Interesting House Sale Price Anecdotal....

lostinrates

Friend bought house 2002. 4 bed, £265k.

Its a nice, solid, well built house, lovely view, decent garden, big garage/worshop. but is tired decoratively...IMO an excellent sort of family home:

offer just excepted with much spitting and bile; £225k.

Thats a pretty good deal for the purchasers IMO. Its in the range of comparitve houses for bedroom numbers, but the tired thing means they can make it there own, but its perfectly fuctional if they don't care too, or want to save for making decorative improvements. Its been well maintained other than the poor choice in tired decor.

If it were for me I'd have bought it. In fact, if it had been a stable market we might have bought it to base from while we looked elsewhere! We considered doing that a while ago, thank goodness we didnt!

Topov_3

yes boring thats why you have no posts in this thread. yawn.

mewbie_2

It's not boring, but some threads take off and some don't immediately. This could turn out to be a slow burner.

265 to 225 - eh? Over six years. Missing out the peak.

PasturesNew

Thank you LIR. Very interesting anecdotal piece.

fc123

That's not boring LIR.....it's On Topic and utterly relevant to the board.;-)

I bet you 1 X V Nice bag that it won't get deleted/locked by Ms Kool.

PS...Could someone tell BubblesMoney I don't make bags ;-)

FWIW, We have had our house 'valued' for quick sale ( a tiny bit above auction price) for BR purposes and it is back to 2002.
I am the only person here who is willing my house to crawl back to 2000 price by Oct 09.

Topov_3

devorced couple sells house for knockdown price. phone the papers, its a scoop

fc123

Ooooh..... I have good company here...it's my 15 mins whilst cooking nutritious family meals for 2p.....washed down with a nice glass of wine box cheapo...but it's OK.....

PasturesNew

Topov wrote: »

devorced couple sells house for knockdown price. phone the papers, its a scoop

Shoo ... and learn to construct proper English sentences.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Shoo ... and learn to construct proper English sentences.

He dances on roofs (sic that looks wrong??) in Russia...what do you expect PN?

lostinrates

Not a divorce, sadly. A non-essential relocation. None of the 'Ds' forcing this one. Which is what makes it surprising to me. Vendor had cash to buy house number two where they have been for over a year now.

I tend to think all anecdotals with real numbers can be a bit boring when we do so well bickering about theoretical non-existant Mr and Mrs Average, in Average house, average street. Hurling abuse and not backing it up with real houses and situations.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Not a divorce, sadly. A non-essential relocation. None of the 'Ds' forcing this one. Which is what makes it surprising to me. Vendor had cash to buy house number two where they have been for over a year now.

I tend to think all anecdotals with real numbers can be a bit boring when we do so well bickering about theoretical non-existant Mr and Mrs Average, in Average house, average street. Hurling abuse and not backing it up with real houses and situations.

LIR It's the Real Life stuff that counts....because that's the stuff that actually happens.
The remainder is just academic.