Offer on house if it's accepted.... please read on?

Question

Hi im viewing a house today, judging by the pics, size and area i am very interested and i am looking at putting an offer in. (Might change my mind when i see it thought lol) If the offer is accepted can i ask the agent to cancel other viewings that they have for the property? and also can i ask them to take the house off the market. Obviously this offer if any at all with be sunject to contract etc. xx

Answer 1

No there might be a higher offer.

Answer 2

Going through the same thing, yes you can request to stop viewings and is up to vendor if they do or not, if they agree to your terms they have to cancel all viewings booked. They won't take it off the market until sold though.

Answer 3

Until contracts are signed they or you could potentially do what you want. Ie take of the market or not as the case may be. The seller would be silly to do this in case your offer falls through. However if you offer them an agreeable price you could push them to see if they would accept subject to survey etc.

Answer 4

Firstly, are you in the UK? and are you a first time buyer with a mortgage approved, or a buyer with your own property sold?  If the answer is yes to those questions, you can ask the seller to ride a unicycle with a pineapple on their head and they would probably agree.

There are so few buyers around, and in this terrible market, sellers will bite your hand off to get you to buy their property. You have every chance of succeeding, and will probably be able to put a much lower offer in too.

Good luck, I wish you were buying my house!  

Answer 5

we did that with our house...we put an offer in on the friday night, and knew there were other viewings on the saturday, we asked the agents to speak to the seller, and say that if the offer is accepted can all viewings be cancelled and the house off the market. the seller agreed to our offer and the house was taken off the market as requested.

if the seller is happy with the offer, then they have no reason to show to anyone else anyway!

Answer 6

If you put a contract on it, the people that currently own the house have the option to continue showing to get back-up offers (in case yours doesn't go through for some reason, or the home inspections fails...etc...) or they can choose no more showings.  If they get your offer first, it will overrule the others, as long as everything works out.  Like example, you put an offer on the house that states that you have to sell your other house by a certain date, and if it doesn't then the contract is void, so they would either have to show again or they would have back up offers.  I hope this makes sense.  Congrats!

Answer 7

The answers are yes, you can ask, likely they will not do what you are asking.  Until the ink is dry at closing it's still the sellers home and they can show it to whomever they want.  

If your offer has "kick-able" contingencies, and they get a better offer, they could kick your contract out and take the new offer.

They can also take backup offers, in case yours doesn't go to settlement.

Answer 8

Nooooo! If they have other viewings scheduled they will still show it and it doesn't go off the market until closing. A lot can fall through until closing. Our closing date is tomorrow and it is still on the market until then. You may not get a loan, they may not even accept your offer, etc. Take it slow and do your research about the process. It can be exciting but very stressful. The selling agent and seller may not even take you seriously if you ask that. You should get a buying agent.

Answer 9

If accepted, the seller will inform the estate agent will put a sign on the For Sale "Under Offer".  

Answer 10

Yes, I mean u can view the property but do not give any advance or a token amount till the time u r sure of shifting.

Answer 11

You can ask, but they won't agree to doing so.  The property is on the market for the highest and best offer.  It will continue to be shown even AFTER there is an accepted offer from you.  The reason?  Some buyers have been known to 'walk', and the listing agent will continue to work to obtain secondary offers in the event that the primary offer fails to close.

Answer 12

Yes and yes. You make your offer subject to the vendor agreeing to remove the property from the market and cancelling all other viewings. Then the vendor has several options:

1) He can reject your offer.

2) He can accept your offer with the conditions.

3) He can accept your offer but reject the conditions - he's hoping for a better offer.

4) He can say that he'll accept your offer if it still stands after a period of time, usually 7 or 14 days. He's putting the house "under offer" and this is a more honest and open way of doing (3).

If your offer is rejected, you can raise it, leave it on the table or walk away. If your offer is accepted, that's great. If he responds with (3) or (4), you can raise the offer to clinch the deal, sit it out and hope no one else makes an offer or you can withdraw your offer because he has not met your conditions. If he responds with (3), you can ask the agent to try and persuade him to make it (4).

I hope this helps and isn't too confusing.

Edit.

I realize that you don't say where you are. My advice applies to England and Wales but not Scotland. I don't know about Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic or any other country.