We can't find anywhere to live!!!

Itismehonest

I'm sorry to read of your predicament, OP.

I think where the "Buyer's Market" theory goes wrong is that it is never a buyer's market unless there are more people so desperate to sell their homes (repossessions etc.) than there are people in a position to buy.
The Seller's who aren't in difficulty already have a home. They just sit & wait (either on, or more likely, off the market) until they feel it is a more suitable time to sell even if they would rather be living elsewhere.
This means that many of the properties for sale are not what current buyers are looking for & so demand outstrips supply - a Seller's Market.

I hope that a suitable property will soon turn up for you. Until then it's just a case of patience.
The worst thing you could do is buy somewhere just for the sake of it.

ed110220

Maybe you are being too restrictive or, dare to say it, snobby?

I think it's important to find somewhere you like rather than simply accepting as given what a "good" area is because other people say so.

I've rented privately in a "good" area and for the privilege lived on a bus route, been kept up by buses going past at all hours, students vomiting in the garden (such that it was), no parking etc.

For less than the price of a flat there I bought a 3-bedroom semi-detached house with beautiful views, backing onto fields, a nice garden, granted not in the "best" part of town but with lovely neighbours. I may not be in with the latte sipping lovey crowd here, but I know which I'd prefer ;-)

Panda78

I'm in the same position, been looking all year and can't find anything i like in the Waltham Forest area. The state some people let their houses get into is shocking, but it seems that it doesn't matter in London, there is always someone who will buy.

At least you have your parents to live with, i'm stuck wasting money on rent until i can find somewhere i like.

sharpy2010

thriftychap wrote: »

If it takes us as long as you we will be in a really good position, it's just putting up with parents again!!!

How selfish. There are plenty of people on here who don't have parents any more and would love to be in that position.

londonlydia

Where abouts in the SE? Having just had my offer accepted in Dartford, it took 4 attempts at diffrenet properties to do so...properties are turning over often in a week, and often unless you're in the first few viewing you've no chance. So it's not bleak everywhere and not this buyers market everywhere either.

thriftychap_2

zappahey wrote: »

How happy do you think your parents are to be putting up with you again?

Your apparent lack of gratitude to them is astounding, given that they are bailing you out of voluntary homelessness.

Some people really do have a sense of humour failure!
What a sad little life you must lead!

thriftychap_2

sharpy2010 wrote: »

How selfish. There are plenty of people on here who don't have parents any more and would love to be in that position.

A second sad little person with no sense of humour!

I love my parents dearly and appreciate all they have done, do and will do for me.

Please get a life and try to read things in context. I would have thought that even somebody with your obvious limitations could have observed the use of !!! to identify sarcasm/humour.

I am offended that you would make such a judgement, you no nothing about me or my family. Please waste your time elsewhere.

I will treat any reply by you to this thread with the contempt it deserves by ignoring it!

Good day.

Better_Days

Itismehonest wrote: »

I'm sorry to read of your predicament, OP.....The worst thing you could do is buy somewhere just for the sake of it.

Yes, exactly. We have been looking for over a year now. Talking to an EA yesterday he agreed that there is less coming on the market than there was this time last year (we are in Suffolk). He did add that possibly building and selling ark's maybe more productive in the current climate.

We are restricted in what we can buy due to my disabilities, but all the same we don't want to spend lots of effort and money moving to somewhere that isn't really what we want. I would rather stay put and wait as we aren't desperate to move. Wouldn't want to be here still in 5 years though.....

Crazy_Diamond

I think at some point though you may just have to bite the bullet and not buy your perfect property.

We were pushed into moving at the end of last year as my OH changed jobs and a 2 hour commute was just not tenable. We sold our house in a week and could have rented but decided to buy.

We are not living in my idea of a perfect house but I having been checking the market and there seems to be even less choice in our new area (Surrey) than there was last year and nothing for the same money that I would prefer to live in so in retrospect I am glad that we made the decision and compromises that we did.

azzabazza

Originally Posted by thriftychap
If it takes us as long as you we will be in a really good position, it's just putting up with parents again!!!

Another tongue in cheek comment taken out of context by some posters. I am sure my son would say similar if he had to move back to his parents' home! By the same token I would be reminding him of the house rules that used to apply!!!!!!!!!!