Had an offer we made on a property verbally accepted. The agent spoke to the seller who was (seemingly) happy with the offer and it was noted “under offer” on all advertising platforms. That was on the Saturday and our solicitor was to fax through the written offer on the Monday. So far so good. Except my solicitor couldn’t get hold of the agent and she didn’t respond to his messages. I had a call late in the afternoon to say another offer had come through that morning which was 4K more than ours - and the seller wanted us to match it. Now we are straying into gazumping territory and we don’t really tolerate that within our system here in Scotland. Plus it’s just a shitty thing to do. We’ve withdrawn our offer and have had no contact from Yopa. We are about to sell but now we’ve had a taste of how these big call centre estate agents operate we won’t touch them with a barge pole. Beware buyers and sellers