Hubby and I are planning to relocate from SE London. We are very, very indecisive regarding where to but that's not the reason for this post. We have already determined the next house purchase won't be forever and is a move for a good primary school for our eldest. Unfortunately schools in our current area are a bit hit and miss. We are all new to this house search but early days in we've had a couple EAs tell us they have buyers who won't allow us to see a specific property unless we are 'under offer'. We are massively early days (scarcely a week) and our property has not yet been marketed or put on the usual websites: Rightmove; OnTheMarket; Zoopla etc. We have all but instructed the EA we want them to sell our house and yet to sign the actual agreement. So no viewings and all of that. Anyway, while we somewhat understand this it still seems a bit hypocritical to expect your buyers to be under offer when you yourself are clearly not 'under offer'. Is this EAs just trying to get a quick sell to look good OR are sellers really saying this? Just trying to understand the rationale as to why anyone would insist on this as the logic seems a bit flawed. It could quite simply land up like a vicious circle if you refuse to accept viewings from potential buyers who aren't 'under offer'.