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145K House - vendor says she's refused 143K offer?

zaksmum
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Viewed a house today priced at 145K. No EA involved as it's a private sale. Soon as we got through the door the vendor said they'd had an offer of 143K and refused it so don't bother with "silly offers"!!
House has only been on the market two weeks and is nice enough but overshadowed by a motorway...you can see the flyover which is about 150 metres away from the living room window, and it's really noisy too.
If it's an amazing house in a good area maybe the asking price will be realised but I can't believe how many vendors seem to almost take offence at offers below.
House has only been on the market two weeks and is nice enough but overshadowed by a motorway...you can see the flyover which is about 150 metres away from the living room window, and it's really noisy too.
If it's an amazing house in a good area maybe the asking price will be realised but I can't believe how many vendors seem to almost take offence at offers below.
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I don't believe it!
Let them wait for a better offer.
You've not got a url have you?0 -
That's quite a surprise. Maybe this is their first time selling? Or they are desperate to get as much out of the property as possile.Deposit for FTB: £81,000 ... and counting0
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I'd have replied, "Don't bother with silly asking prices" turned around and moved on. Statement like that just paves the path for a difficult ride ahead!0
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Depending on values in the area it might just be that the house is priced very competitively and 145k is her lowest price0
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Depending on values in the area it might just be that the house is priced very competitively and 145k is her lowest price
It was built around 1999, a 2 bed semi, no garage but in good decorative order, and it's leasehold too - does that pose a problem?The price is slightly lower than you'd expect for a similar house in the area it's on the edge of, but in it's actual postcode area you can buy houses for around 60K. In fact a nearby estate built at the same time has 2 bed semis going for 79K.
The very fact that you can see the motorway flyover 150 metres away devalues the property significantly in my opinion. If I was that vendor I'd have bitten off the hand of anyone offering 143K!!0 -
The house is on the edge of a good-ish area but in the postcode of a rather bad one, mainly made up of ex council houses and housing association properties.
It was built around 1999, a 2 bed semi, no garage but in good decorative order, and it's leasehold too - does that pose a problem?The price is slightly lower than you'd expect for a similar house in the area it's on the edge of, but in it's actual postcode area you can buy houses for around 60K. In fact a nearby estate built at the same time has 2 bed semis going for 79K.
The very fact that you can see the motorway flyover 150 metres away devalues the property significantly in my opinion. If I was that vendor I'd have bitten off the hand of anyone offering 143K!!
If similar properties are going for half the price in the same postcode, why even bother viewing?0 -
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people read about the down market and talk about it BUT WHEN ITS THEIR OWN PROPERTY, differant story, perhaps she has owned this home for years and not looked at what the price of a home is advertized at, to what it fetched once sold and details posted on the land registry my own husband swore our home was worth more because of location etc it fetched about 10k less but it sold so perhaps she is not wanting to move quickly, she will learn, you will not be the only person to bid her,most homes now do not make the full asking price.,;)my bark is worse than my bite!!!!!!!!0
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Depends where you are.
If you offered 2k less than the 'offers in excess' of price, you'd get more than 'don't bother with silly offers.'0
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