I reckon there has been more sales in December

mr.broderick

Conrad wrote: »

C & G have been choc a bloc throughout the crunch, entirely due to the fact they have continued to lend in a landscape where many many lenders have either shut down, or severly restricted lending.

As for the busy EA, take that with a large pinch o salt. Over the years I've come to realise there are always those EA's and brokers that possess (sp - cant be @rsed) a misplaced sense of optimism.

To be fair to c & g we had a mortgage with them once that was done through lloydstsb, they seemed a very strict lender and even requested 12 months bank statements which was answered with the fact that i bank with you!

IveSeenTheLight

domcastro wrote: »

The EA told me the other day that he'd been really busy so far in December. I didn't really take notice. Today though, when I applied for my online mortgage, about 6 hours later someone from a branch of C&G rang to say that the system was jam-packed and that they had so many online applications they were having to dish them out to the branches.
Maybe a mini-peak in December?

It would be extremely interesting data if December prooved to be a peak in sales. It would be 3 consecutive monthly increases in sales.

best not to count chickens before they are hatched though as the figures are not released and as yet to be seen

carolt

Possibly the fact that the OP is buying now may just have clouded his judgement a teensy bit?

Always good to have other lemmings to hold hands with as you jump off a cliff - makes you feel much safer.....

Shame it doesn't make jumping off cliffs any less dangerous.

GDB2222

carolt wrote: »

Possibly the fact that the OP is buying now may just have clouded his judgement a teensy bit?

Always good to have other lemmings to hold hands with as you jump off a cliff - makes you feel much safer.....

Shame it doesn't make jumping off cliffs any less dangerous.

You believe in tough love, I see.

carolt

Eh? No love either felt or lost.

It's the OP's call. No skin off my nose either way.

I just don't plan to follow him - not till the ground has stopped sloping downwards quite so vertiginously....

GDB2222

carolt wrote: »

Eh?

Well, you did call him a lemming.

carolt

Only my opinion.

Let's hope that for him it's a grand move, and that he lands safely.

Sally_Gee

Two houses have been sold in my St this month, Estate agent always looks busy.

Raffles99

For what its worth, my Mum just sold her house for £155k against an asking price of £165k.

To some extent, though, it was a fluke. The estage agent delivered ZERO viewings in three weeks. However, someone driving around our estate having looked at a different property saw the board in the garden and - by the end of the same day - had agreed a price with her which they delivered.

My gut feeling is that we got lucky. If an agent can't get one single viewing to a sensibly priced house on the 2nd best estate in Rotherham (!) in three weeks then there is real trouble still out there.

(And, for those who people who think agents are nice - despite having done nothing to broker the sale, the agent then completely ignored the fact that he was working FOR my mother and told that she was not to have any other discussions with anyone else who may show an interest in buying the property for nearer the original asking price! It was also stripped from all of their marketing sites. They had no interest in helping her obtain an even better price and were only interested in getting the sale through at any price.)

Darth_Marty

An agent cannot tell your mum that they arent doing any more viewings, stop marketing it etc, if they have done that then your mum will be well within her rights to complain to the ombudsman and either have her fee drastically reduced or even get an award back!
Obviously she would have to follow the correct complaints procedure first though.
Thats shocking behaviour but your mum will have to stand up for herself better.