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Itsrainingten · 2024-08-05T14:55:45+00:00

We viewed a house about 6 weeks ago. Loved it. Had a second viewing and wanted to make an offer. Spoke to seller, explaining we were awaiting an offer on our house first but we had someone who had seen it 3 times and was apparently "just waiting for her husband to return from his business trip on Friday" and then would offer on ours. Well unsurprisingly she then went radio silence. I was in touch with sellers EA regularly letting them know we wanted it but still weren't in a proceedable (?) position. Even put forward a full asking price offer if they'd hold on for us. They didn't want to wait. Fair enough. Well this morning I looked on RM and it says it's SSTC. It wasn't on Friday. Thing is we've literally (like 2 hours ago) accepted an offer on ours so now we ARE proceedable. We are considering getting in touch and offering them £750k - asking price was £735. What do you think? Is this too immoral? Would you do it?

housethatbuiltme · 08/08/2024 15:40

Itsrainingten · 05/08/2024 16:22

Yeah I know. But as of today we ARE in a position to sell. I think of they only accepted an offer on Saturday (which is my guess btw I don't actually know - basing it on it going SSTC today. Then the other buyers won't have actually spent any money on it yet like surveys etc. I dunno. I get what you're saying about them "missing out on their dream house" but then we've wanted it for weeks, they JUST came along. Is it really that bad a thing to do? The sellers can always say no if they think it's dickish behaviour

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It can take ages (days or weeks even) after an offer to go SSTC. Do you actually know about house buying?

You don't go SSTC until you provided 2 forms of ID, they confirm your money supply and proceedability and they contact your solicitor to send the memorandum of sale. That takes more than one day are is unlikely to occur on a weekend.

housethatbuiltme · 08/08/2024 15:51

Itsrainingten · 05/08/2024 16:28

They definitely weren't in the same position. Like I said I've been in contact with the EA pretty much every week. I don't know when they first saw it but they hadn't had any serious interest 2 Saturdays ago (that's when I last spoke to them because we went on holiday)

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The EA isn't allowed to give you any information about other buyers, offers or whats happening, they don't work for you regardless but it would be a breach of confidentially and massively inappropriate.

They a palming off your inappropriate questions with standard non committal answers, you know nothing about whats going on because you literally can't know anything and are showing a lack of understanding of the house buying process.

You offered and where turned down, thats the facts. You have then repeatedly contacted the agent asking for inappropriate information despite being turned away. Even if you offered more they already decided you aren't a good fit and your behavior hasn't shown otherwise.

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Itsrainingten · 08/08/2024 16:48

housethatbuiltme · 08/08/2024 15:51

The EA isn't allowed to give you any information about other buyers, offers or whats happening, they don't work for you regardless but it would be a breach of confidentially and massively inappropriate.

They a palming off your inappropriate questions with standard non committal answers, you know nothing about whats going on because you literally can't know anything and are showing a lack of understanding of the house buying process.

You offered and where turned down, thats the facts. You have then repeatedly contacted the agent asking for inappropriate information despite being turned away. Even if you offered more they already decided you aren't a good fit and your behavior hasn't shown otherwise.

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Thanks for your aggressive posts there. If you read my updates you'd see that the offer was in fact accepted the SAME day as I saw it changed on RM. The agent confirmed that. They also put my offer forward and the seller turned it down with a promise to contact us if it fell through which is fair enough.
Not really sure why you're getting so angry about my behaviour and "inappropriate" questions really.

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WestminsterWanderer · 08/08/2024 16:52

housethatbuiltme · 08/08/2024 15:40

It can take ages (days or weeks even) after an offer to go SSTC. Do you actually know about house buying?

You don't go SSTC until you provided 2 forms of ID, they confirm your money supply and proceedability and they contact your solicitor to send the memorandum of sale. That takes more than one day are is unlikely to occur on a weekend.

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Took less than 3 hours for us.

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Itsrainingten · 08/08/2024 16:54

WestminsterWanderer · 08/08/2024 16:52

Took less than 3 hours for us.

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Exactly. And a day on my sale. So I'd say the one who doesn't know what they're talking about despite their haughty know it all manner is actually @housethatbuiltme ...

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je11ycats · 08/08/2024 19:57

Ours was also SSTC the day after our offer was accepted.

I think this is a fair outcome, like people have said, what's for you won't pass you by. I hope you find something else soon that suits your needs. Sales fall through all the time, so you'll get this one if you're meant to. Otherwise, rightmove every day!

Revolutionfrommybed77 · 19/09/2025 19:56

Just lost our dream home because someone gazumped. It's been SSTC for 3 weeks now, we were getting ready to move, getting quotes for the work that needs to be done. We met the seller, the kids picked their rooms. I got the call this morning that someone offered above asking price and that it was accepted and we're out. I won't lie, I was in tears, it was such a shock.
I don't think I could do that to anyone, not after having experienced it from the other side.

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Itsrainingten · 19/09/2025 20:45

Sorry to hear that @Revolutionfrommybed77 that's a shame. FWIW we are now living in the house that I wrote this post about. The other buyers buggered about for months and in the end the seller lost patience and asked the EA to contact us and see if we were still interested. As it turned out we'd been ready to exchange on another house (that actually wasn't quite as nice) when the douchebag sellers changed their mind and decided they didn't want to sell! We'd lost the conveyancing costs, the survey, everything. But we DID get the house we'd wanted right at the beginning. So take heart if that house WAS the one for you it'll work out. Otherwise you'll find something better. It might not seem like that now but I reckon it's true

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mmsnet · 19/09/2025 23:11

Itsrainingten · 19/09/2025 20:45

Sorry to hear that @Revolutionfrommybed77 that's a shame. FWIW we are now living in the house that I wrote this post about. The other buyers buggered about for months and in the end the seller lost patience and asked the EA to contact us and see if we were still interested. As it turned out we'd been ready to exchange on another house (that actually wasn't quite as nice) when the douchebag sellers changed their mind and decided they didn't want to sell! We'd lost the conveyancing costs, the survey, everything. But we DID get the house we'd wanted right at the beginning. So take heart if that house WAS the one for you it'll work out. Otherwise you'll find something better. It might not seem like that now but I reckon it's true

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