I am looking to relocate to a small town 200 miles away, which has made viewing properties tricky. However, I made an offer on a house a week ago which was accepted. It’s a fantastic property but my one concern when viewed it was that it is on a main route into the town and not set back far from the road. Traffic noise didn’t seem bad on first viewing.
When I made the offer, I asked to book a second viewing as well so that I could take some measurements for furniture, and I drove down again yesterday to do that. When I arrived, the traffic was noticeably worse. Also, as it was such a hot day, the windows were open this time and the traffic noise was evident continually throughout the open plan living area/kitchen and the 2 front-facing bedrooms. 3 double-decker buses rumbled past within 30 mins.
It’s a popular coastal town and I know that the traffic will be much worse in the height of the summer. My heart absolutely sank. As I’d be living alone with no busy family noise around me, and working from home, I feel this would be a big issue with no way to solve it.
I want to withdraw my offer and feel I should do this straight away obviously to allow the vendor to re-market it quickly. But I am also worried because it’s a small town with just a couple of EAs and undoubtedly I will have to deal with this EA again when other properties come up.
Any advice on how best to explain my withdrawal to the EA so that I can still deal with them in the future, as they are obviously going to be peed off with me? Didn’t sleep for worrying about this.