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The Agent was very good at keeping us informed when action was needed and they followed our instructions throughout. The house took quite a while to sell once it was on the market and maybe the agent could have been more proactive. In the end things got a little complicated as we instructed them to accept the lower of two offers on the house. The reason for this being that the buyer was not in a chain and we also felt she was the right person for the house. This actually meant that the agent lost a house sale as they were also instructed to sell the house of a prospective buyer who unfortunately withdrew his offer to us and put in a much lower offer when his house was sold. He came back with a higher offer on the same day as our final buyer also made their offer albeit £1000 less! We instructed Merryweathers to accept the lower offer for reasons already stated. The next day the other buyer attempted to gazump our buyer by offering Several thousand pounds more! We felt that to accept that offer was immoral having already agreed a sale so I contacted the agent and instructed them to refuse the higher offer on those grounds. The agents response was to say “ thank goodness you are thinking the same way as us” .That one sentence proved to me that we had chosen the right agent in the end. One with principles!... Read more
14th Dec 2024 (8 weeks ago)