We've just agreed to buy a house after keeping in touch with the seller after we both took our houses off the market. We kept them informed as we did some work to our place, stuck it back on the market and accepted an offer. The estate agent has been kept informed but has been a little bit confused that we already know what's going on before he calls. We both found the agent to be very disappointing, we started off with them and the people we're buying from stuck with them for a few months. After about four weeks they stopped being able to send round someone to show prospective buyers round the house, so we had to do it, and we then found the people looking round were looking for something completely differnt and apologetic that they'd been sent round to waste our time. Surprise surprise, the people we're buying from had the same treatment. We can't wait to get it over and done with.