To those selling in these difficult times

Beki

Thanks for the lovely comments :beer:

oldMcDonald wrote: »

You have a lovely house:)

You have two kitchens! Do you actually use them both? I have never, ever been in a house with two kitchens! It sounds rather grand:D

We bought this house with my parents - they live in the west wing, us in the east (that's estate agent talk for you LOL - we just say "my half" and "your half" haha). We each have a garden, and share the stables/paddock/outbuildings. Neither of us would have been able to afford a property with land if it weren't for the other, so it's worked out brilliantly for us (we're buying the next house with them also ).

It's a lovely house, and i never ever take it for granted, but now you know there's two families for two kitchens it doesn't seem quite so grand does it :rotfl:

Beki

Strapped wrote: »

ETA: Loving the white kitchen!

thanks that's my mum's half lol. our half is the olde worlde style one, and theirs is the ultra modern sleek lines half. isn't it meant to be the other way round? parents all traditional and the kids modern? :rotfl:

Toshy_3

Thanks Shirlgirl & Beki (gorgeous house btw)

I can focus on the selling now :cheesy:

Davesnave

Beki wrote: »

We bought this house with my parents - they live in the west wing, us in the east (that's estate agent talk for you LOL - we just say "my half" and "your half" haha). We each have a garden, and share the stables/paddock/outbuildings. Neither of us would have been able to afford a property with land if it weren't for the other, so it's worked out brilliantly for us (we're buying the next house with them also ).

How sensible! I proposed doing a house split with DW's parents years ago, but they wouldn't go for that. As a result, we're priced out of the local market for anything landed and must move 100+ miles away. All well & good, for now, but there will come a day when a gap like that will be more than 'inconvenient.'

Strapped

Beki wrote: »

Thanks for the lovely comments :beer:



We bought this house with my parents - they live in the west wing, us in the east (that's estate agent talk for you LOL - we just say "my half" and "your half" haha). We each have a garden, and share the stables/paddock/outbuildings. Neither of us would have been able to afford a property with land if it weren't for the other, so it's worked out brilliantly for us (we're buying the next house with them also ).

It's a lovely house, and i never ever take it for granted, but now you know there's two families for two kitchens it doesn't seem quite so grand does it :rotfl:

I guessed that that might be the case and that your ideal buyers would have at least one elderly dependent I would love to buy something similar with my mother - if you were down here instead of Kent I'd definitely consider your property as 3.5 acres is just the right size for two (as yet hypothetical) ponies! (Strangely, they won't fit in our courtyard lol).

Strapped

OK, I admit I am nosey and had a look on Rightmove at properties within 3 miles of Minster. I think the problem is you are obviously quite a "niche" property. There are quite a few other 5 bed properties, on around the £350-400k mark - some with big gardens too eg 1/2 acre - some arranged as one property, some as two like yours is. So the difference is the setting (personally I'd love no near neighbours) and the land ie big enough for horses or animals or small home business as opposed to just a large domestic garden. You are the only one with the land. I still think someone would get a bargain at £425k.

Davesnave

Strapped wrote: »

There are quite a few other 5 bed properties, on around the £350-400k mark - some with big gardens too eg 1/2 acre - some arranged as one property, some as two like yours is. So the difference is the setting (personally I'd love no near neighbours) and the land ie big enough for horses or animals or small home business as opposed to just a large domestic garden. You are the only one with the land. I still think someone would get a bargain at £425k.

Once you go above about an acre, you enter a different league. As you've noted, Jemima's pony really wouldn't be happy on 0.5 acres, and if you're going to have one, you may as well earn something for PT livery for another. Oh, and you can have some jumps too....

Not for me mind, I'd put in a large garden + vegetable plot & set up a little specialist nursery. Anything over would become a little indulgence for me, like a mini-arboretum.

Whoops!...daydreaming here. What I meant to say was, it all depends upon the deal you can do on the next property and the 'need' for that too.

Strapped

Davesnave wrote: »

Once you go above about an acre, you enter a different league. As you've noted, Jemima's pony really wouldn't be happy on 0.5 acres, and if you're going to have one, you may as well earn something for PT livery for another. Oh, and you can have some jumps too....

Not for me mind, I'd put in a large garden + vegetable plot & set up a little specialist nursery. Anything over would become a little indulgence for me, like a mini-arboretum.

Whoops!...daydreaming here. What I meant to say was, it all depends upon the deal you can do on the next property and the 'need' for that too.

You need at least 2 acres - 1 + 1 "resting".

Unfortunately I'd need to do a LOT of eBaying to make that happen...well, must get back to it...

1echidna

The replies to my postings somewhat concerned me but we have briefly explored the possibility of getting more following our buyer's surveyor giving a low valuation (initially £280k altered to £290k on an initial offer of £295k and asking price of £300k) So the buyer is still on board we have agreed the price at £290k and the house will be taken off the market. I think we have done well, wife thinks OK. My feeling is that, touch wood as contracts are not yet exchanged, we have been lucky with a quick sale and that although there may be a spring bounce which we have benefited from, the market trend is essentially downwards for some time to come. I am sorry for those who are finding things very difficult selling but I am just reporting our experience thus far.

devilot

1echidna wrote: »

The replies to my postings somewhat concerned me but we have briefly explored the possibility of getting more following our buyer's surveyor giving a low valuation (initially £280k altered to £290k on an initial offer of £295k and asking price of £300k) So the buyer is still on board we have agreed the price at £290k and the house will be taken off the market. I think we have done well, wife thinks OK. My feeling is that, touch wood as contracts are not yet exchanged, we have been lucky with a quick sale and that although there may be a spring bounce which we have benefited from, the market trend is essentially downwards for some time to come. I am sorry for those who are finding things very difficult selling but I am just reporting our experience thus far.

Well, good luck, don't count your chickens before they've hatched though. There's a long time between now and exchange, we're practically ready to exchange contracts and I'm still on tenterhooks!:eek: