i think i will increase my offer to $330k, if thats not accepted i'll walk.330k is still a reasonable price to pay for the house. It meets all our needs and is in the location that we want, and below the average price for that area.Just have to word a good offer now and see what happens!

Thanks for all your comments,

I’m thinking of approaching the vendor directly and seeing if we can negotiate a private sale.
It might be abit unethical but I’m having far to much trouble with this agent.
Presuably due being on the market for so long it should be out of the ‘exclusive period’

Thanks Adam,i've been trying to analyze the situation for over a week now, driving me crazy.I just checked now and its back on the rental market now. So not sure if they are playing games. Might just be a really useless agent with a combination of a stubborn/unrealistic vendor.Theres a slight change of me being able to secure some more money to up…[Read more]