Estate agents: how do I go about gazumping and what do you really think about it?

[Gazumping101]

As the title says- are there any estate agents willing to suggest how best to make an offer on a house at least 6 weeks after an offer has been accepted on it? And do you care about whether people do it- is it just about money?

We accepted an offer from gazumpers about 6 weeks after having accepted another offer. The second offer was £110k more so it would have been insane to refuse it. The gazumpers were people who’d previously offered at the same level as the offer we’d accepted, but they weren’t proceedable. When they eventually became proceedable, they went large to secure the deal. By chance the people whose offer we had accepted, by that point had just lost their buyer so became unproceedable.

Right well thanks for your opinion but I didn’t ask for it and it means absolutely nothing.

The internet is an open place, hope that helps.

Worth a try I guess. What have you got to lose?

More sage advice, great! (I did ask for advice from estate agents, not people having a rant about estate agents and gloating that they’d sold all of two houses, and giving completely irrelevant advice, so, there is that).

Or, what often happens is they go back to their current buyers and see if they will up their offer.

You won't know until you try OP.