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Well we won't be moving here...... lol.... The house was originally on the market for £160k, we offered the full asking price in the first 10 minutes and we upped it a couple of grand over the following days.......... Having sold our property to the neighbour and the banks & brokers confirming everything was ok, we then went back to the agent in Wales an offered £300k last Friday morning which we were more than willing to pay..... Silence all day from the agent, unusual as you'd normally get a call back within an hour or so.... Saturday emailed the agent confirming the offer... no response..... Today the wife emailed them again, no response from the agent, So I then emailed the agent and told them I was beginning to smell a rat between them and a developer....... within 30 minutes of this email a response arrived saying the vendor had considered the £300k cash offer over the weekend....... And decided to stick with the original £160,500 cash sale..... I get the distinct feeling the vendor has no idea what has been going on...... or I'm living in La la land........

Originally Posted by Barney

“the vendor had considered the £300k cash offer over the weekend....... And decided to stick with the original £160,500 cash sale..... I get the distinct feeling the vendor has no idea what has been going on...... or I'm living in La la land........”

erm that makes absolutely no sense?

If you fancy living in Bills Town and want to offer me double, then the house is yours 

Makes no sense to me either.... I believe the agent is in cahoot with the guy who originally tried to warn me off..... I don't believe for one minute the agent has forwarded any of our offers, initially I believed the house / land was under valued and that's one of the reasons we went for it.... From the outset the agent has put up barriers to prevent us from purchasing the property, now I don't believe people turn down £10k price increases.... it just doesn't happen even less so if you double the price...The agent has a legal obligation to forward all offers to the vendor up until the exchange of contracts.... most offers are either accepted or declined within an hour or two. It was only after I emailed the agent to say that I was beginning to smell a rat that they replied.....saying the vendors had turned down all offers....

So I'm going to go back on Saturday morning in the hope of catching the vendor, now if he/she is fine with everything I'll leave it at that.... as someone said £10k to the vendor is a lot.... but 1.5% of £10k to the agent isn't much if your going to get a £5k back hander from a developer..... 

There is an ombudsman,but they will only get involved if I lose money which I'm not however hard I try too on this property...

Was at the vets this morning and was telling the vet about it..... First thing he said was, is that they don't turn £10k in Wales...ever...

I remember driving round South Wales a couple of years ago on a Sunday, and couldn't find anywhere to eat. Everywhere was shut  Is a beautiful country though.