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House buying nightmare, feeling done by agent

sarahb7538 · 2018-05-31 07:06:10

Hi, I'm hoping some of you more experienced house buyers can offer me some advice. I'm a first timer buyer with my partner we found a house loved it and it ticked most of our must have boxes. Saw it at the weekend and at that point, someone had already offered the asking price, so we offered and added £550 to the price.…

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takman Posts: 3,876 Forumite

1 June 2018 at 9:54AM

sarahb7538 wrote: »

Anyway, the vendor wants considerably more than the asking price and our offer combined even though there are no other offers on the table, so that's the end of that house.

They want more than your offer (which was above asking price) and the asking price combined?

So your saying they want more than twice the price they listed it at :rotfl:

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