What to offer?!

Ivrytwr3

Houses in my area are selling, but selling very slowly. We are looking at 2 x houses and both have been on the market for approx 2 years (1 x house had a buyer but the survey revealed some work needed doing and the sale fell through; property now back on market).

One is for sale at £217k and the other £164k.

We have no idea what to offer.................!!

chickmug

This long post of mine may help: -

WHAT IS MY HOME WORTH, WHAT TO OFFER, DOWNVALUATIONS - TIPS

There are so many posts asking all of the above so I have attempted to encapsulate all the usual advice backing one place. But when asking these questions it is better to include a Rightmove link as you will get more responses. The purpose of this post is to give guidance on establishing the value of a home and in a similar way to how agents would do it. However agents will always have that last bit of the jigsaw, from local knowledge and experience, on which no one can write help notes.

You need to do some very through homework the same as a good agent should do. You need to ignore those who say offer 20% or even more lower without justification. When thinking of offering...............

THE REST OF THE POST CAN BE READ HERE: -

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1907059