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New house what to offer
Pollydolly89
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Hi looking for a bit of advice looking to buy a 4 bedroom barratts house. It's currently priced at £243000 it's an excellent plot and is the last 3 houses left on a 40 new build development in Scotland. However I have just found out the 4 houses directly across the road are affordable housing. Would it be cheeky to offer £210000 or less. Thoughts and opinions greatly received.
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Pollydolly89 wrote: »Hi looking for a bit of advice looking to buy a 4 bedroom barratts house. It's currently priced at £243000 it's an excellent plot and is the last 3 houses left on a 40 new build development in Scotland. However I have just found out the 4 houses directly across the road are affordable housing. Would it be cheeky to offer £210000 or less. Thoughts and opinions greatly received.
Good grief Hyacinth ...... having neighbours who want to live in affordable housing! What could be worse! Why not look for something closer to the Golf Club?
It used to be no dogs or Irish. In these new politically correct times it seems that the less well off are still fair game.0 -
Hi Pollydolly and welcome to MSE. You'll probably find more helpful advice on the main housing board (house buying, selling and renting) rather than here on the debate board, where you'll find a bit of sensible economic debate, a fair amount of political and economic ranting, a bit of ad hominem mud slinging, and nothing much that's specific to a particular person's house purchase. (Oh, and you'll also find the "nice people thread" which is where those who have met and got to know each other discussing house prices decide they'd like to discuss other things with each other too.)Pollydolly89 wrote: »Hi looking for a bit of advice looking to buy a 4 bedroom barratts house. It's currently priced at £243000 it's an excellent plot and is the last 3 houses left on a 40 new build development in Scotland. However I have just found out the 4 houses directly across the road are affordable housing. Would it be cheeky to offer £210000 or less. Thoughts and opinions greatly received.
My personal advice, having lived in a Barratts house, is not to buy one. The build quality of the one I lived in was shocking. Not that that necessarily means that all Barratts houses are as bad. Fortunately I was only renting the one I lived in, so every time I discovered something else wrong with it, I wasn't the one who had to pay for putting it right.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
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Pollydolly89 wrote: »it's an excellent plot
Uh huh....the 4 houses directly across the road are affordable housing.
So..... Apart from that it's an excellent plot then?
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Offer what you want.
If it is one of the last to be sold on a popular development I doubt they will move much."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
I quite like picking up other people's litter and living near affordable housing has been a great way for me to pursue my hobby..
Excellent plot but just about the last on site? There's a reason for that.
Yes make a lower offer. It's Barratts - you're hardly going to hurt their feelings. You can always up it later.0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »If it is one of the last to be sold on a popular development I doubt they will move much.
Best time to make a cheeky offer. They'll be wanting to close the site down.0 -
Best time to make a cheeky offer. They'll be wanting to close the site down.
Even if they are flying off the shelves?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Even if they are flying off the shelves?
If they were flying off shelves sites would just have open days and get the buyers to queue in an orderly fashion to hand over the cash.
Sales reps would be redundant.0 -
Good grief Hyacinth ...... having neighbours who want to live in affordable housing! What could be worse! Why not look for something closer to the Golf Club?
It used to be no dogs or Irish. In these new politically correct times it seems that the less well off are still fair game.
To be fair, it would be nice not to have neighbours that look like begbie and have a penchant for deep fried marsbars and skag.
Try and get your finance sorted before you go in to the sales hut. If you have approved lending for say 210K, and make sure they know that you are serious and want a quick sale, they will eat into their margins.0 -
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