Sellers agent increased price on MOS

stevetuk

The MOS finally came through after 2 weeks of waiting, from the vendors agent. They've added £500 to the offer price? Even my email specifically states the offer, and they replied to that saying they confirm it's been accepted and added £500 to it.

What do I do? I don't want to risk losing the purchase over £500 but at the same time, isn't this cowboy behaviour? Doesn't bode well is my worry.

user1977

I’d first assume a typo rather than “cowboy behaviour”.

bobster2

Just write back to the EA and say there's an error - and ask them to reissue the MoS with the agreed offer price.

Flugelhorn

errors happen, just say that this was not the figure that was agreed 

Devongardener

Just ask the agent why?

eddddy

I guess the worry here is that the estate agent might have messed up at the outset, and told the seller your offer was £500 higher - which the seller then accepted.

So you want to avoid the seller thinking you're messing about by reducing your offer by £500.



In your position, I might be tempted to write an email to the estate agent saying something like:

"Please explain to the seller that you have made la mistake in quoting my offer as £x. My offer was £y.

To avoid any bad feeling between the seller and myself, please make it clear to the seller that this was a mistake by you, and not me reducing my offer.

Please get back to me confirming that you have done as above."

horsewithnoname

eddddy said:

I guess the worry here is that the estate agent might have messed up at the outset, and told the seller your offer was £500 higher - which the seller then accepted.

So you want to avoid the seller thinking you're messing about by reducing your offer by £500.



In your position, I might be tempted to write an email to the estate agent saying something like:

"Please explain to the seller that you have made la mistake in quoting my offer as £x. My offer was £y.

To avoid any bad feeling between the seller and myself, please make it clear to the seller that this was a mistake by you, and not me reducing my offer.

Please get back to me confirming that you have done as above."

I’d feel more inclined to ask the agent to explain; what if the agent hasn’t made an error? Why accuse them without cause?

Myci85

No need to go in all guns blazing as all that'll do is make them think you're going to be tricky to deal with. All it needs is a quick email reply to clarify that offer accepted was X, but you've noticed MOS states Y so you just wanted to check this was an error. 

House purchases usually come with plenty to stress about as is, so no point sweating the small stuff. 

TheJP

eddddy said:

I guess the worry here is that the estate agent might have messed up at the outset, and told the seller your offer was £500 higher - which the seller then accepted.

So you want to avoid the seller thinking you're messing about by reducing your offer by £500.



In your position, I might be tempted to write an email to the estate agent saying something like:

"Please explain to the seller that you have made la mistake in quoting my offer as £x. My offer was £y.

To avoid any bad feeling between the seller and myself, please make it clear to the seller that this was a mistake by you, and not me reducing my offer.

Please get back to me confirming that you have done as above."

or phone the EA and say the MOS is £500 more than offered. Can you send a new one please. Stop over complicating things!

Hoenir

TheJP said:

eddddy said:

I guess the worry here is that the estate agent might have messed up at the outset, and told the seller your offer was £500 higher - which the seller then accepted.

So you want to avoid the seller thinking you're messing about by reducing your offer by £500.



In your position, I might be tempted to write an email to the estate agent saying something like:

"Please explain to the seller that you have made la mistake in quoting my offer as £x. My offer was £y.

To avoid any bad feeling between the seller and myself, please make it clear to the seller that this was a mistake by you, and not me reducing my offer.

Please get back to me confirming that you have done as above."

or phone the EA and say the MOS is £500 more than offered. Can you send a new one please. Stop over complicating things!

Pick up the phone and point out the typing error. Job done. 

stevetuk

Chatted to EA very tactfully but they they said they'd passed that as the offer to the vendor, so the vendor was expecting that as the sale price. He offered to ask if the vendor would accept a reduction. At that point I said not to bother and to go with what was on the MOS. Whether deliberate or otherwise, it's £500 more than offered now.