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Great thanks for the heads up Spartacus!

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PS I have experienced many such scenarios and as a whole they'd be seen as doing overwhelmingly more bad than good. Very often the transaction falls apart, the seller's agent is sacked, and both buyers and sellers end up blaming not just the agent, but the other party. Additional and totally unnecessary legal costs start to soar as both parties try to claim the deposit. Seriously AVOID

1. A conveyancer once said something about some things. 2. If you were a seller don't you think you'd be interested in a previous viewer's tardy offer whether it was higher or lower than your currently agreed transaction? If it was a little higher then maybe you'd just be honourable and proceed as you are... but what if it was £50k higher - wouldn't you want to know so that you could potentially jump ships? Is a deposit really even relevant in that case? Say you're the buyer who's offering "x amount" more. Isn't the fact that the vendor's locked themselves in with another buyer a frustration? The Ombudsman's guidelines remove the need for such early deposits. Agents can help too. All there on TPO website. Hope that helps! Or we could work with the enviable Scottish system using missives... or we could also have vendors split stamp duty with buyers. Any opinions folks? ;-)

In England and Wales a very low percentage of transactions involve these deposits as they undermine and are contrary to several of The Property Ombudsman's guidelines

Just seen some plum on the guardian.com's lead image with a placard stating "Eating or Heating, no one should have to choose" I choose Eating every time anyway.

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Yeah, I can't believe Bill has bought the farm so early. I hated his bland BBC output but the old Etonian knew his stuff on Global. Getting myself checked again.