We had an offer accepted on a property on Friday and was told the house would be taken off the market and no further viewings would be booked.
About half an hour ago we get a call to say another offer has come in through another agent (who happens to not have got the memo about the house being sold) and do we want to increase our offer?
The increase is another £3k.
Its a small increase but I have a few issues:
1 - the vendor gave his word that it would be off the market - if he agreed to the other agent doing viewings what else might he do further down the line
2 - this makes me worry that this would happen further down the line
3 - if we increase our offer, there is nothing stopping the other potential purchases increasing theirs and then getting in a bidding war after we already had a sale agreed
Its all quite stressful, and no idea what to do.