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SSTC but interested
Myci85
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If you see houses that are STTC that you'd be interested in, would you call the EA and ask if it looks like the sale is going through or just wait and see if they come back on the market? Don't know if it's just annoying for EAs or if they're used to people registering their interest in case it falls through.
Also, if you had missed out on a house you have viewed and loved, would you similarly call to check if the sale is progressing before commiting to another property? In this case, the EA knows we're interested if it falls through.
Also, if you had missed out on a house you have viewed and loved, would you similarly call to check if the sale is progressing before commiting to another property? In this case, the EA knows we're interested if it falls through.
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Depends on the conditions of the Memorandum, the sellers may have agree to de-list the house and not accept anymore viewings or offers. However i would chuck an offer in and see what happens.0
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I interpreted the OP differently. To me it looks as if @Myci85 is saying that they might tell the EA that they're interested in this property should the sale fall through. That's different from chucking an offer in.
Maybe I would do the former; I definitely wouldn't do the latter. In my case I was interested in a property that had sold one day before I found out about it. Later on the EA got back to me saying that the sale had fallen through, but this was one day after I had an offer on another property accepted. So, they had remembered my interest. I hadn't prompted for that.0 -
Yes, I'm not looking to put an offer in, more wondering if it's worth registering my interest so that I might be contacted if it falls through.0
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Given that about 30% of sales fall through, the answer has to be "Yes."
"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe. The axe was clever and convinced the trees that since his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."
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I don't see any issue in registering an interest.
I had someone turn up on my doorstep offering 5k more than I'd sold for which i thougt was rude. They had previously viewed and I contacted the EA to.let them know I wasn't impressed0 -
Can't do any harm and will cost nothing.Myci85 said:Yes, I'm not looking to put an offer in, more wondering if it's worth registering my interest so that I might be contacted if it falls through.0 -
I personally wouldn't. But I would keep my eye on RM and similar in case it came back on the market again, and if it did, and I was still interested, I'd be making a move pronto at that stage.
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I would say "yes". My daughter had her interest registered with several houses that were Under Offer/ Removed from Market or SSTC and one sale did fall through after a few weeks. The vendors eventually decided to rent it out (no-one would meet their high asking price), but she offered on one that was previously taken off the market and is now in the process of buying it.
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I would say yes, if you had viewed but missed out. I wouldn’t do it with many others though as EA unlikely to see you as a serious buyer.0
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If you aren't already known to the EA they are unlikely to be proactive. May well be other parties that were outbid.0
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