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Problem with Estate Agent
marshy86
Posts: 3 Newbie
Hi everyone hope you can help me and my wife out.
About a month ago we found and fell in love with a house but as we were about to put her parents house on the market (unfortunately they both passed away last year) we thought we would wait till it's on the market for a week or two before we put an offer on this house.
But because we were interest Mrs Marshy went in and spoke to the EA and asked if they had anybody interested or likely to put an offer in if they could please ring us to let us know and we will weigh up our options.
Well yesterday i went onto to right move and lo and behold it had been sold. Where do i stand can i phone them up tomorrow and ask what it sold for and am i too late to put an offer in as we were going to this week anyway.
We are both really angry that the estate agent never rang us or told us that people were interested.
Cheers
About a month ago we found and fell in love with a house but as we were about to put her parents house on the market (unfortunately they both passed away last year) we thought we would wait till it's on the market for a week or two before we put an offer on this house.
But because we were interest Mrs Marshy went in and spoke to the EA and asked if they had anybody interested or likely to put an offer in if they could please ring us to let us know and we will weigh up our options.
Well yesterday i went onto to right move and lo and behold it had been sold. Where do i stand can i phone them up tomorrow and ask what it sold for and am i too late to put an offer in as we were going to this week anyway.
We are both really angry that the estate agent never rang us or told us that people were interested.
Cheers
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Where do you stand?
You made an informal, non-legally binding request of the EA, and you're 'angry' because they didn't follow your request.....?
You say you 'fell in love' with the house, but you didn't want to offer right away. Does it seem reasonable that another also 'fell in love' with it, and made an offer.
"You Snooze, You Lose"0 -
Where do you stand?
You made an informal, non-legally binding request of the EA, and you're 'angry' because they didn't follow your request.....?
You say you 'fell in love' with the house, but you didn't want to offer right away. Does it seem reasonable that another also 'fell in love' with it, and made an offer.
"You Snooze, You Lose"
as in where do i stand in making a counter offer? is that okay to do or is it classed as a done deal?0 -
You want to gazump the other party's offer?
How would you feel if you'd put the offer in first, and someone did that to you?0 -
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It depend on you, you will be the one to make a deal of it.0
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What do you actually want from this?0
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The lesson you have learned here is that he who hesitates has lost."You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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Seems to be alot of support for the agent not doing what they said they would ? If it was me selling I would want all interested partys involved, the people in pole position at the moment could be time wasters who knows. And when did gazumping become such a taboo ? If it's the house you want, and you are in a position to proceed, put your offer in and make sure it gets passed on ! There are no rules.0
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COLOURBOUNCE wrote: »Seems to be alot of support for the agent not doing what they said they would ?
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There are no rules.
If there's no 'rules', as you suggest, why should the agent be under any obligation to do so?0 -
Where do i stand can i phone them up tomorrow and ask what it sold for and am i too late to put an offer in as we were going to this week anyway.
Are you in a position to buy? Mortgage offer in place? Deposit? No other property to sell?Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac
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