Offer rejected, thoughts on how we should proceed?

aqueoushumour01

i would insist that they show no one else around once you have paid for the survey as this shows you are financially committed.

KateLiana27

rachel31a wrote: »

Is this standard practice?

The vendor is perfectly entitled to do this unless he/she has agreed otherwise. We made it a condition of our offer that all further viewings were cancelled immediately and the property marked as Sold STC including on websites/Rightmove. The vendor accepted, but they didn't have to (in which case our offer would not have stood - we were very cautious about reducing our gazumpage-risk as it was a very well priced house!) It's difficult to put on conditions after the offer has been accepted though, so you're relying on the vendor being accommodating.

I agree that asking for no further viewings after you have booked and paid for your survey is reasonable at this stage (you can book and pay for a survey immediately over the phone so there's no reason to delay this).

myhouse_2

Shame you didn't follow Money Spending Expert Hamish's advice - you could have spent another 10k!

geoffky

hamish is a debt junkie who is blinded by what's going on in the real world...i remember him when he was one frightened man and will be again.
this post should be a lesson to anyone who thinks he is more than a chancer..

farmerboy

rachel31a wrote: »

I've just rang the estate agent to confirm that we'll be instructing a solicitor/applying for a mortgage this week and will pass on the details when we do. I mentioned about wanting the house being flagged as under offer on the website and rightmove and he said that they will do that but the seller has requested that if anyone shows interest to still show them around until our survey is completed. Is this standard practice?

Same as has been mentioned above really. We're selling a property and had a offer at the lowest we would accept, we made acceptance a condition that it stayed on the market until the survey had been done, but we also said we would accept any new viewings either.

They had they survey done and backed out, not because of any problems with the survey, but because of the 'cover my back' stuff the surveyor put in.

TBH, we would do this again on any offer near our lowest point.

rachel31a

I suppose we understand that they may be wary in case we drop out but we're worried now about spending out and then loosing it. We've decided to arrange our own homebuyers survey for Monday and just take the standard valuation option from the mortgage lender. That way it will be done quickly and off the market asap.