We've been gazumped and I'm distraight!

Doozergirl

It happened to us twice in row a few years back. The first place was so horrendous I thank God we didn't buy it. It was dingy, the road was impossible to park on and the area was really taking a nose dive, but I was won over by living within a mile of the house I grew up in as a child.

The second place was lovely and we knew it was underpriced, so I guess there wasn't a big surprise. I do sometimes still think about the original features, though we wouldn't have had a garden and we had a tiny baby.

The place we eventually bought had the most beautiful garden and we took bigger steps in the whole property developing thing. We fixed the flat and spent many nights eating indian takeaways and watching property ladder :rotfl:

You will find somewhere better - most people seem to find their 'dream house' fairly quickly, so the dream really can't be that exclusive. I view a house at least once a month that has me allocating bedrooms for the children and imagining what they'd get up to!

It's the people close to you that make happiness, not bricks and mortar

Headintheclouds_3

kingkano wrote: »

Wishing evil on the buyers is a bit wrong.... its the vendor that has chosen to allow you to be gazumped remember. Wish all your evil onto them!!

I wish I could 'thank' this one a few more times - it's spot on.

Sorry to hear that you lost your house - something else will come up.

Anu

Thankyou all for being so sweet, I'm still gutted today and was actually viewing a property really near the one we've just lost last night and saw the vendors and desperately wanted to run over and beg them to sell us their house!
Daft I know!!
I'm not wishing evil on anyone but I will confess to a secret longing for their purchase to fall through so we can have the house! (not so secret now is it!)

Maybe something else will come up....i really hope so! it'd just to hard to objective about a new place when you've had your heart set on somewhere else.....Oh well onwards and upwards! And if any of you have a great house in Windsor you want to sell us for a knockdown price then let me know!!!
Thanks again!

mrsc_4

It is gutting when it happens BUT I believe that everything happens for a reason, get viewing other houses straight away and you will find something much better which you will love more than the house you lost.

What goes around comes around

Good luck

jmd355

They may have offered 10k over the asking price but if they're having a mortgage the house still has to value up when the surveyor goes round!! They may find its just not worth the amount they've offered!

cattie

My commiserations. The same thing happened to me a few years ago with the house I now live in. I'd offered the asking price which was accepted, then about 3 or so weeks down the line someone who'd viewed prior to me but hadn't sold her property at the time sneekily wrote to the vendor offering to top my offer by £10,000 after she got a buyer for her place. I was gutted & the ea was furious as he loathes gazumping.

I desperately wanted this house & couldn't face any more house hunting, but I could only offer an extra £5k, which the vendors accepted. Sometimes I wish I'd just walked away & kept a hold of the extra money, but hearts rule heads all too often when house hunting.

hayleyatthemill

We are first time buyers and having missed out on two places we really wanted already, when we found a house we really liked last weekend we went straight in at the asking price (£125,000). There was a lot of interest and 4 other offers on the table (allegedly...), so on Tuesday when we were told that the vendor would accept £130,000 that day for a quick sale we went for it. Offer was accepted, but 2 hours later we received another call saying a higher offer had been placed and could we up ours. We said no as we'd really stretched ourselves on the £130,000 bid in the first place. Were then told on Thursday the house was ours and our offer was accepted again. Having been stung once already and feeling mistrustful of the sellers we asked them to take it off the market and cancel all viewings, which they did. Got the ball rolling with our solicitors etc. Then 4pm on Friday we receive another call from the estate agents to say there's another bid and as it's just over ours the vendor wants to arrange final, sealed bids from us by 5pm on Monday. What do we do??? Totally gutted and feel like we've been played. Do we stick to our guns and tell them where to go and risk the other people getting the house we want for £500 more than us? Or try to go a bit higher and hope that this will be the end of it? I don't trust these people any more, think even if we do go up again they'd still accept a higher offer if one was made.

Sorry this is such a long and tedious post but feeling very distressed and disheartened with the whole house-buying process and need subjective advice!!! Cannot believe that these people have treated us like this - how can they sleep at night???

susy_2

Melissa177 wrote: »

I also agree that these things happen for a reason. I'm not a superstitious person, but as someone else's sig on these forums said "Everything works out in the end, and if it isn't working out, it's not the end!"

Que sera, sera! Let go of what you 'thought' was your dream home. You now have extra time to take another look and I am sure that you will find an even better dream home. And then when you are tucked up in it and drinking cocoa, you will thank the seller and bidder for your good fortune.

ccygirl

Be strong and find somewhere else! The vendor is obviously easily swayed and not committed to selling to you. House buying is stressful enough and the vendor can pull out at any time possibly leaving you with a bill of £1k or more. You are FTB that's a stong position and should be your main barganing tool.

wnb

hayleyatthemill wrote: »

We are first time buyers and having missed out on two places we really wanted already, when we found a house we really liked last weekend we went straight in at the asking price (£125,000). There was a lot of interest and 4 other offers on the table (allegedly...), so on Tuesday when we were told that the vendor would accept £130,000 that day for a quick sale we went for it. Offer was accepted, but 2 hours later we received another call saying a higher offer had been placed and could we up ours. We said no as we'd really stretched ourselves on the £130,000 bid in the first place. Were then told on Thursday the house was ours and our offer was accepted again. Having been stung once already and feeling mistrustful of the sellers we asked them to take it off the market and cancel all viewings, which they did. Got the ball rolling with our solicitors etc. Then 4pm on Friday we receive another call from the estate agents to say there's another bid and as it's just over ours the vendor wants to arrange final, sealed bids from us by 5pm on Monday. What do we do??? Totally gutted and feel like we've been played. Do we stick to our guns and tell them where to go and risk the other people getting the house we want for £500 more than us? Or try to go a bit higher and hope that this will be the end of it? I don't trust these people any more, think even if we do go up again they'd still accept a higher offer if one was made.

Sorry this is such a long and tedious post but feeling very distressed and disheartened with the whole house-buying process and need subjective advice!!! Cannot believe that these people have treated us like this - how can they sleep at night???

I would write to the ea tell them what you think and withdraw your offer,they have gone back on their word and can not be trusted. Be thankfull you have not had to pay £1000's in fees, time to move on and learn from this experiance.