Paid 10k more than neighbour for same house - HELP

vickyj

I am not getting why you think you have lost. You have a home that you purchased at a price that you were happy with. You part ex'd your house with no estate agents fees or market ready costs. You have nothing less that what you had before you found out about your neighbours cost.
Enjoy your home.

ajsdoc

Same thing happens with holidays, new cars etc etc.

Be happy with the house you bought and the price you paid. You were happy until you heard what the other guy paid.

We've just sold our house and to be honest there is no "fixed price" - the price of ours could easily have been variable as to the length of chain, finance position, how likely it seemed they wouldn't have mortgage difficulties and, to be brutally honest, whether the purchasers seemed like decent people!

These types of purchases (Cars, Houses, Holidays) are not the same as groceries on the supermarket shelf.

Clairiballs

Wow, here's me using a a forum like this to get help and advice from people who i thought would be able to, instead the majority of replies have been insults and pi$$ taking.

The other houses had part exs aganinst them, and the plots are pretty much all the same. I guess I'll seek advice elsewhere

bendix

Clairiballs wrote: »

Wow, here's me using a a forum like this to get help and advice from people who i thought would be able to, instead the majority of replies have been insults and pi$$ taking.

The other houses had part exs aganinst them, and the plots are pretty much all the same. I guess I'll seek advice elsewhere

Nobody has insulted you, so far as I can see.

They are just pointing out that you paid the price you thought was good, and now you're upset because you feel you have been duped or missold it.

You haven't. You made a deal and that's the end of it.

What on earth you think you can 'get back' from the vendor I have no idea. Nothing illegal has been done. They offered to sell you the house for xxxxxx. You agreed and handed over the money. They handed over the keys to the house.

Where is the problem?

DannyboyMidlands

I think the point is that people aren't sure what advice you are seeking. There is nothing you can do.

You paid what you thought the place was worth, your neighbour did the same and was able to negotiate a better deal. End of story.

Yorkie1

Although some of the replies were not constructive, the majority were in fact fair but you simply may not have liked them. That is always a risk on an open forum.

You made the point in your first post that you paid more for your house than your neighbours because of the difference in the nature of the houses you each part-exchanged. Therefore the fact that the plots / houses you now own are identical, is irrelevant. The other part of the equation differed and therefore the end result differed. There is no reason for the developer to go into the nature of other people's transactions to justify the amount offered to you; in fact, they aren't allowed to owing to data protection reasons.

Put this behind you and good luck in settling into your new home.

chalkie99

Clairiballs wrote: »

I guess I'll seek advice elsewhere

Yes, keep trying until you find an answer you like and then cling on to that.

Even if a hundred people tell you that you have no recourse just hang on to that one misguided fool who will give you false hope. The end result will be the same, except to make you more bitter about your lack of negotiating skills.

Sorry, a lesson in life, no more than that.

hazyjo

People have helped you, so the majority will probably find your reply a bit of a kick in the teeth.

When you say 'seek advice elsewhere', what on earth are you wanting to hear? Everyone's already told you there's nothing you can do about it. There is no way you can sue, claim, object, whatever. Feel free to ask in a dozen forums, I'm sure someone will eventually say 'sue them'. They will be wrong, but hey ho if that's the only reply you want to hear, go for it.

I had asked about stamp duty, but no reply to that.

Jx

poppasmurf_bewdley

When I bought one home, the bloke across the road from me got his house £5k cheaper than I did because the rear of his house looked out over a cemetery. I didn't moan about that as I would willingly pay £5k NOT to overlook a cemetery.

Davesnave

When we sold our last house, it was at around £20k less than the one up the road, which others found broadly comparable. That's why it sold before ours.

Rather than grumble about the state of the market, and our bad luck, choosing to sell at such a naff time, we took comfort from the deal we did on the next property we bought. Meanwhile, the market continued to do its thing, so the last house to sell in the road was well below our price.

In house buying/selling, you'll probably win some and lose some. It's a long game, played out over donkeys' years. Few people get it right every time, or we'd all be property millionaires.

The important thing is to learn what you can from experiences, not act stubbornly, like a donkey would, when things don't go your way.