We’ve been trying to sell our house for a year, our cash buyer made an offer in September (it’s now January) £5k under what we wanted and we accepted. We found a house to buy but turns out the seller has literally polished a turd. The property had spray foam in the loft and it took 2 months to persuade the seller to remove (no mortgage - no purchase!) we then had a survey completed and the property needs an entirely new roof, has ongoing movement, damp, needs new windows, has a lack of underfloor ventilation, needs new guttering has had a total re-wire but no electric certificate - the list is endless with so many red flags. We withdrew from the sale yesterday and made an offer on a new, bigger, more expensive property. Our offer hasn’t yet been accepted but we can offer asking is necessary (we went £2.5k under asking so we can afford the double legal fees comfortably - not that this is their problem) and if they accept our offer they’re looking to buy a vacant property so the chain would end with them. My worry is that we will lose our buyer. We need all the money from her offer but is there anything we can do to keep her on side/show her that we are very much keen to sell?