We had offer accepted on our house end of March. Was on market at £450k and had 5 great offers, went with 3rd best offer of £467k as were told the couple were just about to exchange on the house they were selling. We are moving to Scotland (from England) and were up front that we couldn't move out until the end of July (Partner leaving teaching). Due to the Scottish buying system we can't offer on houses up there until we have legally exchanged in England. We asked for a long period between exchange and completion and were told no problem with exchange date set for 30th May and completion 7 weeks later. Couple were happy to move into their parents home and wait for us.
All was going great and were all set to exchange when the buyers buyers sale fell through and everything stopped. Fast forward 3 weeks and the house at the bottom has found a cash buyer and the solicitors say we are on track to complete at the end of July as planned. Obviously we will no longer have our 7 weeks between exchange and completion to find a house, offer and complete (it generally takes just 4-6 weeks in Scotland). We have asked our agent to contact the buyers and ask them if there is any scope for them still moving into their parents and giving us at least 6 weeks to find a home and move out. We have explained that it would be a nightmare having to find temporary accomodation, put all our furniture into storage and also pay for removals twice. Our agent it waiting to speak to our buyers.
My question is, should we offer them some sort of sweetener? From our point of view, when they notified us that they sale was on hold we told them we were totally commited to them and would wait for it to be sorted. We also had 2 better offers (one over £13k more) but picked them because they were due to exchange (they are also very lovely). We were thinking of offering to take £2000 of the asking price. Any advice or thoughts?