Waiting for a buyer... Anyone want to join me?

Funny market near me at the moment. It seems to me like there's dozens of buyers queuing up to buy those houses that are priced lower than others in the market but everything else priced at the recent "norm" is stagnant. I'm totally gutted as we've been looking for a year and everything was overpriced or not quite right. We saw a really well priced property at the weekend and offered asking price but they've accepted a cash offer. Beginning to wonder if we'll ever find a house now! :-(


Good luck guys with your sales, and I know I'm a little biased as I'm a buyer, but prices need to come down and most buyers are waiting for that to happen... so if you're serious about selling and can afford to take the hit now, then in my opinion right now would be a good time to discount your property and get it sold, rather than waiting for everyone else to do it.

Chickenmama, couldn't agree more, I wouldnt dream of messing someone about like it, if you've made an offer stick to it, unless there are good grounds (such as a bad survey) to renegotiate. It's the way she avoided calls all week that really upset me, at least have the decency to let people know what is going on, don't leave them just dangling! :mad: Any way her loss! Of course, if we were in Scotland she would have be bound to her offer!!

Good luck with the viewing, hope they show up and fall in love with your place!

Still waiting for ours to actually go live....it seems to be taking forever (although in the grand scheme of things it really isn't).

EA instructed on 01/10, photos taken 05/10, EPC couldn't be done until 08/10 (but EA advised the literature was done awaiting this data), EA Sales Manager and a second salesman visited 10/10 and bought literature proof with them. Modified and returned that evening, second proof received 11/10, had to be returned again......still waiting for the third (and hopefully final) copy today. They are planning to go live with that then are returning on Friday to re-take some photos and update as they're really not the best!

I know it's not a long time to wait, but seems to be taking longer than when we sold the first house. We just want to see if there's any interest so we know if the new development is an option for us before they all sell!

That's so rude chicken mama. Hoping for a buyer soon for you!

Ours went live yesterday and about 6 viewings booked for the weekend. I really hope it doesn't sit long on the market. Luckily for us, we don't have to clear, tidy etc as it's tenanted and the tenants are packing up to leave

chickenmama wrote: »

Kirtsy - that seems really silly if they are going to follow their 3 week rule when you might get an offer - have you tried talking to them about it?

I couldn't get through to them to discuss which was frustrating beyond belief! They finally called back and agreed to wait until Mondau so fingers crossed for an offer prior to that

smallholdingsister wrote: »

Kirstypoos you put someone else in charge of your selling price?

Yes, unfortunately the property we wanted was a new build - we managed to wangle a rather large discount (5%) but had to be able to reserve then - we paid reservation fee but Barratt won't aceept unless property is under offer or we used their movemaker scheme (the pay agents fees, but must sell within 6 weeks of being on market - 3 weeks at highest agents valuations and 3 weeks at lowest agents valuation)

It's not the end of the World if price is reduced, concern is that the bottom estimate is only 2K more than we need to be able to proceed with new purchase and does anyone really offer asking price these days?!

Keeping everything crossed for a proceedable offer on Saturday!