Offering on house....when already offered on another

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Hi,

Just wondering if anyone else has done this?

Firstly, we are not lucky enough to be able to buy two houses! We are considering offering on another house, when we already have a sale going through on another

We do have a complete chain, but one of the vendors keeps changing their mind and offering on different properties, some chain free, some not, so we're now feeling anxious, as we are second in the chain and our (chain free) buyers offered on our house a few months ago now. We felt the sensible thing to do was to keep looking, but as a back up, more than anything.

However, we've now found somewhere within catchment to my DDs school (other house isn't), in a village with more going on, more sense of community and very short chain. Some might say chain free- they're moving to a new build, so sort of I suppose.

House A is in a quieter village, further away from DDs school, with only a pub (albeit very friendly) and community shop. The house itself has more kurb appeal than house B, but both have equal amounts of potential.

Oh I don't know! It's terrible house buying karma isn't it?! And we would lose money at this stage, but honestly I'd feel worse about letting our sellers down. This is such a huge decision though. It's our future. This is suppose to be a long term house too, so we can't turn our backs on somewhere that could work better for us because we feel bad, can we?

Thoughts please. Feeling really confused and conflicted.

TIA

Yes we did tell the EA of house 2 that we'd already had an offer accepted on house 1. House 2 was in demand, as a type of house harder to find in the area, so we made a full asking price offer and as we were quite far down the road with our own buyers that went in our favour. We actually already had a good relationship with the EA selling house 2 as we'd been looking in the area for a while so she knew us which also helped.

We only told the sellers of house 1 once our offer on house 2 had been accepted, otherwise we could have lost both. Luckily House 1 went under offer again and sold quickly so that was good.

@HildaSnibbs, ah...I didn't let the EA know, as I assumed that the vendors wouldn't let us view. Our EA knows that we began our search again, as I asked them about a couple of properties which were on with them and they just said to let them know if I wanted a viewing. In the sales progression catch up call, they did try to reassure me that the chain was good and that the other guy shouldn't be messing us around anymore, but then they also have another house in the chain.