To those selling in these difficult times

pawpurrs

Good Luck with having your offer accepted, have you got anything else you are interested in if they refuse?

scw1

No not really tbh. Am noticing more houses coming on the market over past few weeks though so hoping something will come up. If not we will be staying in sister in laws house. We do have the option of buying a new build which is exactly the same as the one we have put an offer in but obviously newer but it wont be ready until Nov/Dec.

Hows things going with you? Have you heard about the survey?

pawpurrs

No and been told it could be 6-8 weeks! Not happy!

scw1

Why is it taking so long - taking it that not the norm? Sorry bit clueless

moneysavingfamilycomp

that seems like a very long time to me pawpurrs you must be very frustrated. nothing happening here no viewings booked from either EA and not heard back from viewing last week although i didnt really expect to. oh well we will keep plodding on.

EagerLearner

Hi Pawpurrs - depends how far really due to travel to work... PM me a link to what ya got? Initially trying to stay local-ish but we have considered further a field, just haven't considered where yet!

savagelyric

kymie wrote: »

Hoping to buy out HIP pack next month then can change agents (with hubby n son travelling up and down its been an expensive time, was hoping to buy out the HIP before now!). We have dropped from £152,000 originally (had 5 agents who all valued it around £155,000 but we were trying to be competitive!) to £139,950 today. Not bad for a 4 bed semi and big garden Shame all we can get for that in Sussex is a postage stamp lol

Do you mind me asking where you are Kymie? IIRC you might be near me (Staffordshire) and as I'm thinking of going on the market soon, I would like to avoid your EA!

Davesnave

I am just putting a quiet message on here tonight to say that our offer on a smallholding has been accepted, so I'll be back with you folk as a home owner by July.

I'm happy because, with Stamp Duty, the price we're paying will be roughly the same as the amount we sold for in January. However, by the time we complete, the whole sale /rent / purchase process will have taken 22 months.

Was it worth the wait? I think so.

Would we do it again? Yes, but not for a while; say a decade!

pawpurrs

Congratulations Dave,hope it all goes through smoothly for you.
EL I am a long way from brighton over an hour so no good, I guess.
No its not normal (time frame, its never simle eh, we only accepted such a low offer as they said they could move quickly, the agreement was that it would stay on the market, thats if the agent carrys on with the viewings, which they dont appear to be)

Nikki

Great news and even without any detail it sounds fabulous - a smallholding can't be anything but, I'd have loved one but it's way beyond my budget for the forseeable. Congrats and keep us posted on how things go.