Advice needed please:
We and the chain behind us are ready to exchange, having got our ducks in a row quickly cos the person we’re buying from is moving to a new build and apparently wanted to move asap having had previous purchases fall rough. The new build is now running behind schedule (they just told us that last week), and despite marketing their house as chain free and saying they’d rent, our seller is now stalling. They rejected the completion date we’d offered of next week, then when we told them we need to be in by the end of the month (we are relocating for jobs, so we can’t make the first 2 weeks of October work to move, and our buyer is renting) they (supposedly) told the estate agent they’d accept it. But their (terrible, all the way through) solicitor is now avoiding the question (despite all they need to do being get sign off on the finalised contracts) and has been totally ambiguous about whether they’re working towards that proposed completion date, 9 days away from it.
Meanwhile I’m tearing my hair out, trying to sort removals and packing and arrangements for school in a new place for my 2 small kids, with zero certainty.
Is there anything we can do, that’s not a total unnecessarily horrible power move?! I feel we (and the chain behind us) have all been reasonable and the seller is now just taking the mick, but I will listen to being told otherwise.