We're selling & buying. We think our buyer is going to try to renegotiate the price, we're 5 weeks following accepting the offer they made - £15k below asking price because we saw a house we wanted to buy. Now they want a survey (they've had once already). Only now they want another, (no issues brought up with the first). The surveyors have booked in two weeks time.
Our agent who is handing both our sale & the buyers sale as well as their purchase on our property have been slack throughout. Putting pressure to remove our house from the market right at the beginning of marketing it, for a buyer not even on the market. This buyer they seem to earmark for our house, and it is them that eventually did sell theirs & are buying our house. Couldn't help feeling that they have engineered this somehow.
On the upside we're ready to go, mortgage in place & our purchase house is empty, all searches completed survey done no issues.
But. I cannot bear our agent, they give the impression that they're working for our buyers, I've made this plain to them but they don't change. We knocked our house price down & because of their lack of coordination almost lost the house we want to buy.
I want to remove myself from the contract with them - obviously we don't want to upset our sale, & I don't think it would, the notice period would cover the sale but I'm thinking if the buyer tries to renegotiate we won't be dropping anymore, & we would then need to remarket & want to do this elsewhere. There's a 6 month period where if we exchanged within that period following sale with other agent we'd have to pay a percentage to them should we sell to someone they introduced, so we're thinking of handing notice in sooner rather than later.
My heckles go up every time they call I just have no faith whatsoever in them. Yes they sold our house but there was so many mistakes & unnecessary stress. It was a total circus.
Any advice appreciated