Buyer wants to measure up before exchange date - is this OK?

dotchas

I wouldn't be at all suspicious at the request. When buying our current house we revisited several times to measure up etc, so we could buy curtains etc. On one visit the vendors produced beer and cider and we went home slightly tipsy! We remained good friends after the purchase!
They are probably just excited and want to plan their new home.
Good luck

missile

You can either grin and bear it, or say not until after completion.

franklee

They are spending a lot of money, of course they want to see it again before they are committed. Who wouldn't? Some people send more effort on trying what dress to buy than on viewing a property :eek:

cankle

Im going to visit the property I'm buying tonight (not exchanged yet) purely to do some measuring up!!! Im so excited about it, nothing sinister about my intentions whatsoever!!! But then I am a daft FTB whose heart rules her head completely!!

KateLiana27

We did this as buyers. We were FTBs and super keen. Also we had to renovate the property so wanted to get quotes and tradesmen (provisionally) lined up as quickly as possible. There was no question of us pulling out - quite the opposite. It showed how committed we were!

In retrospect it was a bit silly of us, because anything can happen up to exchange and then we'd have got our hopes up for nothing. But if the vendor had refused, it would have definitely have put a damper on things.

Just let them come, make them a cup of tea and try to build a good relationship with them. It will make them less likely to pull out or try anything funny.

klolav

I definately think that yes it's a positive sign, my husband is a bit concerned that our buyer hasn't been around again (middle of selling, had survey, not exchanged yet) to show the children or measure up for things, although they did view 3 times before the offer was accepted!
I always go and view again to measure up etc and I think it's all good.
However, I once had someone asking just that of a property I had to sell. I was away with work, so a friend that was living with me let her in. She ended up bringing in a builder for quotes to some works and walking around every room (even though she said she only wanted to look at downstairs). My friend was really uncomfortable and didn't know what to say. She roughly opened the sliding doors at the back, and these were a tad tempermental, she obviously wasn't used to them, they played up, (never did it for me because I knew how to open them- as opossed to massively damaged or anything).
Next thing I know EA are on the phone stating ridiculous amounts of those doors cost £5000 to replace, so she is knocking you down said amount etc etc.
She had me by the short and curly's and in the end I think I knocked off £1500 from the price. Really annoyed me because I thought we had a good relationship and had been updating each other regularly etc, but I hated that she felt she had the right to walk around my home like that.
Golden Rule- Make sure you are present when they view! 99% of people are just there to measure up, but as said just have your wits about you!!
Good luck with the sale

ash28

klolav wrote: »

I definately think that yes it's a positive sign, my husband is a bit concerned that our buyer hasn't been around again (middle of selling, had survey, not exchanged yet) to show the children or measure up for things, although they did view 3 times before the offer was accepted!
I always go and view again to measure up etc and I think it's all good.
However, I once had someone asking just that of a property I had to sell. I was away with work, so a friend that was living with me let her in. She ended up bringing in a builder for quotes to some works and walking around every room (even though she said she only wanted to look at downstairs). My friend was really uncomfortable and didn't know what to say. She roughly opened the sliding doors at the back, and these were a tad tempermental, she obviously wasn't used to them, they played up, (never did it for me because I knew how to open them- as opossed to massively damaged or anything).
Next thing I know EA are on the phone stating ridiculous amounts of those doors cost £5000 to replace, so she is knocking you down said amount etc etc.
She had me by the short and curly's and in the end I think I knocked off £1500 from the price. Really annoyed me because I thought we had a good relationship and had been updating each other regularly etc, but I hated that she felt she had the right to walk around my home like that.
Golden Rule- Make sure you are present when they view! 99% of people are just there to measure up, but as said just have your wits about you!!
Good luck with the sale

The moral there is to get any little niggles sorted out before you put the house on the market - our patio doors were a bit iffy in the locking department - they opened and closed easily but you couldn't lock them with the handle - the plate where bolts slot into had slipped a little bit - it took a few minutes to get sorted.

Our buyers have been round about 5 times - with varying relative - with plans ann they measured rooms to see if their furniture would - where would they put their piano - would their dining table fit etc. The house is a massive upsize for them and all of their furniture would fit into 2 rooms! But, hey, they are thrilled with the house and so excited and I can understand them wanting to come back a number of times to see it.

We are buying 160 miles away and viewed the house and put an offer in on first viewing - I'm sure the vendor wondered what was going on when we didn't have a second viewing for about 5 weeks. When we had the second viewing he was really pleased to see us (we hadn't met him before as he hadn't done the viewing) and I suppose to an extent it put his mind at rest a little and that maybe we were actually going to buy his house.

pmlindyloo

Definitely see it as a positive sign.

When we sold our house, wife and her mother saw it (once), husband never saw it (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Unbelievable!

PS Should add wife, husband and children moved in.

phoebe1989seb

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

I agree - when we sold recently our buyers came round four times after their offer was accepted to 1) show their kids 2) show their parents and 3) measure up. Then again (time number 4) after the survey, but still before exchange, to discuss the finer points of the surveyor's findings.............good luck with your sale

To follow on from my previous post (my laptop was playing up last night so couldn't post more ), whilst my own recent selling experience regarding second/subsequent viewings after offer acceptance, but before exchange is positive, we did recently have a second viewing on the house we were going to purchase (offer had been accepted the week before) when we went back to measure certain things as the house was 200 miles away from our then home we couldn't just pop round whenever we felt like it. On arrival we did what we had to do, then thought we should take another look outside to check the rear access for some garden items..........only to discover developers building what turned out to be two new two-storey houses just behind the garden wall. We enquired what was going on only to be told a lie - that it was a single bungalow. We subsequently pulled out of the purchase...............I realise that we hadn't got far with the conveyancing and that this may well have shown up in the searches, but fortunately we had not at that point forked out for a survey so we only lost a little money on the aborted solicitor's costs

Patr100

It could well be fine and positive but you just don't know for sure. Either way, if they have doubts you'd want to know sooner rather than later when they pull out, or as unfortunately with a relative's house we were selling, they visited, offered, then visited a second time seemingly discussing space for furniture, then days later, reduced their offer.
As said, be polite but keep your guard up, it ain't sold til it's sold and not necessarily at the original price offered.