| Comment | When I made an offer before a closing date scenario
(there were no other notes of interest so it didn’t go to that stage) it was actually the estate agent for the sellers who followed up with me to ask if I liked it and what my offer was.
It was being sold by kids of elderly parent so there was probably an incentive to lock in a purchase ASAP.
I know that sometimes estate agents will ‘front’ as if there is more than one note of interest so you push to your maximum / best offer. As in, even tho it is only you interested officially, they might still make it a closing date scenario to add the pressure.
However, I would say that at the moment it’s a very popular time so unless it’s been on the market for a while and is a mad fixer-upper, chances are that there are several notes of interest for real. It’s not unusual to pay 5-7% (or more) over the home report value (sadly) |
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