Aargh going through house sale from hell. Long sorry

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We accepted an offer £20k under the asking price in October after being on the market for 15 months with no offers.
Our purchaser said he was a cash buyer and an investor. We stupidly thought we would have a quick sale.
Two weeks later we found a lovely house and our offer was accepted. So far so good.
Then we find the house we are buying needed an equity transfer before they could proceed so this delayed us by 12 weeks.
All the time our purchaser was fine doing all the searches etc.
In the middle of January we signed all the paperwork thought we were going to exchange the following day only to be told our purchaser was now remortgaging a property so would be delayed by a couple of weeks.
So come the middle of February we get a phonecall to say now he needs to mortgage our house so a surveyor comes out does survey.
A week later I get another phonecall to say the first surveyor wasn't approved by the mortgage company so another survey needs doing.
So that was done fast forward 2 weeks and our purchasers solicitor starts talking dates we stupidly raise our hopes of exchange this week.
Then today get a phonecall to say there is a problem on the survey. This is the same survey that was came back fine when it was done 3 weeks ago.
I am loosing the will to live over this. If it wasn't so important for my dcs I would pull out of this sale.
Have any of you had any horrible sales that have ended well?

What are the Estate Agents doing in all this?

If I ring them they chase it up.

Oh You poor things.
No experiences to share as we have never moved home (yet) but I can imagine how stressed you feel.

Poor you. We had a nightmare time selling last year, but not entirely because of the purchaser - we were about to exchange (all far too easy thus far, of course ) and our next door neighbour served us with a Party Wall Notice because he'd decided to build a basement. Fair enough (though it was the first in our road, so controversial, plus he knew we were selling so could have asked if it would be more convenient to wait a week maybe...) but of course, we had to tell our purchaser. Then followed a mad six months of Party Wall surveys (without which our purchaser would have pulled out), arguments about costs (we paid a part of our neighbour's costs in the end, though we shouldn't have had to), etc etc.

Long story short, we completed in September having accepted the offer in March...oh god, the relief! The neighbour and the purchaser are still arguing, apparently, but we're happy now

Good luck, hang in there and find out what the new problem is - fingers crossed for you.