2012: Is your house still on the market...

robatwork

business_man wrote: »

Have you tried a cash buy company? They can get it done asap, in time for your schooling reasons.:A

You're persistent - will give you that.

To OP: If you answer some of the queries already asked on this thread you will hopefully get the help to ensure you don't need to go to wewillbuyanyofyourhouses.com or their ilk.

To business_man - if you fancy being straight rather than touting for business, let us all know what your average buy price is in terms of % less than a standard bank surveyor valuation.

DRP

On since May 2012 (10 weeks yesterday). We've had about 30 viewings (a handful of those were second viewings), although they have tailed off the last couple of weeks (we had 27 viewings in the first 7 weeks, and only a few since).

3 offers which have evaporated:
1st never came back with a second offer
2nd we were on the verge of accepting and then the FTBs parents' added more to their gifted 50k deposit :eek:, enabling them to target bigger houses
3rd made a low offer on thursday.

IF this 3rd buyer falls through, i think we will probably change EA... although i;m not sure if this is likely to change things

mrs_motivated

googler wrote: »

I don't get this at all; the Stamp Duty thresholds are

Over £125,000 to £250,000 1%
Over £250,000 to £500,000 3%

How do these affect a price range from £299,950 to £324,995 ???

Oops . Sorry, that shows how much I know could have sworn it jumped to 3per cent over £300k. Even more worrying that's what the EA told me

googler

mrs_motivated wrote: »

.... could have sworn it jumped to 3per cent over £300k. Even more worrying that's what the EA told me

Now that is worrying (the EA bit)....

googler

business_man wrote: »

See that is the problem here, every deal has its own merits and there is no fixed percentage.

See, the real problem is you ducking the question. The previous poster didn't ask you what your fixed percentage was, nor individual percentages, they asked what your AVERAGE purchase price related to surveyor's valuation was, shown as percentage of the valuation.

You shouldn't have any difficulty working this out, and telling us the number of purchases it was derived from, should you?

Johnhowell

Business_man kindly do not Private Message me about your property buying company.

googler

googler wrote: »

You shouldn't have any difficulty working this out, and telling us the number of purchases it was derived from, should you?

Business_Man - How many purchases, roughly, have you made? Do you measure it in single figures, tens, hundreds, thousands?

djh22

Mine's been on the market since mid Feb. reduced the price twice and had an offer lower than we wanted but we accepted it.We're still in limbo as my buyers buyer had their mortgage offer withdrawn just 2 days before our chain was due to exchange and complete.

Winkle1908

Property was listed for sale 22nd Feb, had 10 viewings, one with interest but had to sell theirs so was a no go. Had an offer accepted 23rd April and moved out 15th June.

We had the opportunity of marketing as possible no chain and changed this to guaranteed no chain and think this helped. We reduced once after 4 weeks, although we were getting viewings we wanted to undercut all of the competition, reducing by £5000 did this and our buyer had been watching our property but was over their budget until we reduced.

If you want to sell quickly make sure there is nothing in the same postcode that is better than yours for the price, but ideally undercut the best one so yours stands out!

thriftychap_2

We were very fortunate. We sold to 1st person that viewed for 3% under the asking price.

Shame we can't find anywhere to live!! Selling to a FTB so will move back into parents to ensure no chain.