A preemptive offer is submitted before the seller’s stated offer date. Done right, it can convince the seller to cancel their offer timeline and accept before competing buyers have a chance to engage. It needs to be clean, compelling, and high enough to make stopping the process worth it for the seller.
Not every listing is a good candidate. Some agents won’t present them, some sellers want full market exposure. I help buyers evaluate when a preemptive offer genuinely improves their odds versus when it just escalates price unnecessarily.