0 to refuse to sell a house that you own to someone you have agreed to sell it to, and to sell it instead to someone who offers to pay more for it: --
1 to refuse to sell a house that you own to someone you have agreed to sell it to, and to sell it instead to someone who offers to pay more for it: --
He can obtain no answer from the building firm about whether his plot will be gazumped.
I agree that if people pay for structural surveys and building society surveys and then find that they are gazumped, such money is wasted.
I accept that he believes that by speeding up the process, gazumping will be less likely—he has just referred to that again.
Governments of both major parties have regretted the existence of gazumping in the past but, regrettably, they have done very little about it.
However, no schemes have found widespread support as methods of bringing gazumping to an end.
I have great sympathy with those who find themselves gazumped because of such practices.
Effectively that motion has been gazumped by people queue-jumping by introducing a writ this morning.
We believe the answer to the problems caused by gazumping lie in increasing transparency and speeding up the home buying and selling process.
