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AIBU to reduce our accepted house offer after selling ours cheaply?

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Miserablestrawberry · 15/04/2026 15:29

We offered asking price on a house (825k) a couple of weeks ago (the house had only just been put on the market), and the offer was accepted but the vendors refused to take the house off of the market (completely understandable) and have had multiple viewings but no offers since.

We’ve now accepted an offer on our house. Due to the market, we’ve accepted quite a low offer (650k when we were initially valued at 700-715k from multiple agents) as the market seems to have sunk since the Iran war. We wanted to accept an offer Asap so that we can formalise the offer on the property mentioned.

As we’ve accepted a fairly low offer, would it be seen as cheeky to amend our initial offer on the house we wish to buy? We were thinking of going back at £815k.

OP posts:
Laiste · 15/04/2026 15:32

That's the whole point of it being 'accepted' .... no?

Laiste · 15/04/2026 15:31

I thought accepting an offer took a house off the market?

JalamityCame · 15/04/2026 15:31

If you’re happy to lose the house then go for it.

Pippa12 · 15/04/2026 15:30

You can only ask, they can always say no! Depends how quickly they want to sell.