My husband and I decided we wanted a Bigger house, We probably did it all backwards but as it stands, we fell in love with a house, the real estate kept ringing us because we were interested, we told her we wont sign a contract until we get some pre-approval from the Bank, and also mentioned we need to sell our house to buy this house, we got the approval, and signed the contract with the Sunset clause in place, we decided to use a different agent hoping it may work in our favour, we had a contract on ours in 2 weeks, which fell through, so we then decided after 2 months to use the same agent we wanted to buy our house from, maybe it might work in our favour?? So my problem is, Our Contract was terminated using the sunset clause as there was another buyer for the house we wanted? it was apparently unconditional etc etc, we were at a loss as what to do as there was nothing on the market we liked, so we had one more open house just in case, well 3 days later the real estate calls and says its crashed, so we kept our house on the Market hoping we can still buy it? One week later our Open house turned out great and we have a buyer, problem is, we bought the house prior to 1st August and the stamp duty was only 14K and now it will be 23k, so the real estate is pressuring me to sell at a lower price (getting shirty) and I said No, not unless we can sign the contract on the house we wanted at the same price, I dont want to sell otherwise, Question is can the vendor re-instate the original contract? I feel the agent just wants us to sell, not caring that we want a house to move into? or she is trying to get me to offer more than my last price, I told her we will just take it off the Market. I also said I want to make sure I have a contract in place before we sign to sell our house. If I have to pay the extra stamp, so be it. It has also cost me a lot to refinance banks, mortgage insurance, keep 20% equity in a house that devalued, pay out a credit card, all up to get this far $30K just because we wanted this house.