Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Virginia

offers and acceptance

If a buyers makes a written offer on a property and the seller counters orally and then the buyers accept the counter offer orally is the contract enforceable even if the buyers have not initially the price change on the written contract


Asked on 4/10/09, 7:33 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: offers and acceptance

Oral contracts can be legally enforceable, but usually harder to prove that those which are executed in writing. However with respect to contracts involving the sale of real property, all such contracts under Va. Code Sec. 11-1 must be in writing to be enforceable, and therefore the oral counter offer in your question would not be enforceable in this particular instance.

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Answered on 4/10/09, 10:53 pm


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