"G&M" wrote in message ...
"Owain" wrote in message
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If you had the Scottish system where offers are binding and missives are
concluded typically 10 days after closing date, Sold would mean sold.
(Then
again, only a small percentage of property gets near an estate agent in
the
first place :-)


We used to live in Scotland and on putting our property on the market to
move south again the first two offers we received were subject to agreeing
to use the English system so that they didn't have to pay for surveys
up-front.

Oh, that's given me a brilliant idea! What's to stop me from selling
my house the Scottish way, using sealed bids? That's not much
different, by the way, from an auction really, as in an auction no one
has any real idea what the property will eventually go for.

MM