diff --git a/src/Locks.test.ts b/src/Locks.test.ts
index 409bf00a..9803acf8 100644
--- a/src/Locks.test.ts
+++ b/src/Locks.test.ts
@@ -126,6 +126,35 @@ describe('Locks', () => {
       expect(emitSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith('update', lockEvent(member, 'locked'));
     });
 
+    it<SpaceTestContext>('keeps a resolved lock when a later presence message still lists it as PENDING', async ({
+      space,
+    }) => {
+      const member = (await space.members.getSelf())!;
+      const timestamp = Date.now();
+      const pendingA = { id: 'a', status: 'pending', timestamp };
+      const pendingB = { id: 'b', status: 'pending', timestamp: timestamp + 1 };
+
+      // Acquiring two locks concurrently publishes one presence message per lock,
+      // and the second message repeats the first lock as PENDING.
+      await space.locks.processPresenceMessage(
+        Realtime.PresenceMessage.fromValues({
+          action: 'update',
+          connectionId: member.connectionId,
+          extras: { locks: [{ ...pendingA }] },
+        }),
+      );
+      await space.locks.processPresenceMessage(
+        Realtime.PresenceMessage.fromValues({
+          action: 'update',
+          connectionId: member.connectionId,
+          extras: { locks: [{ ...pendingA }, { ...pendingB }] },
+        }),
+      );
+
+      expect(space.locks.getLock('a', member.connectionId)!.status).toBe('locked');
+      expect(space.locks.getLock('b', member.connectionId)!.status).toBe('locked');
+    });
+
     // use table driven tests to check whether a PENDING request for "self"
     // (i.e. the current member) transitions to LOCKED or UNLOCKED when the
     // referenced lock is already held by some other member with timestamp
diff --git a/src/Locks.ts b/src/Locks.ts
index 8d73a21f..c9edbc4b 100644
--- a/src/Locks.ts
+++ b/src/Locks.ts
@@ -374,6 +374,18 @@ export default class Locks extends EventEmitter<LocksEventMap> {
     message.extras.locks.forEach((lock: Lock) => {
       const existing = this.getLock(lock.id, member.connectionId);
 
+      // a presence message published before this request was resolved still lists
+      // it as PENDING (for example when several locks are acquired concurrently),
+      // so do not move an already resolved request back to PENDING
+      if (
+        lock.status === 'pending' &&
+        existing &&
+        existing.status !== 'pending' &&
+        existing.timestamp === lock.timestamp
+      ) {
+        return;
+      }
+
       // special-case the handling of PENDING requests, which will eventually
       // be done by the Ably system, at which point this can be removed
       if (lock.status === 'pending' && (!existing || existing.status === 'pending')) {