Unfortunately consumer coinfidence went for a ***** on this project long ago. You could expect as a project like this nears its completion that many more buyers that have been sitting in the wings but have not put down a deposit would then pony up and jump in at the last minute. It appears that this wiill not be the case here, no confidence, no additional money (deposits), hurts everyone involved.
All due to lack of communication on the part of the vendor.
I'm sure the constant scrutiny here on the forum did not help either.