Legal question about oral agreement?

Questioner

Hello, We have verbally agreed to buy a piece of land from the neighbors but now we are suddenly not allowed to buy it anymore. Is this allowed?

Lawyer

If there is only the purchase of a piece of land, then a verbal agreement is also legally valid. The question is whether you can prove that a purchase agreement has been reached, because that is usually the problem with verbal agreements.

Lawyer

No, not if there is a purchase agreement, that is to say that the buyer has made an offer that has been accepted by the seller. But you are actually stating that it was not yet that far, then there is a pre-contractual phase. It depends very much on how far the parties were with talking about sales and agreements, without mentioning a price, whether you can enforce this yes/no. Then there is also a problem of evidence if everything has been verbal up to now.