Gazumped example sentences

Related (10): outbid, swindled, cheated, tricked, robbed, deceived, hoodwinked, double-crossed, undercut, shafted.

"Gazumped" Example Sentences

We thought we had secured the property, but at the last minute we were gazumped by another buyer who offered more money.
I spent weeks negotiating the sale and then at the point of exchanging contracts, I was gazumped by another buyer.
My clients are furious; they have been gazumped by a cash buyer who has paid well over the asking price.
My dream home was on the market within my budget, but I got gazumped by a investor at the eleventh hour.
The sellers warned us that high number of lookers meant we were likely to get gazumped.
The estate agent told us we were the preferred buyers, but we still ended up getting gazumped.
It's a brutal process; half the people viewing properties end up getting gazumped.
Our mortgage was approved, a survey had been done, but we were still gazumped by another buyer.
I really thought we had secured the flat, but then at the final hurdle we were gazumped by someone offering more money.
We had fallen in love with that house, but in the end we got gazumped and had to start the whole process again.
He had negotiated the sale price and was ready to seal the deal, only to get gazumped at the last possible moment.
She was so upset after being gazumped that she swore she would never buy a property again.
After weeks of viewings and haggling over the price, they were told at the last minute that they had been gazumped.
He saved for years to get a foot on the property ladder, only to get gazumped multiple times before finally securing a flat.
The sellers waited until the last minute to tell us we had been gazumped, leaving us with no time to increase our offer.
We heard nothing for weeks, assumed we had the sale, then at the eleventh hour we were gazumped by a cash buyer.
Buying a house is so stressful, especially when you keep getting gazumped by people with deeper pockets.
He had fallen in love with the property and believed he had secured it, only to find out he had been gazumped by an investor paying well over the asking price.
After months of viewings and several failed offers, we were finally gazumped by someone matching our maximum bid.
House hunting soon loses its romance when you keep getting gazumped by faceless investors with bottomless pockets.
She needed a mortgage to buy the house, so in the end she got gazumped by a cash buyer who didn't have to wait for a loan approval.
In this mad property market, so many buyers are getting gazumped despite being approved for mortgages and willing to pay over the odds.
We spent all weekend talking about renovations and how we'd decorate the place, only to be gazumped by developers on Monday morning.
After looking at over 20 properties and making three offers we thought had been successful, we still ended up getting gazumped each time.
The sellers seemed keen to accept our offer, going so far as to take our surveyors' reports, but then gazumped us at the last minute.
In such a competitive market, almost everyone looking to buy property eventually ends up getting gazumped by someone willing to pay even more.
It took me months of fruitless viewings and disappointments before I finally secured a house, having been gazumped a half dozen times along the way.
Buying property has become like a game of poker, with buyers getting gazumped by those with bigger pockets and deeper stakes.
We had already agreed a price and were discussing conveyancing solicitors when we found out we had been gazumped by an offer 10k higher than ours.
Time and again we thought we had outbid all other interested buyers, only to get gazumped at the final hurdle by someone offering far more than we could.
After what felt like a never-ending stream of viewings and unsuccessful offers, we eventually managed to secure a place — without getting gazumped.
Our bid was accepted, we ordered surveys, yet just days before contracts were due to be exchanged we were gazumped by a cash buyer matching our top offer.
I spent months trawling property websites, falling in love with countless dream homes, only to get gazumped every single time.
We had been through this so many times before, going through the whole rigmarole of surveys and arranging finance, only to get gazumped at the last moment.
We thought we had secured the flat for asking price until we were told at the eleventh hour that we had been gazumped by someone offering 10% more.
The only reason we ended up with that flat was because all the other buyers got gazumped by richer people before it came down to us.
The process of buying a property usually involves weeks of fruitless house viewings, and months of disappointment as you keep getting gazumped by higher offers.
Despite months of tireless searching, I was still no closer to securing a property before finally purchasing the place that everyone else had already got gazumped on.
The housing market has become so competitive that most buyers nowadays go through the stress and heartbreak of repeatedly getting gazumped before finally managing to purchase a home.
Having a mortgage in principle made no difference; we still got gazumped time and again by people able to make bigger cash offers.
After another depressing experience of being gazumped by cash buyers, we decided to up our budget in order to outbid future competition.
Sellers have all the power in this crazy market; they string buyers along before gazumping them at the last moment in favor of higher offers.
In the end, we only managed to buy because the other two parties who had made higher offers both got gazumped on different properties at the same time.
The process of buying a house often involves the emotional rollercoaster of seeing your dream home, making an offer and dealing with the disappointment of being gazumped.
After weeks of negotiations, surveyors reports, and plans for renovations, we were blindsided to be told someone else had gazumped our agreed offer by 10%.
Every buyer thinks their offer is the best one until the gazumping happens, usually at the point of exchange when it's too late to increase your bid.
You'll likely go through multiple experiences of being gazumped before you eventually secure a property, so brace yourself for the emotional stress.
Even when we offered well over the asking price, we still kept getting gazumped by people paying even more — it was infuriating.
Being gazumped taught me that emotions have no place in buying property; you have to be ruthless, pragmatic and prepared to outbid everyone else.
The process of buying our first home involved so much heartbreak and disappointment as we kept getting gazumped — it took two years before we finally secured a place.
I was beyond furious at being gazumped, but it taught me some harsh realities about the property market that helped us eventually secure our dream house.
Getting gazumped so many times made me realize that emotion and sentimentality have no place in property purchases; it's a cutthroat business.
We thought gazumping happened only to other unlucky people, never to us — until our own experience taught us otherwise in the cruelest way.
The whole experience of being gazumped left a bitter taste and made us change tactics when making future offers on properties.
After so many failed attempts and disappointments of being gazumped, purchasing our first home felt like winning the lottery.
The harsh lesson of being gazumped taught us to change our approach when making offers — to be more assertive, higher and unwilling to be beaten next time.
We were all too familiar with the heartbreak of endless viewings and constant disappointment of being gazumped — until we finally found the place that was "ours".
Being gazumped on a home you had already fallen in love with is always emotionally bruising, but it hardens your resolve for the next attempt.