u/Impossible_Abies6445

Need a bit of a rant - England.
Have been viewing properties for a few months now, waiting for ours to sell.
We finally accepted an offer two weeks ago, and found the perfect house for us.
Viewed it on Saturday, was told that the previous buyer pulled out due to ‘potential asbestos’. Ok, not ideal but we can work around that.
Speaking to EA and advised if we want to offer, we need to do so quickly, with it being a BH I emailed across our offer and paperwork to cement our position as buyers and rang first thing Tuesday morning when they opened.
EA sounded happy we were putting an offer in, and would let the buyer know imminently.
Fast forward to 28 hours later, no confirmation that the offer had been put through, so I chased them up to see what is happening.
Turns out, they were waiting for more offers to come In before they informed the seller? So our offer has sat there for over 24 hours whilst they collated more.
Finally hear back 36 hours later. Seller has decided to ‘stick’ with an offer they received the previous week. I was told that they had received an offer already, that they had accepted it and are deciding to stick with it.
Why on earth was it on the market still? Why on earth were we allowed to view it?
All they’ve done is get our hopes up for absolutely no good outcome.
This is the first time I’ve sold and bought a house and it’s already feeling like it’s going to be my last.
The whole process is unnecessarily difficult, and estate agents are so greedy it makes my blood boil.