Scotland-Can an EA still allow viewings 1 1/2 wks after accepting offer?

Robert_Sterling_3

It is not all over until thenon average size lady sings.
In this case the lady sings when, and not before, the contracts ar exchanged.

Thus Gazumping and Guzundering are allowed.

When my son bought a flat in london the seller reqired a non refundable deposit of £1,000 on the day the flats were first open for viewing.

jenniferfluff29

The difference is that I am in Scotland not England (see previous post by googler for law society of scotland's guidelines) . Once an offer is accepted, solicitors should not be accepting other offers. But a seller (or buyer) can pull out up until missives are concluded.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

When we bought this house we had already lost three other houses because the estate agents refused to put houses as"under offer" after our offers on them had been accepted.
With the house we have the estate agent selling for us was also selling for my vendor.We had already sold our house and yet they still kept ringing with lots of viewings(I said no) and asking me to go look at other houses.With our purchase, even after I had instucted a solicitor and run up a large bill I found out that they were still sending round prospective buyers right up to the day before our exchange.
If our vendor had pulled out then we would have had a huge bill with our solictor.
Is it any wonder people hate estate agents.

googler

"He doesn't think that scottish EA's have to comply with any ombudsman but advised that I should speak to the OEA for full facts"

I humbly disagree. 'UK' includes Scotland.

JHWilts

When we bought our house I stipulated that with immediate effect they must remove it from advertising and if we found out they had not done so - including continuing to show others the house - we could charge them back our legal costs. They accepted this, when I noticed the for sale sign was still there, I raised it with them and they removed it immediately. We did and do have a very good relationship with them though which is unusual for EAs!

HockeyDuo8083

Sorry to hear your story Jennifer. We are in the final stages of purchase just now. At the beginning the EA still had the house on the internet even though they had accepted our offer. We had to wat until they had accepted our offer formally by letter before they took it off market.
Luckliy for us they had agreed to not show it to anyone else or accept other offers and have stood by their word. We had stipulated this from the beginning. Our solicitor said it was considered 'bad form' for EA's/Vendors to continue viewings when they have accepted an offer.

Hope you get things sorted, good luck.

RetroBob

I have suspicions that the EA of the house I'm buying is doing this; whilst it is SSTC, they have moved it to available once, and back again when I complained, they then changed the description a little as well a few days later. I'm going to send them an email tonight from an alternative account and see what they're up to. One of my conditions was that it be removed from sale and there be no further viewings.

Sunshine12

I used to be an estate agent in scotland a number of years ago and this was not allowed to happen. Once even a verbal offer had been accepted that was it and we would never even allow viewings following an offer being verbally accepted. We would advise them that a written offer required to be submitted straight away as otherwise there was nothing to confirm that they would proceed. Its definately not like the English system where you can be exchanging formal letters but someone can outbid you until its concluded (exchanged). Your solicitor should know what the situation is. There are a number of solicitors and estate agents in scotland that are pretty useless though. I still deal with alot of them now (albeit in different capacity). Id be intrigued to know who the EA was.

googler

It might be libellous for the OP to name and shame, but there's a couple of clues in OP's posts. That's all the help you'll get from me tonight.

spinning_hamster_wheel

don't have much to add to googlers excellent advice, but please report the other solicitor to the Law Society if you possibly can, it really !!!!s up their day and is an awful lot of paperwork and hassle for the solicitor/firm in question.