Lied to by estate agent! Advice please!

[Pereie]

We viewed a house at the beginning of June.

Really loved it but got cold feet about moving due to the current situation. Roll on the stamp duty cap and we changed our minds and decided to go for it.

I went into the estate agency to ask about the property and a possible second viewing, but was told it was under offer. Oh well. That was two weeks ago, the property is still on line and not marked as under offer or sold. So we got a friend to enquire about the property- they were offered a viewing

Now I'm just shocked and confused as to why not one but two of the agents we spoke to lied to us.

It might be because we are not under offer atm and don't see us as serious buyers, which is fine whatever, but don't lie.

I'm so angry and not quite sure what to do next. We really want to see the house again the cement our feelings and propose an offer - but we are being told it's off the market.

Help!

[Smallgoon]

@Bowerbird5 Did you ever find out why they had set it to Sold? Did they claim it was an 'error'?

[WB205020]

@Pereie Any update? Did you hear from the EA?

[Shinesweetfreedom]

@EL8888

Glad you’re getting somewhere. Sounds typical of estate agents, they are a load of sly snakes after all. It’s not even a real job especially, unlike in America when you have to be qualified in real estate. Give me a cheap suit and a Astra then l could do it!

Quite

[Pereie]

[quote WB205020]@Pereie Any update? Did you hear from the EA?[/quote]
Nope.

Neither has the vendor.

They are just out of contract and have now listed with purple bricks. We put an offer in today so fingers crossed we can make it work.

I still have no idea why we were told it was sold

[MothershipG]

As you were introduced by the dodgy agent they will still have to pay them if they sell to you so not sure why they'd list with PB who have to be paid upfront! That's money down the drain.

[Pereie]

I thought that was the case. Maybe they are fighting the EA for breach of contract or something.

I'm staying out of it.

Though they are the main EA in our area so annoying if we have to view more house etc. I really don't want to deal with them.

[cantstopsinginglittlebabybum]

Did they accept your offer op?

[Patch23042]

I hope you get that house, OP

[shrill]

Shocked at what seems to be going on, Such a shame you can't give a link !

[BammBamm]

OP when I was on maternity leave I asked to view a house within minutes of it going on. I told them I could view anytime and was told the earliest they could do the viewing a was a few weeks time (empty property, owner deceased). I questioned it, they were firm. A day later it went under offer. A few days later I went into the estate agents and questioned them and they said it was going to best and final offers and we had missed the boat as they had to be in on Monday. I put forward my offer there and then and explained that they legally had to put it forward (we were planning on gutting the house and knew the location/layout). Needless to say, they didn't and when the sold price came online, we saw our offer was higher. It went back on the market a couple of months later with a cheap tart up for 70% more.
I actually tried to report them to the property ombudsmen and I was told that there was nothing they could do. It was a scheme paid for by EAs and it was voluntary.
Before we bought the house we're in now, we had been looking a long time and I never viewed a property with that Estate Agent again.
Hopefully online agents will eventually mean the demise of corrupt estate agents

[Pereie]

Update:

Offer accepted

Fingers crossed it goes through without a hitch.

[Oblahdeeoblahdoe]

Great news! Hope it all goes smoothly from now on.