We had a contract for the sale of our home from a XXXX who had a letter of pre-qualification for {$650000.00} from SunTrust Bank. The buyer complied with all the requirements were given successful progress reports from the Loan Officer and as per the XXXX XXXX, 2015, purchase agreement surveys were done, inspections were done, small termite was fixed and home tented as per the contract requirement, we moved out and sold our furniture and today, the day before the closing, the Loan Officer at Sun Trust bank called the buyer and notified him that they were soon sending a letter of denial which can not possibly arrive before the closing date on the contract. The buyer was told at the end of last week that the loan officer was schedule to speak to the Chief Underwriter on Wednesday the XXXX to get his approval for approving the loan, but that the bank had added a new condition ( a week before the closing ) that the buyer had to sell his home before the closing to get the loan approved. The buyer was told it was a new rule that the bank had just put in place. A bank loan officer regularly dealing with real estate gives the buyer one week to sell a {$300000.00} plus property. Toda, Thursday the XXXX I received a text from the buyer that the bank Loan Officer told him that he will be sending a denial letter. In the mean time we as sellers had to leave our property for termite tenting required by Sun Trusts before closing ( which killed all the landscaping in the flower planters and makes it impossible to present for sale efforts ), moved out contents, sold our furniture, and the bank seems to bear no liability for disrupting XXXX families, particularly the seller who now has an empty home very hard to present as it is empty and with not furniture or decorations. Are there no regulations on the timing that a bank has to notify the parties officially when a loan is being denied and for what reason and do so timely to allow buyer to resolve the issue and the buyer not to proceed as though the process has no problems that will prevent a closing? If that is the case, it is time for more regulations and not less. 
