Just discovered the house we have put an offer on is sold (subject to contract) to another buyer

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and the estate agents haven't told us. God how I hate this buying/selling crap.

They didn't tell you? If they have accepted your offer the less they could do was to let you know at least to see if you wanted to put a counter offer.

Hope you have not started searches or any other expensive process...

They should hever have let you put an offer in without informing you. Check on the legality of that one. It's disgusting. Sorry COV, selling/buying is stressful enough without this additional crap.

We put in the offer a few weeks ago I was just browsing through the findaproperty website and saw it was "sale agreed- subject to contract". We had only got as far as "offer accepted" so it must be someone else. I realise that there is always a chance you can loose out on a property but I am gutted (nearly in tears here). It isn't just losing that house (although I live it) it is just this was a whole new thing for us relocation/new life etc etc. now it just seems to be falling down around my ears.

COV - that is terrible! I am sorry this has happened - maybe a mistake on the website?

Are you sure it doesn't refer to your offer?

I think it might be your offer... ring them tomorrow and don't get worked up, IME if the seller is happy with the offer the "sold-dubject-to-contract" sign goes up on the following days.

I think it might be your offer... ring them tomorrow and don't get worked up, IME if the seller is happy with the offer the "sold-dubject-to-contract" sign goes up on the following days.

I am pretty certain it isn't referring to us. We have put in an offer and he has "accepted" it, but said he wouldn't take it of the market until we had ours under offer too. SO I'm pretty certain it isn't referring to us. I so wanted that house, plus it gaurenteed dd a place at the best local school. Now if we have lost it even if we get an offer on ours there isn't another place we want to buy . I had soo pinned my hopes on that house, giving us the opportunity to get out of London, away from dh's suffocating family etc etc and now it is all going belly up. AM off to open a bottle of wine.

Why can't buying a house be like popping to the shops for a pint of milk. You have the money you buy it, end of story.

Have just had an email from dh to confirm that it isn't us as he hasn't heard from the estate agents so I guess we have lost it. PANTS.

Sorry about that CoV, trying to move house is horrendously stressful at the best of times. Bloody agents.

We've been pipped twice so far (our offer on one went in before others had a second viewing but got subsequently rejected and they went with others' offer) even though we have sold subject to contract and our buyers are prepared to rent in the interim. Had hoped they might have exchanged on theirs while we were on holiday which would have helped our bargaining position. Even while away and since returning from our holiday we've been invited to submit a Full and Final higher offer by the EA , which I thought would be classed as Gazumping but apparently isn't as we made the offer first ?

Now can't find anything else suitable - aargh !!

hang on you've put in an offer on a house which has been accepted by the vendor and now it shows a 'sold subject to contract'

have you spoken to the estate agent at all about this?

I would assume it refers to you and call them up to check

if it didn't I'd throw a total fit at them (well I might not, but I'd want to)

DH is going to phone them when he wakes up, can't trust myself to do it without either losing it or starting to cry.

fingers crossed for you COV

fingers crossed love. Estate agents generally fall into the category of "insensitive money grabbing wankers"

(AllieBongo would like to add that not all of them are like this, but quite a few are, escpecially Cheffins IMO)

"when he wakes up"

either phone them yourself or get him out of bed NOW

What a nightmare COV, they should have told you straight away!!

I'd assume that the vendor has chosen the other purchaser over you because they are in a better position. How is your house sale going?

We've had similar househunting woes too COV & I was being pressurised to sign for a house when we hadn't had an offer on ours by the vendor's EA, I was in tears on the phone several times. We lost it eventually. Then we missed out on our dream house by 2 days as we were waiting on written offer on ours. Now we've set our hearts on another the vendor refused our first offer but we're prepared to up it by £5K & have discovered through solicitors that he hadn't pulled out of his original sale which he'd told us was the reason house was back on the market. He's pushing the other buyers to sign & won't consider an offer from us till they pull out completely. He's basically just wasted about 5 weeks of our time fannying about. There's bu**er all else we want to buy or can afford in the area we want & we're due to move out 8th October. DH is stressing but I'm trying to be laid back about it all cos the whole thing is too stressful anyway without putting yourself under pressure as well. Hope it works out for you & you get what you want.

Are you sure it wasn't SSC before you offered an buyers pulled out?? Hope so.

I reall do sympathise.

This happened to us too. We'd had an expensive survey done and a further recommended report.

Then, my buyer pulled out after we refused to accept a "revised" lower offer - for NO reason, just trying it on, gazundering - and out of courtesy the people selling the house were informed. They "agreed" to give us another 3 weeks to find a buyer but in less than a week had accepted another offer.

What's worse ..... my original buyer then "changed his mind" back again 2 days after that so us losing the property could have been totally preventable ...... so between him and the sellers, we lost not only the property we really wanted but an awful lot of money as well.

The estate agents just squirmed and fobbed us off when we (understandably) expressed our feelings .... you know, the old "if contracts haven't been exchanged ...." crap ..... totally disregarding the morals.

It's a pity there isn't any comeback for greedy people who "change their minds" (unnecessarily in my case) and cause havoc. And sellers who "agree" stuff without any real intention of honouring it. It seems morals often count for little when buying and selling.

What was worse was that we found out about this via a voice message.

Despite several weeks negotiations and lots of discussion with estate agents who were well aware of how much we wanted the house, they didn't even have the courtesy to speak to us directly.

is it in england or in scotland this has happened. In scotland all parties are kept in the communication form when you note interest to closing date so this sort of thing wont happen. ie you cant be gauzumped(sp) Once a verbally offer/written offer has been accpeted then that is legaly binding

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