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stacdchan
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We have made an offer on a property with one estate agent, whilst waiting for our offer to be accepted the vendor instructed another estate agents to sell the property (also keeping the original estate agent). The offer has been accepted and all is moving along smoothly but for some reason the other estate agent is refusing to remove the advert. I have spoken with out estate agent and they have chased both the vendor, who insists he has instructed them to remove the advert, and even popped in themselves to speak to the person in charge of the sale and asked for it to be removed to be told "yeah they will do". Our estate agent ensures us that the other agent doesn't have access to the property and also the vendor won't accept any offers, but we are really uneasy going forward because of the possibility that someone could make a better offer and we don't want to waste our money.
Has anyone else been in this situation before?
Has anyone else been in this situation before?
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Agents play games. They don't want to pull a property that a competitor has sold because it's not sold until completion... it also makes their window look busy ... but, they'd only use it to lure in potential buyers of other houses they are selling, to get new punters onto their books. They have no time/zest for trying to do any viewings on a house that is "sold" as it costs them time/money/effort ... for no benefit.
Better for people to see it and contact them, then they can give it a large dose of "Ah, gone, sold .... what are you looking for?" and potentially sell them another.
As I said, they'd not waste their time doing any viewings on a house that, to them, is already sold...0 -
Thanks. They are selling the house next door so a part of me is thinking that they are just keeping it on the market to generate more interest in the other property. The other property is on for nearly 50K more so that is a slight concern we have...….."oh you can't afford this property but we have another to the same spec and 50K cheaper etc".0
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It looks like they're very good at their job of estate agencying.
Use them when you come to sell.0
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