A pre warning - this is a rant.
We have had our house on the market for 2.5 months. It's a lovely house. We want a bigger house in the same area. About a month ago a lovely house came up. Great size, needed work. The price reflected this and also meant we could buy it without needing to sell ours. We offered immediately. We discovered that the house, despite being marketed, was already sold and the estate agent was just re-listing it because there had been some issue and the vendors wanted to scare their buyers by remarketing. Gutted!
So yesterday we got an offer on our house. Slightly lower than we wanted but in fairness, realistic so we accepted. We made an offer this morning on a lovely house which does require us to link our sale. Turns out, they ALSO already have buyers lined up but are just continuing to market the property. I feel like we are not even off the starting block in this process and it's already crazy. Is everyone just messing about?!
This system is so messed up! I think that further down the chain there is time pressure for the people that have offered on our house. I don't know how this is ever going to work out. Have we just had bad luck twice? Are honest vendors out there?!
I'm off to get some chocolate. I'm going to have put on 2 stone by the time this is over!
Thanks for listening!