Whereabouts in the country was your house mintimperial?
West Yorkshire, near Huddersfield.
Offered 10% under as our highest offer. Were ignored for two months then they came back an accepted 9% under on recommendation of the agent. We were probably the only proceedable cash buyers in Windsor, as all the houses we viewed and offered on are still for sale.
We've just put our house on the market too... 😯 the market is very different to the last time we moved (2003/4) so will be very interesting to see what happens..
west, not far from j25 - pm if you want the right move link, its around your price I think
Wrong direction for us, thanks anyway.
First offer made and rejected 🙂
Even in a buyers market, I can't envisage any of the process being anywhere near fun...Yes, it's unlikely to be an enjoyable experience, I was being a bit flippant and bitter, sorry. Best of luck.
*Thanks lucky stars in a non-Jenny Talior way*
That said, I probably shouldn't tempt fate.
I probably shouldn't have tried to post on here, have a chat and do some work at the same time - that last post made less sense than normal.
I'm shocked at some of the tales of problems on here, I'm a first time buyer and the place I am buying is ex-rental, so I've not had any chain type experience. The only problem I've had is signing the mortgage offer and at the same time discovering that the apartment hadn't actually been valued yet - just a couple of days delay.
*Thanks lucky stars in a non-Jenny Talior way*
*Thanks lucky stars in a non-Jenny Talior [b]waving[/b] way*
Ebygomm - if your first offer isn't rejected then you didn't do it right. 🙂
We bought in October at -20%ish, flat above just went on market at +35% more than we paid, albeit a new roof and paint job on the building over the winter, IF it sells at that, then we have done well. It is investment, rented out flat in central Scotland.
Feel for you OMITN. We moved end of Jan. Would have been last october but for a total bastard timewaster who put an offer in on our house, then got shirty about the price and wanted money off, then disappeared off the face of the earth and refused to answer phone calls (and blanked us in the street when we bumped into him) which almost resulted in us losing our house and did result in us having to accept a lower offer than we'd have liked to progress the purchase of our new place.
Anyway turns out the prick was lying about being in a position to purchase in the first place.
Anyway we accepted around 15% under on our house sale but knocked around the same (maybe a little less) off the place we bought.
In the longterm getting the place you want is what really matters. It would have been nice to make a bit of extra money on the deal but it's not that important really.
Second offer made and rejected, back to the drawing board.
We've had ours on the market for three weeks and had one viewing two days after it went up and that's it. The wife has already seen the house she wants and we're now in the horrible position of waiting. We've put ours up at almost 10K below the other houses in the area in the hope of getting a bit of interest but nothing.
yossarian - we're not in such a bad place, but there are definitely lies being told..!
Am not happy being homeless... 😥
