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Visiting a house after offer's been accepted?
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If the whole process goes on for ages (which it sometimes can, if there's a chain involved), then coming back for another look can both reassure you and the vendor. Due to factors outside my control, I put in an offer on a house in November, and was unable to complete until June. I asked to come back and have another look in May, which gave me a chance to remind myself why I loved the house so much, and also meant I could reassure the vendor that I still wanted to buy it!0
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phoebe1989seb wrote: »This.
Prior to buying our current house we had had an offer accepted on another in a different part of the county (still some 200 miles from the house we were living in/selling) and it was only by chance that we decided to do a second viewing before exchange to show the house to DS (21) who was living away from home at the time.
On arrival at the house we were surprised to see a quantity of diggers etc in the car park that separated the rear garden of the house from fields. This car park belonged to the country inn next door. We asked both the vendor and her EA (who were present at both first and second viewings) what this signified and both denied all knowledge of any building work. On our way home we called in to speak to the manager of the EA who informed us that two bungalows were being built there. He said the EA that showed us over was not aware of this!
On arriving home we checked the online planning portal and discovered two detached houses were being built behind *our* grade 2 property completely masking the view - one of our main reasons for choosing the house in the first place. We spoke on the phone to the EA who still denied these were anything other than bungalows :mad:
We pulled out of the purchase and the house took a further 18 months to sell - for a greatly reduced price - so pleased we had that second viewing
Hadn't your solicitor spotted it in the searches?Gather ye rosebuds while ye may0 -
Thanks, I'll go before exchange of contracts in that case.
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Our offer was accepted in May and we finally moved into the house in November. We ended up visiting monthly and speaking to each other on the phone to see how their new build was progressing as it was easier ti get news from the rather than the builder with whom they'd partexed the house!0
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D'oh......phoebe1989seb wrote: »No, because admittedly we had opted not to bother with searches as we were trying to push for relatively quick exchange and completion0 -
Crikey!! Only two visits?? We are in the process of buying a house and have now been 3 times, had a surveyor round, had Rentokil out there and are expecting to go at least once more to measure up, check how (complicated) heating works etc before completing. We are paying mega bucks - need to know so we can plan before moving in. We expect when we sell ours same will happen. It's the biggest and most important purchase you will ever make - you need to be informed. Even to buy a car you would probably go to the garage twice.0
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Don't just visit to pop into the house, go and park-up in street on a Fri evening and at 8:30am when kids are going to school to get a feel of the street, pop into the local boozer and newagent and fish for info, try and speak to the neighbourhood PCSO to gauge how much 'bother' there is.
Golden rule is avoid any house where the parked-up cars stay all day = unwaged.
I actually went into the property four times.0 -
phoebe1989seb wrote: »No, because admittedly we had opted not to bother with searches as we were trying to push for relatively quick exchange and completion
And your solicitor agreed to that?
It's totally insane to proceed without such basic information-as you nearly found out. It could have been a road coming through your house rather than new builds behind it.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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And your solicitor agreed to that?
It's totally insane to proceed without such basic information-as you nearly found out. It could have been a road coming through your house rather than new builds behind it.
She did. Quite agree......lesson learned there;) Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed0
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