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To change our current house purchase law

Submitted on Sunday 13th March 2022

Rejected on Thursday 31st March 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

To change our current house purchase law

Petition Details

To change our current law in which sellers can drop out at the last minute resulting in financial loss for the buyer having had paid solicitors, surveyors and other fee's which they may incur. This would also prevent gazumping.

Additional Information

To eliminate the practice of gazumping.
In addition, to eliminate a purchaser wasting thousands of pounds on a house purchase when the sellar backs out of a deal last minute.


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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 which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/611430

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