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Mon 2007-03-12 16:37
Well, so much for that one then

Today I had a phone call from the estate agent through whom I made an offer on a house ten days ago. Throughout all of last week she was giving me running updates on her efforts to merely get in touch with the seller and let him know there'd been an offer. Apparently he was extremely hard to contact.

She called me again this morning. The seller has decided he wants to keep his house after all, so he's taken it completely off the market. Bah!

(He had previously cancelled my attempted second viewing of the house at fifteen minutes' notice, which led Mum to speculate that he didn't really seem to want to sell his house. Absolutely accurately, it seems!)

Back to the drawing board, then, I suppose…

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[identity profile] dave hollandMon 2007-03-12 16:43
This is apparently quite common. Vendors want to know how much their house is worth, and rather than figuring it out from the last week's property paper they'd rather get (and ignore) an estate agent's estimate, suffer the hassle of several viewings, and then when the offers come in, take the house off the market.

The slight silver lining is that the estate agent is probably as irritated as you are, and may give the vendor a hard time if they try again in the future.
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[identity profile] j4.livejournal.comMon 2007-03-12 17:09
But surely you can get a slightly better valuation than "look at the property pages" without having to actually put your house on the market?? e.g. getting estimates from a couple estate agents, to decide which one to sell your house with?

[livejournal.com profile] simont, good luck finding something else soon (preferably something which isn't being 'sold' by timewasting idiots!!).
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[personal profile] simontMon 2007-03-12 17:17
The offer I put in was significantly lower than the estate agent's asking price, so perhaps he wanted to know what sort of offers he'd really get instead of trusting the estate agent's estimate.

(Mind you, my offer was an opening bid and I'd have been willing to raise it, so if that was his plan then perhaps he screwed himself.)
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[personal profile] aldabraMon 2007-03-12 19:08
That's exactly what happened with the flat I wanted last summer, and I'm still regretful about it. Wondering whether to write to her with a higher bid, still 8-( Bastards, all of them.
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[identity profile] gareth-rees.livejournal.comMon 2007-03-12 17:13
They could just look at houseprices.co.uk (http://houseprices.co.uk/), which has actual sale prices, not (highly misleading) asking prices and (somewhat misleading) offers.
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[identity profile] ceb.livejournal.comMon 2007-03-12 19:09
Oh well, keep looking. Nice ones come up surprisingly often.
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[identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.comMon 2007-03-12 22:55
Ugh, just like the place on Chesterton High Street that Ross and me looked at. *Hug*, and beware the vendor who gives any sign of vacillating, expecially in a town whose property prices are constantly talked up.
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[identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.comTue 2007-03-13 10:24
Bugger.

*hug*
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