Gazumped by Trupennys and MYN Properties

[maroberts82]

Hi

We have recently been gazumped by a buyer with Trupennys.

The vendor of MYN Properties in East Dulwich: (http://www.mynproperties.com) accepted our offer, sent us the contract, told us we had 3 weeks to exchange contracts, and said that he would be taking the flat off with the other agents. I called Trupennys and the other agents and all said the flat was under offer with another agent (the estate agent we were using).

10 days later (on the same day we were about to send MYN's solicitors our contract with amendments), their solicitor told ours that MYN had exchanged contracts with someone else. This is after their solicitor had told us our offer had been accepted and he hadn't told us at any time that he had accepted someone else's offer. Is it legal to accept two offers at the same time without withdrawing the first offer?

The owner of MYN Properties has done this with other people also causing them to lose thousands of pounds in solicitor's fees as well as time.

Thanks & Regards

Mark