Is this normal when making an offer on House?

Hi OP, you seem in love with this house don’t forget it’s not the only one! View more this weekend as you are doing, anything can happen during the process. Also - not saying you aren’t - I feel that you need to view it as your home not just a purchase. So yes you’ve upped your offer and you’ve been asked to wait but over a lifetime the money and time won’t amount to much. It’s a bank holiday and with possibly several siblings involved it may have been the easiest decision for them. Keep busy viewing this weekend! I hope it goes your way.

You've said several times that it's been on sale for some time without having any offers. Does that tell you anything? Is the market generally slow in that area? Would it suggest it's overpriced? Have you looked at any comparisons with houses sold or for sale in the area to get a sense of where the asking price is pitched? It doesn't exactly suggest to offer full asking price.

I'd withdraw the offer, look for other houses and if they come back to you I'd then offer below the asking price. That means being prepared to take a risk and playing hard to get. When people delay or mess around like this, throw in a move or two of your own.

I’d tell them you have no interest in a bidding war scenario or sealed bids and making a full asking price offer in a position to move quickly should be enough for them and give them 48 hours to accept and remove from market

Honestly having been messed around by sellers recently and used to drive up another offer recently too (I offered full asking, then above asking) I’d retract my offer before the weekend so they can’t use it to push up other interested parties.

You can say you’ve offered on something else, then in a weeks time say that didn’t progress as they decided not to sell and re offer.

Totally agree, a really miserable process that sucks out all the pleasure of finding a home.

Scottish system is awful in other ways...you have to pay for a survey before offering without knowing you get accepted...alot of money out for no reason. So glad not in Scotland. Had a friend buy in Scotland and now lives in Scotland but can't move as costs so much to pay for survey etc.

Op...sounds like they using you. Yes very normal but awful. Keep looking at other places.

OP, bluntly, you seem more than a bit naive. I get everyone who buys somewhere to live does it for the first time at some point, but you seem baffled by entirely predictable parts of the process. Of course they want to see if they can get a better offer if they have other viewings booked over the weekend. Of course the estate agent isn’t a neutral party. Of course the vendors can come back to you later on if other offers fall through. Of course they’re not necessarily in a hurry if it’s an estate sale. Of course vendors can, and do withdraw, pretty much until the moment of exchange.

Don’t lose your heart to anything till it’s yours. If you’re in a hurry, tell them your asking price offer is time-limited, but keep looking elsewhere, too.

The property market is crap. There’s no excitement or enjoyment to be found, just stress and a high chance your purchase will fall through. Don’t get attached to any house until you own it.

Yeah l think it’s bullshit there is someone else at 2 months in

You just need to be patient until Tuesday. They want to ensure they get the most possible. You would want the same in their position.

Assuming they accept the offer on Tuesday ask that it is taken off the market from the date you book your survey. You will have committed money then so want protection from time wasting.

If it's been empty this long it's unlikely someone will come along in a better position to you and make an asking price offer.

I'm assuming you are chain free, have a mortgage in principle etc and ready to go.

All this. There is definitely something about buying and selling property that does something to people. It’s a sight to behold. There are some decent people out there -with our last purchase and sale both parties were very decent

No, they didn’t, but I’d made it quite clear I wasn’t interested in being treated like that.
I found the house that I actually bought that weekend anyway.

I'd already had one experience with another house with the same estate agent trying to get me to enter into a bidding war. I had upped my offer a couple of times before I realised what they were doing. I told them I wasn’t getting into a bidding war and they still came back to me several more times telling me the other party had upped his offer - I got the impression the poor buyer ended up bidding against themselves. I think that particular estate agent was pretty unscrupulous.

I also believe if it’s meant to be then it will be.

It is frustrating but they have other viewings this weekend and are within their rights to see how they go and if anyone offers who is in a better position than you. For all you know, it is the estate agent being slow at getting back to you. Withdrawing your offer for a house you love just seems like a tantrum and just means you potentially miss out. I would wait until Monday and then say you would like a reply within 24 hours and take it from there.

You are on the back burner, they are waiting to see if something better comes along. I would continue viewing places. I would also draw a line in the sand, seller did something similar to me a few years ago and they never got back to me in the end. They ended up selling below my offer which was full asking price 🤣

What is the market like where you are? Is a buyers market or a sellers market

We always make offers subject to being immediately removed from market. And leave it at that. If it’s not accepted and removed with reasonable time - say 24 - 48 hours; or counter offered - then we move on.

OP - the fact that it's an estate sale does put a different spin on it.

To the beneficiaries, it's a transaction. Things may well take longer, and they may well want to show it for longer before accepting your offer.

@offerquery. We missed out on a house as the estate agent didn’t even bother letting us know our offer was too low, allowing us to increase our offer. First we knew it was sold was when it was marked sstc on right move less than three days after our initial offer. The sale subsequently did fall through.
We’ve found a much nicer house for the money, so it did work out for us in the end.

They might do just that, OP.

If it's for sale via an Estate, so say maybe 2 or 3 siblings are the beneficiaries, each of them have to ponder, discuss, argue, debate.

It can cause lots of delays and obstacles.