Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: OT: Putting in an offer for a house Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 09:34:18 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net P2lYcMn9cRMOAvWDOkvAfQB26B9OP+0Z9JIwvNnEH0jqMQjbDS Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Ar4jJ1rvOZGs4qQhG/JUF95MZ8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2083 On 30/06/2022 23:28, Pete Zahut wrote: > Maybe I'm being paranoid but it's 38 years since we moved in here and > I'm not au fait with modern practices. > > I believe the estate agent has a legal responsibility to pass on to the > vendor any and all offers made on their property - but are the > prospective buyers afforded the same courtesy? > > We made a (cheeky) offer on a property on Monday but have heard nothing > since. The least I would have expected would have been "Piss off you > cheeky gits" with an invitation to amend our offer upwards, but nothing > at all has come back from the agents. > > I'm wondering if the agents are deliberately keeping us out of the loop > now and letting other people view and offer, before we get a second > chance. We fully expected (and are more than willing) to come up nearer > to the asking price. Surely that's the whole point of negotiation? > > What would you do? Contact the agent again and ask what's going on or > just sit tight and wait? I always liked making direct contact with the seller as well as going through the estate agent. Direct lines of communications can speed things up at later stages.