From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Estate agent question...
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:10:13 GMT

nospam wrote:

> ...OK, so not directly finance related, but how likely is it that an
> estate agent will reveal why the previous purchaser ditched the purchase
> at draft contract stage? I'm getting worried that it was due to a bad
> survey and I'm just about to arrange mine and thought I could save the
> hassle if the estate agent would just say - "oh because they couldn't
> afford it anymore" or something like that. I guess my question is whether
> estate agents sworn to secrecy on this point? Thanks.

In general an estate agent wouldn't know.  The agent is acting for the
seller, after all, and if the buyer pulls out he doesn't need to
give a reason.