before, let alone quickly. DH has been asking what can be done and what they'd advise us, and they apparently sound massively disinterested. We've had some issues with them previously, where they've been slow to correct errors on the listing, hard to get in touch with, difficult to work with at points etc.
DH now saying we should ditch them and just find a new agent. I'm reluctant, simply because I feel like, with that process possibly taking a little while, our slim chance of finding a buyer to get dream house back is even more unlikely. Do I just need to kiss that dream goodbye and agree to find a new agent?