estate agents and buyers

[vxsmithers]

long story short...

the guy who was buying my place has turned round a week before exchange and decided not to buy. Ignoring the fact he is a complete for leaving it so long, I have a few other issues

My current EA has also proven what a tool he is by getting it back on the market with a total lack of urgency, and general attitude of his staff is they couldn't care less.

So tomorrow he is being binned and a new agent to be put in place asap.

The crux of this is that I haven't told my buyers EA yet as I was hoping to get another buyer in place before I had to, cushioning the blow. This clearly isn't going to happen now so going to phone them tomorrow. How would you word this whilst still trying to look keen on buying?

I really don't want to lose the house, but can't see them agreeing not to re-market on the hope I get a buyer quick. Suppose the only advantage I have is that there wasn't huge interest 3 months ago so they may get no offers

I used to think the scottish system was ste, but now it seems rather appealing

[Puggit]

First thing you do in the French system is sign legal documents committing to buy with large fines in place.

Simples...

[randlemarcus]

Puggit said:

First thing you do in the French system is sign legal documents committing to buy with large fines in place.

Simples...

When you say first thing... Is it really first thing, i.e. before you've had a survey? We have a very similar system with exchange of contracts, it just happens at the end of our process, rather than the beginning, which I suspect is there to protect against scary surveys that say "nicely painted, but its all brick dust underneath the wallpaper"