Estate agents

[Katosmummy]

Looking for advice on estate agent / sales progressors behaviour. Not moved for many years, we got a cash buyer for our house, and viewed a house listed by our agent. We liked it and had our offer accepted. We were led to believe the chain was very short, turned out to be not the case, and sellers were difficult too, including blinds then decided they wanted £1500 for them etc. So we pulled out and found a chain free house and had an offer accepted. We are communicating with our buyers and the agents sales progressor bombarded them with calls and asked them
to threaten to pull out of purchasing our house to try and force our hand to get us to go back to the house that was on their books (seller had offered to go into rented)
is this ethical ? Does it breach the code of conduct for residential estate agents ?

Doesn't sound very ethical to me.

It sounds like the kind of thing to consider raising a formal complaint about - it's the agent attempting to coerce the buyers to coerce you, really not on at all - but only after your buyers are in, so that they don't face any unpleasant fallout from the agent for having told you about it.

I would make ask to speak to their manager to make a formal complaint.