EM Lawrence
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Do you think brokers sometimes change the status of listings to either “sale pending” or “offer accepted” when what has really happened is that the listing has been deactivated or pulled by the seller?
I put in an offer with a broker and they claimed the seller would not respond when they tried to reach out, so they told me they were going to deactivate the listing due to an unresponsive seller. I had no reason to believe they were not telling the the truth. Then the next day the listing I had bid on was showing as “sale pending” insead of disappearing.
There are also a few other listings with a different broker that were listed much higher than current market price (even just based on the other listings from the same broker) and had notifications on them that the sellers would only accept full price offers. Now they are sale pending. So either the broker is being misleading, or the seller found someone who REALLY REALLY wanted that listing badly enough to overpay for it after it had been sitting on the website unsold for months. Things that make you go hmmmmm.
I put in an offer with a broker and they claimed the seller would not respond when they tried to reach out, so they told me they were going to deactivate the listing due to an unresponsive seller. I had no reason to believe they were not telling the the truth. Then the next day the listing I had bid on was showing as “sale pending” insead of disappearing.
There are also a few other listings with a different broker that were listed much higher than current market price (even just based on the other listings from the same broker) and had notifications on them that the sellers would only accept full price offers. Now they are sale pending. So either the broker is being misleading, or the seller found someone who REALLY REALLY wanted that listing badly enough to overpay for it after it had been sitting on the website unsold for months. Things that make you go hmmmmm.
