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Seller just won't budge

darrensen · 2011-06-09 08:41:01

Hi guys, Just wanted to share our experience with you. We've been to look at lots of 3 bed properties. New build and old. The one that keeps jumping out at us is one that we've made 2 offers on. It went on the market at the very beginning of April 2011. We saw the property after just a couple of days and made a prompt…

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ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite

12 June 2011 at 2:14PM

firsttimebuyer2011 wrote: »

That's very true.

I can only speak for myself, but I do have a habit of looking at properties slightly out of my price range, thinking that - if I can get it for X, then I'll have got a "bargain".

Meanwhile I tend to ignore those that *are* within my price range, cos I feel I can do better, or try to get myself a property at a "sale" price.

Maybe I'm strange, but I think a lot of people are the same - hence the psychology of high street sales.

I’m not sure that is good way to buy a house. Some houses are priced to sell and some are not. The thing that matters is the price you pay not the discount you get off the asking price.

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