Is the estate agent lying?

[PetiteMum]

ok, here is the scenario...following advice we made first offer on house that is on Market at 214,995 for 185,000

An embarrassingly low one that we knew wouldn't be accepted. Then we made one at 199,000

Agent said the vendor really wants an extra grand, so we agreed, then he came back saying one more grand. So we were at 202'000

Today he called saying the vendor has been calculating moving costs and just needs a tiny bit more to break even. 203,000 and u can pretty much have a deal.

I am furious at his incessant bullshitting to get us to pay extra money. When we made the first offer he said vendor was looking for 200,000. Now he is saying they really want 205,000 so has changed the goalposts.
I really want to walk into the office and tell him to stop lying and give him an earful.....but am restraining myself!

So, what do we do? Tell him we can't go higher? And risk losing out? Or does this go on forever till we get to 210,000?

well done.

did you challenge them on this mysterious "other family"????!?!?!?!?!

Grrrrr - they are all bloody cheats. Years ago, buying our first property, our agent had us bidding against ourselves - saying exactly what your agent said, to bump our offer up. We found them out, withdrew our offer, which meant that, of course, there was no other offer and the seller had to come crawling back in about 5 grand under where we had been "advised" to offer against a "mysterious" non-existent bidder

Good for you.

I really wanted to, but didnt bother in the end. I guess the best thing to do is ignore estate agents! Lesson learnt! I am however annoyed we didn't stop at 200,000.......
Guess we can't go backwards now though

well you can - it's called gazundering

Cool - well done for holding your nerve!