Note of Interest on English property

princeofpounds

If you'd seriously wanted to buy it and were in a position to proceed, then you would have made an offer on it anyway though, wouldn't you ? As you didn't, then I don't see any reason why the seller would feel the need to keep you informed of anything...

Think you are totally missing the point. It was the seller's agent who stated that he would be informed, and more than that, that there was a legal obligation to do so.

So the query is not morally whether the vendor HAS to tell him anything, but whether what the OP WAS told was correct.

olias

My opinion (for what it's worth:D), is that legal or moral issues aside, surely it should be common courtesy on the part of the EA to inform the OP.

I have a property I am interested in, but i have yet to sell my own. I have noted my interest to the EA, but stated I will not be in a position to consider an offer until I get one on my own. I have asked them to keep me informed re this other property and would be seriously pi55ed off, if they did not have the simple common courtesy to let me know if anything did happen with it. In this market surely it is in the EAs interest to keep potential customers sweet?

Olias

G_M

princeofpounds wrote: »

Think you are totally missing the point. It was the seller's agent who stated that he would be informed, and more than that, that there was a legal obligation to do so.

So the query is not morally whether the vendor HAS to tell him anything, but whether what the OP WAS told was correct.

The OP was told a load of codswollap by the agent.

The agent does not have to do anything other than what his client (the vendor) instructs him to do.

princeofpounds

The agent does not have to do anything other than what his client (the vendor) instructs him to do.

Yes.

But once again, the OP never really suggested anything of the sort. All they did is ask

a) was it codswallop or not
b) and IF not, should they have expected the agent to abide by it.

So I was mystified with people seemingly behaving in a hostile manner to the OP who asked an honest and fair question given their experiences and level of knowledge.