House taken off the market - contact seller directly?

[Carmel]

We sold our house last year and have been looking for a house since then (in South Dublin). Last weekend, we saw a house that ticked all of our boxes and was within our price range. We had arranged a second viewing for today, but the estate agent rang and said that it had been taken off the market. We're really gutted as we have been looking for a long time and we really liked this house.

We have no information on why the house was taken off the market. We were told that it was an executor sale. We are considering writing to the owner at the property address asking them to contact us should they put the property back on the market in the next month and offer the asking price.

Would this be a good idea? What do we have to lose?

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Nothing at all to lose.

Is it still being advertised? Was there a sign up outside, and if so, has it been taken down?

Knock on the door to see if there is anyone living there. If there isn't, knock on the next door neighbour's door and ask them what they know. They will probably know who the executor is.

Brendan

 

[Carmel]

House taken off the market

Hi Brendan
The house was advertised for the first time last week and the first open viewing was last Saturday. There was no sign. It has been removed from myhome.ie though.