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I guess house buying turns normal people into twazzocks, so I get the impression that the viewer ended up making an offer.
Estate agent probably encouraged them to. An offer isn’t a bidding war.
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In these sort of issues I find that texts between the parties aren’t a particularly good way of communicating. Maybe suggest that you move to email to keep things a bit more formal - then he’s less likely to send shitty little messages that will stress you out.
Ps he’s being a dick.
Howard
Bainbridge
@snowy_again
Thanks for the answers and reassurance. I'd hoped for some more sausage based negotiating options. I'll send him a text explaining that it was all in the letter I sent, and that the next step is getting the mortgage lender to draw up the mortgage contract that allows us to exchange, so he's very close to getting what he wants in a v short time table - given that we only formally agreed my offer on the 31st of July.
On other things: He's had one other potential cash buyer viewing. He's selling through an estate agent of the fat tied blagger variety - who failed to turn up for the viewing, so I stupidly ended up doing it myself. I explained to the bloke viewing that I was also making an offer, and we swapped contact details, and at the time he said that he wouldn't get into a bidding war with a current tenant who was looking to buy it. I guess house buying turns normal people into twazzocks, so I get the impression that the viewer ended up making an offer.
I'm getting a relatively good deal on price. Knocked £30k off the original price - but they are typically slightly difficult to sell outside of cash buyers (although he and my neighbours currently have mortgages on them). However, the location, transport links, local park and schools plus the size means it's way cheaper than anything else you can get within a few miles.
The properties don't come up very often as there's only a small % in the block who are leaseholders. Having said that, my neighbours 2 bed flat's also on sale at the mo, but for almost 95k more.
I'll think more of sausage based solutions.