Buyer has backed out without telling us! How rude!

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Sold house mid September. Had lots of viewers, 4 notes of interest (Scotland) and sold to lovely lady. She put her flat up for sale in nice area, no reason to expect it not to sell, asked us for 4 weeks grace to sell and sign the missives. Think she was asking too much for her property and it hasn’t sold. She took it off the market yesterday, and nobody has bothered telling our solicitors that she’s not proceeding with the purchase. We only found out by accident that her property is no longer on zoopla etc.

I’m gutted. Trying not to take it personally as she was a lovely lovely lady. Her solicitor has really let her/us down.

Market has gone a bit flat now. Not expecting a sale on our property any time soon, as we are now looking at a xmastime move (if at all).

This is just 💩 and wanted a moan.

Maybe she is still planning on going ahead.

She could get a bridging loan or may have come into money from elsewhere so she no longer needs to sell her place first.

I would get the agent or your solicitor to chase her up and ask her what is going on.

How do you know she's not renting it out? Or keeping it?

She might be renting it out , the fact her solicitor hasn't said anything makes me think she's still going ahead .
I think you've jumped to conclusions you need to check with your solicitor.

V sorry your buyer has pulled out.

You don’t know whether or not she’s ‘lovely’. Just initial impressions.

In what way do you think her sol has let her down?

My solicitor has now followed up with hers, and they are pulling out. Bit unprofessional?

@Dozer they took ages to get it onto the market (a good few weeks), so were patently gonna miss their 4 week target. Then they went waaay too high in their asking price. Their neighbours house is £15k less and has an extra bedroom.

We’ve said we are happy to wait, and totally flexible on moving date and gave an extra 3-4 weeks to sign missives. I think we’ve been too soft.

If you're in Scotland I think you can take them to court?

@User478 She didn’t sign the missives, which is what we were flexible on to give her time to sell her property. So I think it’s tough!

We were happy to give a long entry date, as long as the missives were signed. But she obviously got cold feet yesterday and disappeared!

Did you get any other offers, could your solicitor go back to the other notes of interest and see if they are still interested?

It's not up to the solicitor to inform about an aborted purchase, it's the buyer's place to inform your estate agent.

Not so lovely lady!

Bad luck OP, that’s wretched.

But you were way too soft.

I am hazy about the Scottish system but here I wouldn’t accept an offer from anyone whose own house was not under offer.

Ah that's bad
We went to part ex this year and it all went tits up
Communication was dire
Only knew our house had sold when the blokes surveyor rang to make an appt
Only knew something was wrong when surveyor didn't turnup
Only knew it had fallen through when I saw our house back on Rightmove
Then the developer dropped us 1 month after our 'completion' date. We'd sold all our furniture including sofa etc
House is still upside down and half packed up

Yes, we will go back to the other offers, but unlikely they are still looking. Worth a try tho....

@HapHap I didn’t realise that. I thought her solicitor would contact ours when they were taking her property off the market. We would be none the wiser if we hadn’t noticed it was off zoopla.