Hi all,
I recently put in an offer of 322k on a house that was listed for 325k. When I placed the offer, I stated it was on the condition that the property was taken off the market immediately, and future viewings cancelled. The sellers agreed and the property was taken down i.e you could not find it listed for sale anywhere.
Fast forward 3 days, after doing further research, I concluded that I had offered far too much and told the EA I wanted to revise the offer to 317k - this was mainly because the property just wasn’t worth the original offer (it is a lot smaller than houses in the same price range). The EA was furious and quite aggressive on the phone (some would say with reason).
24 hours later (yesterday) he came back to me to advise that the sellers were agreeable and that they will place the house back up for sale until the survey is booked (assuming to prove I’m a serious buyer).
I really do want the house so contacted a surveyor this morning who in turn contacted the EA straight after to book in a date for the survey.
As per our agreement, I was expecting the EA to take the property off the market, however instead, they marked it as ‘under offer’, this is definitely not the same thing.. is it? My colleagues think they’ve done it to keep the door open to potential buyers..
Do I have a right to call them and ask them to remove it, or at least mark it as ‘Sold STC’? Im a first time buyer so haven’t been through anything like this before.
I know I shouldn’t have been so quick to put in an offer, but at the time, I was willing to turn a blind eye to it’s downsides.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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Anitai · 14/02/2020 18:05
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