Fastest offer?

Clive_Woody

djm1972 wrote:

Hi everyone;

Just curious - I went on the market on Monday this week and the Estate Agent is lining them up (3 viewings already, more booked this week) - what's the quickest you've seen a viewer submit an offer?

Our house also went on the market on Monday, first viewer came back with a full asking price offer today. It's a couple moving to the UK from NZ, they have cash deposit and mortgage offer in place.

Nicki

OK - we did better our record. We viewed at 2.00 (the first day the property went on the market). Next lot of viewers were due at 2.45. We made an offer at 3pm which was accepted and the viewers were asked to leave as the property was under offer. The vendors had lived there for years and wanted to sell to a nice family and apparently our little boy who viewed with us did the trick for us! Hope they don't decide to change their minds now though because they think we were too quick off the mark.

Doozergirl

Good News djm1972!

You must use the fact that you have plenty of viewings lined up as a bargaining tool. There's no way I'd accept lower than asking at this stage: you've had a (pretty standard) offer of £10k under. Make them sweat by at least, saying you'll get back to them on Monday next week with an answer on their next offer.

If they want it, they'll come up to asking price to get it off the market

The number of viewings you've had and still have coming is a good indication that people think it's probably worth the money.

Hold out!

sarah_elton

I viewed my flat 3 days after it went on the market, made an offer a day later, and the price was haggled and ultimately agreed 2 days after that. If you happen to catch someone who wants it, and it's on at the right price, it can be very fast. But it's pot luck.

Kaz2904

We went on the market on the Friday and had our first viewing at 5.30 that day. The EA then left the couple and they closed for the night. 8.00 Saturday morning EA phoned with an offer. By 8.15 EA had an asking price offer which we took!

talksalot81

It is common place around here that a property will have an offer within a matter of minutes of going on the market. People are so desperate to buy and bidding often ends so far above asking that people will happily put in a blind bid of asking.

honeypop

We viewed a house the morning it went on the market, offered full asking price while still there at the viewing and it was accepted, the house had only been on the market a few hours!

Lucky for us it was in the area we were looking for, ticked about 99% of the boxes on our list of things we wanted in a house (just the direction the garden faced was slightly west facing, everything else was perfect for us) and was just below our budget.

uk_steve

we was quite lucky in 2005

i bought in a village called Elvington nr Dover in june 2001 for 55k and sold 119.999.99p in 2005

we put it on with ward and partners on wednesday to start viewing on the Monday we had 3 viewers on the 1st day and get an offer on the 1st day of 119.999.99p we had it on for 120k (i was going to hold out on the 1p he!he!:rotfl: there was no details or photos in the estate agents at the time of the sale.. oh yeah no for sale board either outside the house as it sold too quickly

i think the raise of the stamp duty helped in our case as it was announced a week before we put it on the market

and completed in a few mths

Wannabesaver_4

Put out house on market on a monday and had 2 offers by Sat -eventually sold the following thursday for asking price!

wendykearney

Ours went on market wdsnesday with first viewing 6.30pm with EA. They made their offer to ea outside house! we had 3 viewings in 3 days, with 3 offers. The lowest one was 1500 under asking price and 2 of asking price. both upped and the highest one won. All within 4days!

The EA was brilliant. Couldn't have been happier with their service.

wendy