We are seriously interested in a house we've seen. The estate agent reckons the seller will take around 207/210,000. We got an approval in principle through a broker for 130,000 (as that's what we asked for) as our house is worth around 140,000 (some of the funds we will keep and some will pay off a debt, around 100,00 will be kept toward our new house). Our application is now gone in for full approval.
The EA selling the house we are interested in has said that the buyer wants us to sell our house through them as they think it'll be easier and less hassle. We are aware our house is in a sought after location for investors and has previously gone sale agreed with 2 weeks of going on the market.
We had been in contact with our old estate agent that our sale fell through with tears ago and had said we would go with them but never signed anything or put up online yet. I feel super bad letting this agent down but I can see why it makes sense to go with the same agent.
I suppose my question is would it be normal to do things this way?
The EA selling the house we are interested in has said that the buyer wants us to sell our house through them as they think it'll be easier and less hassle. We are aware our house is in a sought after location for investors and has previously gone sale agreed with 2 weeks of going on the market.
We had been in contact with our old estate agent that our sale fell through with tears ago and had said we would go with them but never signed anything or put up online yet. I feel super bad letting this agent down but I can see why it makes sense to go with the same agent.
I suppose my question is would it be normal to do things this way?