That's exactly right niks and exactly what I told them.
How can you make a statement like that if it is not in the bag.
I work in Real Estate and it would be the equivalent of me advising the marketplace of a conditional contract for sale that is very shaky.
I would be ridiculed by all and sundry (And rightly so). Who cares what they are negotiating, it only matters what they secure, that is the only thing that can we can make decisions on