Anyone from Northwest area selling?

trello

Have you found that the market has slowed right down and nobody is buying?

Ticklemouse

Where I am (Ribble Valley), it's going great guns - certainly in the price bracket I'm looking at. Most of the ones I'd like to view have gone under offer when I ring the agents, although a couple have come back on. I just wish someone would hurry up and buy mine though (mind you, have only been on the market 2 weeks, but I'm impatient).

I'm just waiting for the usual Easter influx of new houses/buyers

Where abouts are you?

wendykearney

Like Ticklemouse i'm trying to buy in Ribble Valley, anything with a sensible price tag is going before it hits the shelves. Some of the sillier priced houses aren't far behind. We sold our old house in Pendle within 3 days of it going on the market, we had 3 people fighting over it.. We're now renting till we find something.
What type of house is your Ticklemouse and whereabouts in Ribble valley? PM me with the details if its near Clitheroe, you never know it could be what we are looking for!lol

wendy

swampduck

Definitely! Our house has been on the market for nearly 4 weeks and not had a single viewing!! Mind you loads are going up sale!! Must be trying to beat the June hips deadline!!

Swampy

Ticklemouse

Pah - Just went to view a house in Whalley today. Been on the market for 8 weeks. Went round to the agents and told them I loved it. Came home, mulled it over for ... oooh, 30 minutes and rang agents and put an asking price offer in. Had gone under offer 5 minutes before!! Oh well

backtomum

I'm not selling - just watching. There are a lot of houses that have been on the market since September.

movingpot

I am a biginner in this forum.
We have two terrace houses together (We knocked it through in 1998)
We checked with council and they told us we didn't need any planning
parmission.
Last year, we decided to sell the house separately. we had houses on market for a year.
Then person from Council turned up and said we couldn't sell as two houses.
Because they said we are creating a new house, we have to drop the price of one of the house for 25% for affordable houses scheme.
We were gutted!!!!
We just had separate buyers for both houses.
We couldn't afford to drop 25% and took out our house from the market
and lost the sell.
Now we are selling a house as a one house. Or we might stay. We live in Ribble Valley and house is situated nice place.
but we still feel it was really unfair.

barnaby-bear

movingpot wrote: »

I am a biginner in this forum.
We have two terrace houses together (We knocked it through in 1998)
We checked with council and they told us we didn't need any planning
parmission.
Last year, we decided to sell the house separately. we had houses on market for a year.
Then person from Council turned up and said we couldn't sell as two houses.
Because they said we are creating a new house, we have to drop the price of one of the house for 25% for affordable houses scheme.
We were gutted!!!!
We just had separate buyers for both houses.
We couldn't afford to drop 25% and took out our house from the market
and lost the sell.
Now we are selling a house as a one house. Or we might stay. We live in Ribble Valley and house is situated nice place.
but we still feel it was really unfair.

Have you been paying council tax for two properties to fund the extra school and hospital places, bin collections for two households etc that splitting the property would create demand for? If so you probably have some grounds to appeal. Two small households creates more demand for services and infrastructure than one larger one in general and the larger one won't pay anywhere near twice the smaller ones CT.

sciencegeek

I realise that the following comment is just a 'snapshot' of a small local area but in liverpool i have seen a couple of houses reduce in asking price by 20-40k over the past few months (one has now sold at ~200k and the other is still unsold at ~220k)
Nigh on impossible to find a decent house in FTB price range though, at least where i want to live :rolleyes:

movingpot

barnaby-bear wrote: »

Have you been paying council tax for two properties to fund the extra school and hospital places, bin collections for two households etc that splitting the property would create demand for? If so you probably have some grounds to appeal. Two small households creates more demand for services and infrastructure than one larger one in general and the larger one won't pay anywhere near twice the smaller ones CT.

Thank you very much for your advice.
When we put two doorways, council made us to make to one council tax and to take out one of the kitchen.
It was great to know other people's view and helped me a lot to deal with this. Thank you!

shockingmoment

My sister in law just can't sell her three bed, terraced. Ideal 1st time buyers home, very good order, not over priced.

Plus we've spent time with her viewing her next potential purchases. There's so many on the market, and have been there for so long. And looking over the EAs shoulder - very few viewings.