We have been living in our home for 10 years. A house is up for sale (executor sale) in the same estate with a bigger garden.
The house was sale agreed but the sale fell though. We expressed interest to the EA (with an offer) and asked them to take the house of the market while we sell our own. It is a risk for them but we thought they might be happy to agree a price in a falling market.
They refused saying that they wouldn't consider our offer unless we were sale agreed on our own. We love the estate where we live (Dublin 7) and we don't want to live anywhere else. If we put our own up for sale and the other one sells we would have to withdraw our own.
Are we foolish? Is this going to be a problem in the future every time a house comes up we like?
The house was sale agreed but the sale fell though. We expressed interest to the EA (with an offer) and asked them to take the house of the market while we sell our own. It is a risk for them but we thought they might be happy to agree a price in a falling market.
They refused saying that they wouldn't consider our offer unless we were sale agreed on our own. We love the estate where we live (Dublin 7) and we don't want to live anywhere else. If we put our own up for sale and the other one sells we would have to withdraw our own.
Are we foolish? Is this going to be a problem in the future every time a house comes up we like?