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First Time Buyer Scheme (FTBI) - Stuck - Unable to sell or rent!

myredhotcar · 2011-01-04 13:29:51

I purchased a property on the FTBI - First Time Buyer Scheme - around 3 years ago. I lived there happily for 2 years and at the start of 2010 got a job offer in London. After moving I assumed it would be easy to sell the flat but after a year there have been 0 offers. It seems I am stuck with the flat unable to sell. This…

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Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite

17 January 2011 at 3:25PM

JJM07 wrote: »

Nope... everyone paid close to £180,000 in 2007.

I can't enter link but use zoopla.co.uk and then 'sold prices' and postcode LS9 8LB.

If you look back to 2007 you will see the same house numbers now been sold at £90k to £95k.

I don't understand. I seem to have got the figures slightly incorrect, but nonetheless, If everyone paid the same, including you (metaphorically), then it wasn't overvalued.

The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
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