When buying and selling

fannyanna

Should you wait until you have an offer on your property before you make an offer on a property you want to buy?

sonastin

If you can't afford to buy without selling first, you should wait until you've got an offer before making an offer.

Until you are in a position where you can proceed, talking numbers with a potential vendor is just showing your hand in the negotation - you can't go any further than that.

Tell them you'll make an offer when you are proceedable. That way, if you get a low offer on your place, you can go to the vendors and make a low offer in turn. If you've already agreed a high price, you'd have to turn down the low offer and stay where you are for even longer.