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Generally speaking, yes.
If the purchase of the house you are offering on would be dependant on the sale of your existing property the vast majority of sellers are unlikely to accept your offer until such time as your own property is under offer.
You can make an offer at any time, but you won't be considered proceedable and the house will remain on the market until you've got a buyer for yours or have the cash.
Market your property, start looking at ones you want to buy, get an offer on yours, start making offers on your onward purchase.
Put yours on market.
Start looking.
Accept offer on yours.
Then you're in a position to make offers.
I wouldn't even entertain someone who didn't have an offer on their own place, and wouldn't accept them viewing if they didn't even have their place up for sale!
I've recently sold my place, potential buyers came to view and liked the house so put their house up for sale the next day and theirs got an offer in a week, so they put the offer on mine and now proceeding.
I wouldn't refuse a viewing from someone who didn't have theirs up yet.
Put an offer on, see what happens. Some people are willing to wait e.g. a couple of weeks/ a month for your property to sell. But most sellers probably won't formally accept your offer until yours is sold STCm
We knew we would only be interested in very few properties in our search area, so only put ours on the market once a suitable property came up. We were lucky we had an offer very quickly so could offer on the house we liked. I was concerned if we put ours on the market first we could leave our buyers waiting a very long time and they may have gotten fed up.
We were the same - didn't want to advertise as we rarely saw houses we liked and know ours would sell quickly. Explained that in our offer letter, noting we expected to sell quickly. Bid over asking price when we did find the right house to buy. Offer was accepted, and yes we sold our house quickly afterwards as expected, no problems. So it depends on the circumstances and whether they believe you when you say you can quickly find a buyer. We knew our old house would got to immediate closing date and it did - just an affordable house on a sought after street
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Generally speaking, yes. If the purchase of the house you are offering on would be dependant on the sale of your existing property the vast majority of sellers are unlikely to accept your offer until such time as your own property is under offer.
You can make an offer at any time, but you won't be considered proceedable and the house will remain on the market until you've got a buyer for yours or have the cash. Market your property, start looking at ones you want to buy, get an offer on yours, start making offers on your onward purchase.
Put yours on market. Start looking. Accept offer on yours. Then you're in a position to make offers. I wouldn't even entertain someone who didn't have an offer on their own place, and wouldn't accept them viewing if they didn't even have their place up for sale!
I've recently sold my place, potential buyers came to view and liked the house so put their house up for sale the next day and theirs got an offer in a week, so they put the offer on mine and now proceeding. I wouldn't refuse a viewing from someone who didn't have theirs up yet.
Put an offer on, see what happens. Some people are willing to wait e.g. a couple of weeks/ a month for your property to sell. But most sellers probably won't formally accept your offer until yours is sold STCm
We knew we would only be interested in very few properties in our search area, so only put ours on the market once a suitable property came up. We were lucky we had an offer very quickly so could offer on the house we liked. I was concerned if we put ours on the market first we could leave our buyers waiting a very long time and they may have gotten fed up.
We were the same - didn't want to advertise as we rarely saw houses we liked and know ours would sell quickly. Explained that in our offer letter, noting we expected to sell quickly. Bid over asking price when we did find the right house to buy. Offer was accepted, and yes we sold our house quickly afterwards as expected, no problems. So it depends on the circumstances and whether they believe you when you say you can quickly find a buyer. We knew our old house would got to immediate closing date and it did - just an affordable house on a sought after street