House relisted on Rightmove after offer and Sold STC

Twins

Hello,  please can someone help.

We've just found that a house we had an offer on and had completed the survey on etc on has now been re-listed by the estate agent.  We found the listing by pure chance and nobody had told us about this.  

I'm absolutely furious that the EA didn't inform us.  I know our mortgage offer has taken ages to come though but I didn't expect this underhand tactic.  

Is this a normal thing that happens?  I know there isn't anything set in stone until contracts exchanged but the being kept in the dark is what's really annoyed me.

youth_leader

Have you been keeping the EA informed of your mortgage offer progression?  Does seem odd the vendor has asked to be relisted without any communication.

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Twins said:

Hello,  please can someone help.

We've just found that a house we had an offer on and had completed the survey on etc on has now been re-listed by the estate agent.  We found the listing by pure chance and nobody had told us about this.  

I'm absolutely furious that the EA didn't inform us.  I know our mortgage offer has taken ages to come though but I didn't expect this underhand tactic.  

Is this a normal thing that happens?  I know there isn't anything set in stone until contracts exchanged but the being kept in the dark is what's really annoyed me.

If you haven't had any communication from them to say this then I think it would be extremely unlikely. Is it possible it's just a mistake?

Have they given you any kind of warnings about you not having your mortgage quick enough?

Jonboy_1984

One of the estate agents locally has a habit of relisting them and not doing viewings, they are simply trying to build up a mailing list of of buyers. They claim the vendors have requested it in case the SSTC falls through…

After the 8th property isnt actually on the market it gets a bit old….and you stop looking at their listings…

Twins

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Twins said:

Hello,  please can someone help.

We've just found that a house we had an offer on and had completed the survey on etc on has now been re-listed by the estate agent.  We found the listing by pure chance and nobody had told us about this.  

I'm absolutely furious that the EA didn't inform us.  I know our mortgage offer has taken ages to come though but I didn't expect this underhand tactic.  

Is this a normal thing that happens?  I know there isn't anything set in stone until contracts exchanged but the being kept in the dark is what's really annoyed me.

If you haven't had any communication from them to say this then I think it would be extremely unlikely. Is it possible it's just a mistake?

Have they given you any kind of warnings about you not having your mortgage quick enough?

Not had any warning at all. Our mortgage offer has taken 3 months and I've been in regular contact all the way keeping the EA updated.  I feel this is very underhanded and am really shocked that this has happened.  How can it be a re-listing be a mistake, I'm afraid I just don't buy that  

user1977

Given the OP's other threads indicate they've been waiting over three months for a mortgage offer, and they had said over a month ago "we are now at risk of our seller pulling out of the deal as it's been so long and people are starting to get uncomfortable up the chain" it sounds like it hasn't come out of the blue (assuming it's a deliberate re-listing).

trakky14

3 months is a long time, estate agents just want to make their commission....a lot of them do this. Obviously the owners need to agree so the problem may be with the owners, they may have asked for it to be relisted rather than being encouraged by the EA. Perhaps they are concerned you won't get your mortgage? Perhaps they think they can sell to a cash buyer? 

I've seen lots of houses relisted, when you ring up to book a viewing the agents often say what the situation is...some vendors relist it but don't allow viewings, some allow viewings. If they say 'oh it's sold sstc but the vendor has asked for it to remain on rightmove etc' we've never persued a viewing. It totally puts us off, the vendors come across as being difficult or greedy in my opinion. 

Twins

@user1977 Yes it took a long time for our offer to come through but I was more than transparent throughout the entire time with the EA and seller as to where we were at and what was happening.   However, it seems the EA was clearly not transparent with us and telling us the house had been relisted and in fact has been calling me every single day for the past 2 weeks but still failed to mention this.  I just would have appreciated some honesty as I had been with them.

user1977

Have you at least been getting on with your due diligence in the meantime and the mortgage offer should be the last thing? Or were you planning to wait until you got it before proceeding with the rest of the work?

Twins

user1977 said:

Have you at least been getting on with your due diligence in the meantime and the mortgage offer should be the last thing? Or were you planning to wait until you got it before proceeding with the rest of the work?

I'm not sure what you mean by due diligence.  Survey's have been done, enquires responded to and deposit in place.  Not sure how much more I could have done? 

Twins

@trakky14 Thank you for being the voice of reasoning.  I'm sure this was the case but it just disappointed in the EA was not honest with us.  It's even just harder when you think people can be so underhanded  especially when the EA tells you "we are different to other EA's and don't like to do underhand tactics like other EA's".  Well that turned out to be a lie.    I know at the end of the day it's business and a lot of money involved but I just expected some honesty, maybe very naive of me!