About to exchange, seen cheaper house on same street!

Running_Horse

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Not necessarily. But if another buyer comes along offering £215K would you ditch the first?

Perhaps not - but plenty of sellers would.

I wouldn't. We are close to exchange (at last!!!) and a similar house just sold in our street for £8,500 more than ours. We were happy with the full asking price we accepted and our buyers have acted with integrity thoughout. Why put our dream home at risk at the last minute? It's not even about the money. Having had 2 sales fall through a year ago due to ****holes trying to be clever, I would never do that to anyone.

telfordwhite

zag2me wrote: »

Threaten to pull out unless they take your lower offer! You are the one giving them all your money, don't forget that. Is a 5000 pound reduction worth being nice?

You and I must have different values, I would say that sticking to an agreement is being decent and trustworthy rather than just being "nice".

If everyone had your attitude nobody would sell a house and an awful lot of people would be out of pocket.....except you of course.

Congratulations for reducing your student debt so promptly, but I'd rather have friends.