Felt the need to vent this somewhere.
Offered asking price for a house a few weeks ago on the spot at viewing - seller had 20 other viewings lined up that week (according to estate agent), and understandably wanted those to finish. Someone came in £5k over, so we beat that by £2k.
We want to be in by April at the latest as my wife is due to give birth mid-May. Estate agent advised that the seller had the flexibility of moving into a rental or another property they own. Seller has been faffing for a few weeks as they weren’t sure they wanted to sell for what we were offering(despite it being £7k over asking, and despite lots of interest but no other offers).
Today we said we’d pull our offer if we didn’t get an answer today. Seller ends up accepting after some pressure from the agent, but that they don’t want to move into a rental or their other property, so will only be ready to move once they’ve found somewhere to buy.
Do I suck it up and move on? To be in with a chance of exchanging and completing by April, I’ve been working on the assumption that I need to have had an offer accepted this side of Christmas.
On the plus side, there’s an almost identical house (Victorian terrace) for sale a few roads over, with no chain; the down side is it needs work doing to it and the asking price is the same as the other one!
Offered asking price for a house a few weeks ago on the spot at viewing - seller had 20 other viewings lined up that week (according to estate agent), and understandably wanted those to finish. Someone came in £5k over, so we beat that by £2k.
We want to be in by April at the latest as my wife is due to give birth mid-May. Estate agent advised that the seller had the flexibility of moving into a rental or another property they own. Seller has been faffing for a few weeks as they weren’t sure they wanted to sell for what we were offering(despite it being £7k over asking, and despite lots of interest but no other offers).
Today we said we’d pull our offer if we didn’t get an answer today. Seller ends up accepting after some pressure from the agent, but that they don’t want to move into a rental or their other property, so will only be ready to move once they’ve found somewhere to buy.
Do I suck it up and move on? To be in with a chance of exchanging and completing by April, I’ve been working on the assumption that I need to have had an offer accepted this side of Christmas.
On the plus side, there’s an almost identical house (Victorian terrace) for sale a few roads over, with no chain; the down side is it needs work doing to it and the asking price is the same as the other one!
