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Does anybody else think this is madness?
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What price you originally had the house up for is irrelevant as it didn't sell at that price! The house is now at £200K and you have been offered 5% less at £190K which seems pretty reasonable to me in this market? Agree the window concept is a bit strange.
Yes but when we had the house orginally at £220,000, the first viewer offered the full asking price. But that fell through due to certain reasons. Also this person is asking us to move out within a month.0 -
Looking at rightmove, you can get a 5 bed detached in Sudbury for £200,000."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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Looking at rightmove, you can get a 5 bed detached in Sudbury for £200,000.
If you actally looked at that house, it's not actally a 5 bedroom house. It's house with planning permission to turn it into a 5 bed house, it also need referbishing, and probably has nowhere near as many period features as our house has.
This is our house0 -
Ah, yes. There's not much for sale in your town at the moment.
I see from the garden pictures they were taken in the summer. I suppose you have to weigh up how long you you have been on the market and h badly you want to sell.
I'd want the original windo put back too. Why did you change it for the modern one? If it matches the others, it's nice."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
I'd want the original windo put back too. Why did you change it for the modern one? If it matches the others, it's nice.
We didn't, we brought it like that many years ago, and only just recently when our next door naughbour had all his windows double glazed did he give us his old window0 -
I'd take the £190k and tell them they can pay for the window fitting themselves."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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hmmm no upstairs bathroom - yes I'd have to say you're crazy not to take the offer after being on the market so long.0
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Which of No.1, No.25, or No.48 is most like your house?
http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=clarence+road+sudbury+suffolk&n=25
If the "Det" detail is correct (which it often isn't), ignore No.1 as its detached, then No.25 and No.48 show the downward progression of prices through 2008, from £181,500 in Feb down to £168,000 in June...(subject to local knowledge on differences, of course)
There is a bit of a recovery since, but not to the higher figure. If you can get £190k, on paper, from a distance, it sounds pretty good.
[IMG]http://www1.landregistry.gov.uk/houseprices/housepriceindex/report/default.asp?g=1>=1&a=Suffolk&s=01 January 2007&e=01 December 2009&t=1[/IMG]Act in haste, repent at leisure.
dunstonh wrote:Its a serious financial transaction and one of the biggest things you will ever buy. So, stop treating it like buying an ipod.0 -
190 is a good price ! i would say yes0
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