When four sisters decided to sell their idyllic family home in Devon, they were delighted to learn that Cold Feet actress Helen Baxendale had made an offer for it – one they simply couldn’t refuse.
True, it meant going back on their word to a local fisherman who had already agreed to buy the stunning Grade II listed property, which backs on to the picturesque River Dart.
But Baxendale, who also starred in Friends, was offering £200,000 more than the original agreed price.
The 51-year-old actress even wrote a personal note to say she loved the eight-bedroom Queen Anne home, and how much her three children would enjoy living there.
Helen Baxendale, 51, and her husband film producer David Williams, (pictured together) stopped replying to correspondence about the £1.7 million property purchase in Devon
So the sisters were perplexed when the star and her partner, film producer David Williams, stopped replying to correspondence about the £1.7 million purchase.
And when, with no reason given, the sale fell through, the sisters were left frustrated – and heavily out of pocket.
Now they have expressed their frustration and anger about the couple’s behaviour after they were left ‘high and dry’, and forced to accept a ‘significantly lower’ offer after putting it back up for sale.
One of the sisters, Julie Lynn Evans, a child psychologist, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘We’d already agreed another offer but there was a mortgage on the property which had been taken out to pay for our late father’s care home fees, and it was costing us £8,000 a month.
Because David and Helen offered so much more, and wanted to move really fast, we were happy to accept despite it involving us going back on our word to sell it to another buyer.
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