Ok long story short. I have recently been bidding on a house. At present we are the only interested party and this house has been on the market for a while. Initially it was too expensive and was reduced about a month ago. The vendors don't seem to be in any rush, the EA was a bit vague when I asked were they in a hurry or where they are moving on to. We have told the EA that we will sell our house with them if we go sale agreed on the other house. So we made an offer and EA has come back that he has strongly recommended the Vendor accept. Turns out they are in debt and need approval from the bank that this amount can be accepted. So I don't know whats going on but I don't want the whole rigmarole of going through selling our own and messing ourselves and someone else about if they are just going to drag this out for as long as they can. Anyone any experience of this, EA assures me they are moving on. But he has to say that. There are two scenarios, this could all go in our favour as we need time, our own is not even on the market. Or they may plan on just sitting in the house and never signing the contract, claiming at the time that they are not getting market value (I know of someone this happened to). Any advice welcome. We really like the house and are in zero rush ourselves but have never been in this situation.