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Hi

Thank you for your question and patience, I’m Tom and I’ll try to help you.

It’s a shame but there is not going to be anything that she can do about this.

In house sales/purchases in the UK the sale is “subject to contract” right up until the moment your solicitor and the seller’s solicitors exchange contracts for the sale and this only happens after searches have been obtained and the sellers have answered detailed pre-contract enquiries on the property.

Up until contracts are exchange either party is free to walk away from the sale without the other party being able to sue them. If your sister had suddenly decided to withdraw then she could have done so without fear of being sued by the Seller.

In the circumstances the only thing that your sister can do is 1) consider whether to put a higher offer in for the property or 2) get her solicitor to get in touch with the Seller’s Solicitors and get them to inform the new buyer’s solicitors that you will shortly obtain the searches and will offer to sell them to the buyer so that you don’t lose too much money.

It’s a very, very frequent complaint of parties in a property sale transaction here in the UK, but there is nothing to be done about it unfortunately.


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Kind regards,


Tom