We recently sold my father's house after he passed away. We initially had 3 estate agents out to value -one said roughly what I thought it should go for, one 15-20k lower, the third one obviously wasn't interested as she quoted even lower and straight to auction - needless to say she didn't get very far. We got another 3, two were around the top valuation and one a bit lower.
Chose one (actually the only one who kept ringing to see if we were ready), within 3 weeks wanted to reduce which was refused, after several more weeks one buyer offered/counter offered and then accepted but 10k lower than what we wanted -went through to solicitors, he tried to reduce again after we had accepted but we wouldn't so he dropped out of sale. A couple of weeks later another buyer made an offer lower than what we had accepted before Estate agent said you won't get more, which if it had been only concerning myself would have told him where to go but there was my brother and sister involved as well so went with the majority.
If/when I sell my house I will hold out more, but when you are selling with other beneficiaries it is more awkward.
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