I am a first time buyer. I am really disappointed about what happened. The name of the estate agent in Salford is Elios Lamsehchi. He confirmed to me that he would only accept one bid and the deadline to make an offer (online in their website) was at 4pm - no further offers would be accepted. I made an offer 10 minutes to 4pm. I received an email that I had the winning bid and he also called me at about 4:15 to confirm that my offer had been accepted and to let me know about the next steps (completing online questionaires, finding solicitor etc). At about 5pm i received another call from him telling me that he had another offer that came through after he had accepted my offer and that offer was higher so he he let the vendor know about this and the vendor accepted the new offer. He apologised and he said that this is practise that he doesn't like to go down and that he let the other people that they cannot make other offers. Then i told him that i wanted to make another higher offer and he accepted but he told me to do it immidiately. I think it is really unethical and unprofessional because he accepted another offer after the deadline and after he had confirmed (via email and over the phone) that my offer had been accepted. He had already confirmed to me that he was not going to do this. It's not the ventors fault that she accepted a higher offer (even if it was after the deadline i was given by the estate agent). It is the estate agent's fault because he set the terms and he chose to let the ventor know about this new offer that came after the official deadline. It would not feel too bad if my offer had been rejected at the first place, but now i started making plans about me moving to the new home. The letting agent of Yopa commited a fraud i think since he violated the terms of the game he set treating buyers unfairly.That was the first time i did an offer to buy a property. At least I learned something about how those things work and especially how Yopa (dis) respects the buyers.