Offering after closing?

ripple34

This may be elsewhere just not sure what it'd be under
Offer early on Tuesday was rejected. I've expressed to agent I'm still here with an increase if it becomes available. 
Nearly 4 days later it's still marked For Sale online 
Do I go back and make an offer? Or should I wait to hear from them?

Thanks for any thoughts

user1977

Ask them whether it's actually under offer? Not all agents immediately update the listings.

ripple34

Thanks 1977 - what would be the definition of 'under offer' though? isn't that once they've said 'the vendor's going with another offer' to me
But yes, they may only do their updates weekly

Rosy_Apple

I find a lot of agents don't change what the listings say online, the house we are in the process with still says for sale and others with them, dating back to last summer, are the same. Very frustrating!

user1977

ripple34 said:

Thanks 1977 - what would be the definition of 'under offer' though? isn't that once they've said 'the vendor's going with another offer' to me
But yes, they may only do their updates weekly

There's not much point speculating with us - talk to the agent if you want to know what's going on. If you need help interpreting their response, come back here.

MickeyFTB

ripple34 said:

This may be elsewhere just not sure what it'd be under
Offer early on Tuesday was rejected. I've expressed to agent I'm still here with an increase if it becomes available. 
Nearly 4 days later it's still marked For Sale online 
Do I go back and make an offer? Or should I wait to hear from them?

Thanks for any thoughts

I would call and clarify - we had an offer rejected on a house and a few days later it was back for sale in an estate agents brochure. Turns out someone forgot to remove the property.

It did go back for sale a few months later but we’d found somewhere else but I’ve seen that with a few properties. 

ripple34

Rosy - Thank you
you mean you are buying?? Aren't you in a position to demand the status is updated?

I know it's not great idea, but I'm so regretful on losing out that I would like to re-offer. One can't stop the thought running through the brain!! Human nature I suppose

ripple34

Thanks 1977 - don't wish to be obsessivlely clingy. But I think I'll just try and be fatalistic about it. Che sera ...

Mahsroh

When I sold my house recently it took a good 3 or 4 days from me verbally accepting an offer to actually receive the memorandum of sale and for it to marked SSTC on the portals, because the offer acceptance was subject to them providing proof of funds and the EA doing ID checks etc, and the EA was generally quite slow getting the paperwork in place. 

No harm in making a phone call to say "I can see it's still on the market and we'd like to increase our offer to X". They might say no, but there's only one way to find out..... 

ripple34

Thanks, Mahsroh - Blimey, that must have been super-stressy, I mean - It's all they do all day, every day, every week of every year. I think so much of this stuff is just theatre. 

I suppose I'm wary of getting a black mark somewhere along the line and being thrown out of the running. 

Slithery

ripple34 said:

Blimey, that must have been super-stressy, I mean - It's all they do all day, every day, every week of every year. I think so much of this stuff is just theatre.

Why would that be super-stressful? It's not the EA that decides on whether or not to accept the offer, it's the vendors.

Why wouldn't you take a week or so to contemplate an offer?

ripple34 said:

what would be the definition of 'under offer' though? isn't that once they've said 'the vendor's going with another offer' to me

The EA can say whatever they want to. They can call it 'under offer', 'still on the market', 'awaiting final bids', 'sold subject to contract' or whatever they want. None of those have any legal meaning and can change without your agreement. Until you exchange contracts there is absolutely no guarantee that the property will ever be yours.

You are in no position to demand anything. You are making an offer, that's all...