Where a negligent estate agent's breach causes a vendor to enter into a defective contract that ties up the property, the vendor's loss of the commercial opportunity to sell during the tied-up period is assessable by reference to the degree of probability of a sale occurring, applying Sellars v Adelaide Petroleum and Malec v Hutton. The costs of pursuing the defaulting purchaser are recoverable as damages against the negligent agent as loss naturally arising from the breach within Hadley v Baxendale, particularly where failure to pursue the purchaser would have exposed the vendor to a mitigation argument.
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