Apologies for the house threads it isn’t my first! We have now found a house we absolutely love. Been on the market since September with purple bricks. We viewed twice love it and made an offer. Offered 5% below asking on the basis that it’s been on a few weeks, the market is volatile and it’s a fair offer (have discussed with our EA).
Our position is we have had a couple of offers including 2 FTBs, have one more viewing today which was booked last week so we want to honour then are going to decide today/tomorrow. The second offer so far is just over asking which is great. In my offer I said we have had an offer from a FTB so going for best and final with a view to accept one Friday.
They have responded declining the offer (fair enough!) but saying they have had ‘loads of interest’ and are going to best and final on Monday. I find this hard to believe as a) it’s been on the market 8 weeks how coincidental it’s had a rush of interest just after we have offered!) and b) they have form for bullshitting I think. You can message via the app so this week I messaged asking if we could come for a second viewing. He said he could move things around and be home the next afternoon so we booked it in. As we left he said he had three more viewings after us. Really?! With 12 hours notice 3 other people have booked consecutive slots for a house that’s been on the market a while 🤨.
We love the house it fits the bill for us perfectly. What would you do next? I think if we go slightly over asking for ours I’d tag that onto our other offer and perhaps up it by £2.5k as a gesture but I’m not going to be fooled into getting into a bidding war with other people who I’m not sure exist? I rang PB last week and they said they’ve got no active offers on the house so IMO they’re telling porky pies!