To those selling in these difficult times Part Deux. AKA sellers support network!

ocalllo

Chyna-s wrote: »

Feel guilty to report that we have had an offer already of 5% below the asking price so I have snapped their hand off.

Flat went on for sale on Monday, 1st viewing on Tuesday, a 2nd viewing on Wednesday and the offer made Thursday! :eek: Can't believe it - I was all prepared for it to take a few months and battle over the price. However, until it is sold, I will not relax.

good news for a change on here - i hope all works out :T

tyllwyd

Chyna-s wrote: »

Feel guilty to report that we have had an offer already of 5% below the asking price so I have snapped their hand off.

Flat went on for sale on Monday, 1st viewing on Tuesday, a 2nd viewing on Wednesday and the offer made Thursday! :eek: Can't believe it - I was all prepared for it to take a few months and battle over the price. However, until it is sold, I will not relax.

Congratulations!!! Fingers crossed it all goes smoothly for you!

However - from the point of view of balance - it seems obvious that it was underpriced We all need to raise our asking prices folks!!

jw2003

I feel so fed up, we've only been on the market about 3 or 4 weeks and have had 3 viewings and all of them have out in an offer, one we agreed but they pulled out but the others were just too low

We're on the market for £135k but that's a good price for this area and I am prepared to negotiate but not to £120k or £125k

Have just been on Rightmove to re-affirm our asking price. There are 11 similar properties on the market and ours is joint 3rd CHEAPEST but is equally as good a condition than the top 3 properties (and bigger than 2 of them), and in better condition than every other one. Under £130k are flats and projects (except 1 that's in a not so nice street)

I know there's a lot of people on here that say "it's only worth what someone will pay" and "if it doesn't sell it's too expensive" but how can that really be the case here?

jw2003

Chyna-s wrote: »

Feel guilty to report that we have had an offer already of 5% below the asking price so I have snapped their hand off.

Great news, best of luck with your onward sale

sonastin

jw2003 wrote: »

I feel so fed up, we've only been on the market about 3 or 4 weeks and have had 3 viewings and all of them have out in an offer, one we agreed but they pulled out but the others were just too low

We're on the market for £135k but that's a good price for this area and I am prepared to negotiate but not to £120k or £125k

Have just been on Rightmove to re-affirm our asking price. There are 11 similar properties on the market and ours is joint 3rd CHEAPEST but is equally as good a condition than the top 3 properties (and bigger than 2 of them), and in better condition than every other one. Under £130k are flats and projects (except 1 that's in a not so nice street)

I know there's a lot of people on here that say "it's only worth what someone will pay" and "if it doesn't sell it's too expensive" but how can that really be the case here?

I think part of the problem is that you are so close to the stamp duty threshold. Not all buyers in that range are FTB so some of them have to find the extra 1% on top of the sale price above £125k. Perhaps you could consider offering to pay the stamp duty for anyone who isn't a FTB - that might attract a few more offers closer to a price you can accept?

jw2003

sonastin wrote: »

I think part of the problem is that you are so close to the stamp duty threshold. Not all buyers in that range are FTB so some of them have to find the extra 1% on top of the sale price above £125k. Perhaps you could consider offering to pay the stamp duty for anyone who isn't a FTB - that might attract a few more offers closer to a price you can accept?

Thanks for the tip, I'll discuss it with my oh

smiley79

Well done chyna s that is great news, hope it all goes well

MaidMarianofNottingham

NEH wrote: »

Welcome to Snowlady, our first viewing was a few weeks as well so don't panic just yet...

Thanks Harz99 for updating it all, you're a star....:D

Sorry to hear Maidmarian that you've taken it off the market will you try in the near future or ride things out?

No news again from our Solicitor, they haven't even got the office junior to call us, i think they pull names out of the hat as to who has to call me each week or other week....:rotfl:

I'm very relieved to have made the decision to stop marketing our house. It's been 25 months on the market and we have dropped price by 17%.
I won't put it back on the market in the near future, maybe in 2011.
It has been a stressful time as I'm sure everyone on this thread understands very well.
I'm going to start enjoying living in the house again and may decorate a room or three and put the family photos back on show, make the place feel like a home again instead of a commodity.

sonastin

bullau wrote: »

deleted, didnt see the date of the post quoted, lol

Aye - this thread has been running for a fair while now!

Chyna-s

Thanks for all your good wishes. It works out extremely well as we are already in the process of buying so should not be paying 2 mortgages for too long.

Wishing you all a productive weekend.