Offer accepted but house still on Rightmove? Is this normal

[HolidayHun2020]

Wondering if anyone has experienced this or knows what it means (if anything!)

We offered on a house a couple of weeks ago and sadly they accepted a lower offer from a FTB (we are in a chain). I think they had around 8 offers on the table in the end! It’s been over a week now, and the property is still live on their website and Rightmove…Is this normal? Surely if it hadn’t gone ahead they would have called us?

We would still be interested in the house, the EA knew how interested we were, so not sure if it’s worth a call. We haven’t officially sold yet so ideally I wouldn’t want to call until we have a solid offer! We should be getting one through imminently.

We had an offer accepted on a house earlier this year. They didn’t mark it as SSTC even after we had provided ID and solicitor checks. It turned out they were waiting for the whole chain to be complete.

I phoned a few times to find out what was happening “Oh I’m not sure, that agent is on leave”. “Oh we’re just waiting on solicitors”. Eventually they admitted the vendors were gazumped on their onward purchase. They asked us to give them 2 weeks to find something else. We had received no memorandum and it was still on Rightmove. We continued looking and found something better.

They did then find their onward purchase and I felt bad them being gazumped and losing us, but we just had no confidence. And it was a better house.

In PP's situation, it's less common sense and more cheekiness. They feel they have more to lose so not willing to risk being gazumped, but feel it's totally acceptable for their buyer to risk it, as it's less money and not theirs 🙄

To be fair, our buyer didn’t press for it to be removed and was ok with it staying up until mortgage offer through. If he had asked we would have considered but that’s for him to decide. He had also messed us about a bit previously so I had my reservations about him.

It’s not cheekiness it’s common sense.

It’s pretty simple, if the seller keep advertising the house after agreeing a sale with a buyer, a buyer should make it clear that she/he will carry on viewing properties too.

I don't live in the UK but it seems to be very very normal here. At least every 2 out of every 3 houses that I phone to enquire about are already sale agreed or sold. God knows why they like wasting my and their time.....every other phone call they get must be about these houses are already sold.

I had this last year. EA 'forgot' to update to SSTC status but assured me no-one else was being shown round. They then updated it very quickly. I suppose it keeps up interest just in case...