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Offer accepted but....
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I have to say, I don't think that £1000 is at all unreasonable - people always expect money to be knocked off and they are priced accordingly. We looked around a house where the owner had recently been put into a home, and as sad as it is, we still would have started low with an offer. As has been said, they can only say no
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I have to say, I don't think that £1000 is at all unreasonable - people always expect money to be knocked off and they are priced accordingly. We looked around a house where the owner had recently been put into a home, and as sad as it is, we still would have started low with an offer. As has been said, they can only say no
do i take by your user name you live in kingswinford? we are in stourbridge0 -
I have to say, I don't think that £1000 is at all unreasonable - people always expect money to be knocked off and they are priced accordingly. We looked around a house where the owner had recently been put into a home, and as sad as it is, we still would have started low with an offer. As has been said, they can only say no
Or accept your low offer but keep up the viewings in case a better offer comes along.
It's not unreasonable in my view to offer less than the asking price if you think the buyer's asking more than the property is worth. But if you think it's worth the asking price I think it's fair to offer it, just because that's the fair thing to do. What goes around comes around.0 -
It's not unreasonable in my view to offer less than the asking price if you think the buyer's asking more than the property is worth. But if you think it's worth the asking price I think it's fair to offer it, just because that's the fair thing to do. What goes around comes around.
Fair, but not necessarily financially viable!
I don't know anyone who would go in and pay the asking price even if the house is worth it, but I suppose everyone is going to have different opinions house-to-house. 0 -
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My sympathies are with the elderly owner. I hope she gets the full asking price, as by your own admission your offer is less than the property is worth. Why should she donate £1000 to you?
When I bought my house, I offered £8000 below, was told by the estate agent they are holding out for £2000 less than asking price, I offered £2500 less instead saying I'm stretching it a bit and it was accepted.0 -
I thought it was a typo and you meant £10 000....or have we all fallen though a hole in the space-time continuum and gone back to the 70s? :rotfl:
I was going to ask if anyone really frets over £1k in a property deal, but apparently, they do.0 -
I thought it was a typo and you meant £10 000....or have we all fallen though a hole in the space-time continuum and gone back to the 70s? :rotfl:
I was going to ask if anyone really frets over £1k in a property deal, but apparently, they do.
yes obviously i am as bad as gaddafi for daring to offer £1000 less than the asking price on a house that is priced realistically:rotfl:0 -
"also want the property to remain as 'for sale' and take details of anyone enquiring about it (no problems there) but they had to honour the remaining viewings that were booked (two I think)
I know from the agent that these viewers are not proceedable however my concern is that if one of them does become proceedable in the next few weeks they could offer full asking and we will lose out!
this seems a little unfair as it's not a repossesion
do you think i should contact the agents and say our offer only stands if they accept no more offers off anybody??"
I think the only way you can ensure that the vendor doesn't consider other offers is to offer the full asking price.
I've recently missed a couple of "bargains" by having had my accepted offer gazumped by another buyer who offered full asking price.....and I thought this was a buyer's market
Perhaps gazumping's the wrong word, but I figured once an offer was accepted that was it....apparently not!No longer trainee
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