Does anyone want to join me waiting to find a house to buy?

copperjar wrote: »

Thank you psychological! How's your purchase coming along?

I bought my first (and only) house 15 years ago. Have forgotten the processes involved!

Hi Copperjar,

It's a waiting game for us at the moment, offer accepted, solicitors instructed, valuation has taken place (yesterday) and waiting on the formal offer for the mortgage (so now sitting in the "Waiting for Mortgage Offer" thread).

As lovely as you all are I'm hoping I don't have to officially come back to this thread - but trying not to get excited at this stage as I know nothing is set in stone until exchange.

Bonfire_Bride wrote: »

I'm exactly the same...always come back to this thread though to check how everyone is doing. I'm waiting for our mortgage valuation now as sellers have been away for 3 weeks.


I still have a nosey at rightmove though now and again, although havn't spotted anything as nice as the property we are (hopefully) purchasing.


Hoping for more good news from others on here soon

Good luck to you too! Would love to hear how you get on.

We went to see another property today, which initially looked promising. The price at 325K is right at the top end of our budget and needs redecorating & new carpets throughout, new kitchen and bathroom and some general maintenance including re-landscaping the garden. We have budgeted for all that and reckon we can do it for 10-15K, doing most of the work ourselves (except carpets).

Problem is, the garden which looked HUGE on the photos (the house is barely visable in the distance) in reality is unimpressive. It was around 1/3 of the length I thought it was! This would mean that with an extension and a workshop we would hardly have any garden left. I understand that you have to make compromises when house hunting, and garden size might have to be one of those, but it leaves us questioning why we want this house when you can buy an (almost) new-build 3-story house on the next estate for around the same price that wouldn't need any work. The plot is quite a bit bigger than the new builds although the house itself is smaller. You seem to pay a lot for (very little) extra land these days...

The estate agent told us that a previous buyer had a survey which found that the concrete floors had suffered sulphate attack. The buyer wanted 35K knocked off the price but the vendor instead got the work done herself for 8K. The buyer backed out anyway, hence it's back on the market. Unless they're willing to take around 290K I think this one's a non-starter. I can't see them dropping down 12% but you never know, might be worth a try (or wait for them to reduce and then negotiate).

If anyone wants a 4 bedroom detached house with lovely back garden, garage and conservatory in Skelmersdale, close to M58 and M6 please feel free to message me! No chain and ready to go..........