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wsharp · 2009-03-28 23:52:53

Me and my husband are almost decided to go ahead with Persimmon's development (someone may read my other thread about they gave us contradictive info, but they apologized and offered further discount). Any way, before we go ahead I hope someone can answer the following questions for us... Can we ask our solicitor to put a…

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dodgy Posts: 162 Forumite

2 April 2009 at 5:07PM

If it helps I've just agreed to buy a persimmon house, it was on for £424 from Jan - mid-March, then they dropped it to £359 and I haggled hard to reach £336 which was the absolute lowest I could get them to go. In our favour was that we don't have a house to sell, in their favour was that this was the last property of this type on the development and there was a lot of interest - indeed the day we were signing the reservation a couple came in to enquire about the very property we were buying.

£424 -> £336 = 20%
£359 -> £336 = 6.4%

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