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Annoying - Seller's greedy
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Greedy is fine to use. We have a decade of house price greed which nearly brought the western world to its knees.
hmmm. I'm a bit offended by this. I imagine that, had you been a homeowner during the past decade, you would have done things differently then?
You evidently don't own a property. For most of us, the equity in our home is pretty much all we've got. I don't blame anyone for trying to hang on to every penny.
When it comes to it, you'll have to take a realistic offer for that soapbox
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sonnythecat wrote: »You evidently don't own a property.
heh heh..... Hit the nail on the head there.
Brit is one of lifes underachievers who feels entitled to sit on the sidelines and argue for the value of other peoples assets to fall.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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I would walk away. Think of the satisfaction when in a year's time the seller is forced to accept an offer lower than you were offering.I'm retiring at 55. You can but dream.0
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sonnythecat wrote: »hmmm. I'm a bit offended by this. I imagine that, had you been a homeowner during the past decade, you would have done things differently then?
You evidently don't own a property. For most of us, the equity in our home is pretty much all we've got. I don't blame anyone for trying to hang on to every penny.
When it comes to it, you'll have to take a realistic offer for that soapbox
I haven't got a problem for people gaining equity through adding value to their property through extensions and basement excavations. However if you expect to keep equity over the annual inflation when you have added no value to your property then expect to be disappointed. Its equity on paper and can't be realised without selling. With a return to normal lending all this bubble equity is going to continue to disappear. Prices are falling, its time to get real.;):exclamatiScams - Shared Equity, Shared Ownership, Newbuy, Firstbuy and Help to Buy.
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15k short of 600k would be an insane offer to reject.0
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If you want something badly be prepared to let it go.
Walk away and call their bluff.
If it's not to be then the better house is round the corner.0 -
What you could do is tell the EA you are not interested now - but if it's still for sale in 6 months you will offer 550.0
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With a return to normal lending all this bubble equity is going to continue to disappea
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1. Normal lending is significantly less strict than the lending of today.... And as the only thing holding back significant price rises at the moment is the ongoing mortgage famine, your statement makes no sense.
2. I was offered a 95% mortgage in 1990, my parents were in 1967, and 100% mortgages were available at least as far back as the early 1980's. That's "normal lending".
3. There was clearly no bubble in UK prices when even with the deepest recession in a generation, even after the removal of 70% of mortgage funding, and even with the global financial crisis hitting, prices are now just 10% below peak and rising.Prices are falling, its time to get real.;)
No they aren't.
It's time for you to get real Brit.....
Enough of the delusional propaganda. :money:“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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poppysarah wrote: »What you could do is tell the EA you are not interested now - but if it's still for sale in 6 months you will offer 550.
Very bad advice.
With prices currently rising, that would just mark you out as a time-wasting fantasist.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0
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