This seems a bit strange to me, but I haven’t bought a house before.
We looked at a property yesterday evening and phoned up at 9.30am this morning to make an offer. We offered £10,000 below the asking price. The estate agent said that the couple who viewed afterwards had already phoned and offered the asking price - but he would put our offer forward too.
We are chain free with a DIP and a big deposit. At 1pm, after discussing it, we phoned and offered the asking price. I passed the message on as he wasn’t in the office.
They called back at 3pm and said they were sorry but the cut off time for making offers was 12pm , so the other offer had already been accepted. Nothing was said about a “cut off time” last night or this morning, which is what seems a bit strange to me.
The estate agent seemed to know the couple who came after us, from the way he greeted them. Another agent from the same agency was on the phone this afternoon, to talk to us about another house they have on the same estate that we had to previously enquired about - it is similar but not as nice as the one we offered on.
DH thinks there is something a bit strange about it, is there?!