our ideal house under offer from someone else heartbroken but not sold ours yet

nadmaj

Hi

Ive had my house on the market a while, magnolised it and changed agents, have a viewing soon, seen and viewed our ideal house and just today it has gone under offer and i'm heartbroken.

I know that i have yet to sell my house but we've been looking for a while and nothing ticked the boxes except the ideal house but it's stc .. im hoping that it falls through.... i know it's not nice ..

has anyone had their ideal house sold and found another similar or better house...

anselld

nadmaj wrote: »

has anyone had their ideal house sold and found another similar or better house...

Of course! It was only your ideal house until your ideal house comes along.

nadmaj

anselld wrote: »

Of course! It was only your ideal house until your ideal house comes along.

I know but that was perfect for us right price, good area,perfect amount of space.. we've been looking for ages and that was the perfect one...................

McKneff

In a while, when you find somewhere else which at the time will be perfect for you (otherwise you wouldntbuy it) you will be saying 'Im glad that one that we thought was perfect actually fell through'

Loopy28

Not quite the same but similar....

While we were in the process of getting ready to sell our house, there were lots that looked suitable on the market. By the time we got our backsides into gear and got ours on the market, all the houses we liked had either been sold or withdrawn from the market.

Now there is literally nothing new coming on the market, ours has sold and I bet in the Spring after we have purchased one, lots will come on the market and we'll wish they came on earlier!

Bantex_2

nadmaj wrote: »

I know but that was perfect for us right price, good area,perfect amount of space.. we've been looking for ages and that was the perfect one...................

Unlikely you will ever find something as good, and if you do it will be more than you can afford.

Cuilean

nadmaj wrote: »

has anyone had their ideal house sold and found another similar or better house...

Oh yes - it's horrible, isn't it? I had a nice little starter home with my ex. Great street, near the town, an easy commute to work, nice schools for the future, parking was not a problem. Then we split up and I could only afford ten miles up the motorway. Nice enough, but wasn't a patch on my lovely old address.

Five years down the line, I'm married to a lovely new man, and my "not a patch on the old one" house is on the market. Imagine how excited I was to see one of the "family size" homes in my old street come on to Rightmove. We loved it so much that we got as far as having a surveyor come round and check it over, then prepared to put an offer in.

Then we got a call from the selling agent saying a London investor had appeared, and without even seeing it had offered over the asking price. We tried to match it, but every time we upped our offer, this investor increased his until we just couldn't match it. In the end, the vendor said "Sorry, I'll have to go with the investor because you've not even sold yours". We were gutted. I actually cried. I had pictured myself in the garden with the family, looked into new kitchens and mentally remodelled the downstairs into a kitchen diner.

We've found somewhere we like now, but it's very different, and more expensive. We've still not sold our place, but the (potential) new place has tenants in so the vendor is in no hurry. As a result of losing the first house, I'm a lot more cautious and won't let myself get so emotionally invested in a house, so I guess it wasn't all bad.

Go with McKneff on this one - it wasn't meant to be, and something even better is around the corner. Cold comfort at the moment, I know, but you will find something which will make you glad it didn't work out with the first house.

TBeckett100

Every house we have tried to buy has been the one. Truth is, we keep on looking right up to exchange and then if a better one comes up, we go for it.

The problem at present is lack of choice!

mum2boys83

this happened to me.
when I was an ex, we found our ideal house, then our buyer pulled out and our ideal house owner couldn't wait for us and it quickly got another offer.
when our flat finally had another buyer there wasn't much other houses we liked, we picked one that wasn't as good decorated as ideal house but similar, so I thought in time I could get that house as good as ideal house.
sadly within a year later we split up and a bit after ex moved in with someone else that just happened to be across the road from ideal house.
I got left in the house with young children so couldn't afford it on my own and had to move.
i would have been more gutted to leave ideal house but I was happy to move out lol
long story but every cloud has a silver lining x

jacko74

Yeah I'm currently experiencing a similar situation, in the last 12 months there's been at least 5 or 6 prroperties in my search area that have looked pretty much perfect for me and would certainly have been worth viewing if I was in a position to buy... now that I've sold my house and got the cash in the bank there's not a single property that I'm even vaguely interested in looking at!

jules888

I was in tears last year when thought we"d lost our house as only one in our price bracket that ticked all boxes and to be honest nothing as good in our price bracket has come on market since Feb last year when we bought ours.But doesnt mean will be the same for u,