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Introduce a law which makes it legally binding to put an offer on buying a house

Submitted on Monday 8th June 2020

Rejected on Thursday 23rd July 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Introduce a law which makes it legally binding to put an offer on buying a house

Petition Details

Moving house is already stressful enough. But introducing this law we can stop buyers pulling out. And if they do costs can be recovered by the sellers. This will also help stop chains collapsing after people have offered on multiple houses to later decide what house they would like.

Additional Information

By introducing this law it could make buying and selling less stressful. Stop people easily breaking chains causing stress for multiple people. And allow sellers to have the peace of mind that if a buyer pulled out they will not have to pay out for already completed work.
This could help the housing market by freeing up houses much quicker as chains are not constantly being broken.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition instead: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323521

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