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Howard
my sister is looking to buy a flat at the moment and put an offer in on somewhere which was accepted, so she went ahead and arranged the survey. A week later the estate agent called her and said that someone had seen the flat at the same time as her and had put in a higher offer and would she like to match it. Obviously she was pissed off but said yes.
later that day she went onto the estate agents website and they had re uploaded the flat she'd had an offer accepted on but with a higher asking price.
That suggest to me that there was never a higher offer, and they were advertising a flat that had an offer on it as a new flat.
Is there anything illegal about doing this, or are they just regular estate agents playing tricks?
reading this I guess the latter https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jul/24/formal-offer-property-still-advertised