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richardw

SellMyFlat wrote: »

It will extended during the purchase going through.

Has the freeholder explicitly agreed to this and are the details with your solicitor?

SellMyFlat_2

We are the free holder, and it will be extended as part of the puchase so at its including the purchase price.

The above flat is not as in a "prime" location as ours. And don't purpose built flats come with a premium?

richardw

SellMyFlat wrote: »

We are the free holder, and it will be extended as part of the puchase so at its including the purchase price...

Has the ground floor freeholder agreed to this?

somethingcorporate

SellMyFlat wrote: »

We are the free holder, and it will be extended as part of the puchase so at its including the purchase price.

The above flat is not as in a "prime" location as ours. And don't purpose built flats come with a premium?

I'd not suggest that old purpose built flats come with a premium - new builds will.

I'd suggest non-purpose built flats shoe-horned without much thought into old properties will come with a lack of a premium (whatever the word is to mean it'll be worth considerably less). Ones done well will still attract good money, although judging from yours it will put quite a lot of buyers off.

SellMyFlat_2

richardw wrote: »

Has the ground floor freeholder agreed to this?

Yes he has

richardw

Great, that's good.

SellMyFlat_2

somethingcorporate wrote: »

I'd not suggest that old purpose built flats come with a premium - new builds will.

I'd suggest non-purpose built flats shoe-horned without much thought into old properties will come with a lack of a premium (whatever the word is to mean it'll be worth considerably less). Ones done well will still attract good money, although judging from yours it will put quite a lot of buyers off.

Oh I know ours does not have any sort of "premium". It has good and bad points.
We compromised on the bad points to get the good points that we wanted back when the market was buoyant. Given I was 21 years old when I bought it I had no idea about market crashes and the like so its been a lesson

Called another EA to come round this week to see about changing, then maybe give it till september to see about another price drop. We are over paying our mortgage by over 50% at mo so the mortgage balance will be a bit lower then.

The other thing is, we have been doing the viewings ourself, should we get the EA do them? or does it not matter?

somethingcorporate

We did all our own viewings, personally I think it is more personable, you can tell them about what you have done, what is good and bad about living there, dealing with the negatives if the viewers raise questions etc.

I am sure for every person suggests that you should do them yourself there will be another saying you should let the "professionals" do it.

SellMyFlat_2

somethingcorporate wrote: »

We did all our own viewings, personally I think it is more personable, you can tell them about what you have done, what is good and bad about living there, dealing with the negatives if the viewers raise questions etc.

I am sure for every person suggests that you should do them yourself there will be another saying you should let the "professionals" do it.

Thats what I thought too. Plus all the feed back has been "they really like you and thought you were lovely...but...."
Sorry but I dont come with the flat! :rotfl:

Errata

Do your own viewings, and ask each viewer to tell you honestly what they think about the kitchen and bathroom (because they're the rooms that sell a property). What would make them like it as much as they like you.
Will that make you seem desparate to sell? It might, but if they don't like it doesn't really matter.