When you put an offer on a house to buy do you carry on viewing other properties?

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I think you don't, dp thinks we should (or I should as I have more time than him).
We are about to put a good offer in on a house but he keeps saying that an offer is not legally binding and we are not obliged to go as far as exchange if we find something else. But I think that is a weird idea as I will have to instruct solicitors and surveyors and get the finance finalised whilst all the time thinking I might not go through with it. I really like the house and am only making an offer because I want to live there.

What is the normal thing to do? Do other people carry on looking after making offers? Is he being abnormally cautious and commitment-phobic or am I being naive?

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we went to look at one more house when we already put an offer on a house...as soon we saw the other house..we just knew that the other house is what we wanted and now here we are 4 yrs later

I've heard it is not uncommon to make multiple offers and obviously only follow through on one. I did keep an eye out for alternatives after offering as our negotiations always felt very shaky but it came through in the end.

I would only make an offer on a house that I really wanted to buy. I would therefore not be looking at any other properties. If you want to be viewed as a serious buyer then you should be organising a survey asap. Your DP is right to say that an offer is not legally binding and you could pull out at anytime, but do you want to?

Also, if I heard that someone who had offered on a property that I was selling was viewing other properties then I would be pulling out.

I wouldn't, and as a seller I would treat a buyer much less seriously if I heard they were still looking elsewhere. And this sort of thing does get round - my friend had accepted an offer but found the couple had made an offer on another house as well, so she immediately accepted a slightly lower offer from another 'more serious' buyer.

If after having put in an offer you change your mind or 'just' happen to see another house that's one thing, but it doesn't sound serious to deliberately make an offer on one place but still keep looking.

I don't know if that is a mixed message, but I suppose what I'm saying is that I wouldn't keep on viewing lots of houses after I'd made an offer, but if I happened to see what could be the house of my dreams on rightmove or whatever I would go and view that one. Just in case!