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Estate Agent Blocking Offer
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The OP is not making an offer. he is enquiring about the flat, presumably with the intention of viewing.pbartlett said:It is actually against the law for an EA not to pass on any offers. The EA is, of course, perfectly able to include any recommendations to the vendor along with the offer.
Write a formal letter of complaint to the EA. Point out they are breaking the law by not passing on your offer. Once the complaint is answered, you have the option of going to the Property Ombudsman1 -
OP has low number of posts joined Dec .
This sort of thing normally has a missing back story
a quick look
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/profile/discussions/MoneyTreeMe
Quite a few thread starts for a newcomer and not many follow ups.
A bit scatter gun with couple of basket case type threads in there as well.
Hard to make any context when you have £100k profit questions along side unemployed questions
limited data to go on but leads me in this direction.
If they conduct their house hunting dealings in a similar manor I suspect they may have been marked as time waster.
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