do estate agents have an obligation to be honest?

[mightymouse]

to the OP

you are making a classic mistake of falling in love with the property. I know it might see difficult now but you shouldn't have done what you did. There are plenty of properties out there and I am sure if you missed this one then another with better this and better that will turn up.

I would say that you stick with the 53k offer. If i were you i would have told them that if you refused my offer now then dont come back to me until you are able to accept 50. in the mean time look for others, other EAs. With this current economic climate I am pretty sure its a buyer's market. so long as you have the money or can get a loan you are a catch. dont listen to all their nonsense.

on average it takes us around half a year to complete a sale in germany and france but over there the buyer's protection is a lot better. i will be looking into buying our first property in the uk soon but i am still waiting for prices to drop a bit.

remember that you'ill be played round after round till they milk you dry.

my golden rule in life "never trust bankers, estate agents and car salesman!, they will always try to rip you off!!"

sorry if it offends anyone

good luck

[Lucio]

well after no contact from the EA about the 53k offer i made, i decided to stretch to my upper limit and outbid the current offer of 55k.

so on Monday i called the EA to be told that the 55k offer from the "couple" had been accepted.... so on Tuesday i put in an offer of 56 only to be called back and told that the seller had accepted an offer of 58.5k from the other "company"

what can i do, im sure they are lying / braking some law somewhere. is there any laws that could help me get the truth.. IE freedom of info act or something similar?? im 99.9% sure that there is no other Couple or Company... im also 99.9% sure the EA's need a good shoeing

One way to check up on an estate agent, get a friend to view the place, and then put an offer in instead of you raising your own offer, then see if the agent calls them with the new fake bids, or calls you back.

[mightymouse]

i thought he asked his mum to do that

i came to the conclusion i was being taken for a mug, so i asked my dear old mum to call the estate agent as another potential buyer. the agent said they have only received one offer..

i'm pretty sure these EA's cannot be trusted. they are giving you so much trouble and being so dishonest, just imagine how much more trouble you'd get if you signed on the dotted line.