Sold house in one week OMG

catzooo

Put house on market last Wednesday. Been away for the weekend, came home and have had 2 viewings.
Just accepted an offer 5k under price.
It's a young lady, 1st time buyer. Mortgage thru estate agent already approved.
Shocked. Need to find a solicitor fast. Can anyone recommend an online one?

nubbins

I used RMNJ recently and they were pretty good


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5210339

fairy_lights

If you've had two viewings in less than a week are you sure you want to settle for an offer under the asking price? If you hold out for a while someone may offer full price. Unless you're in a hurry to sell.

dgtazzman

Grats, not to boast, but I sold mine this week in a day

EA came Monday afternoon, went on Rightmove and their own site around 10PM in the evening, had an offer just shy of asking price around 8PM yesterday from a FTB with nothing to sell, armed with a mortgage in principle

They were the first to view the property at 17:30 yesterday.

Asking was 215k, offer was 210k, could hold out for more, but Murphy's law dictates otherwise...

Moving back to where I came from, Holland, going to be so much fun to clear the house and start over again from scratch. At least my father is putting me up for a while, so cheap living for however long it takes me to find a house over there ^^

lizards

This happened to us when we sold ours to move into rented a few years ago - two days. In fact I couldn't believe it especially as there were some other offers 10% under asking price and we had over-priced it not expecting asking price offers. I think I even posted somewhere asking if it could be too good to be true and was it a scam and if so, how? ;-)

Two years later we've basically done the same thing to our seller now we're buying again. I think she felt the same as we did as the EA says she's rung a few times to check everything is legit! Luckily our broker has seen all the P60s, payslips etc and was able to reassure the EA who they have a good relationship with.

It's really great when it works out so well. If only all sales could be this way!

djedga

We sold ours in a week as well (our first house sale).

We had 35 viewings through the house over 5 days. It was a little manic and happened faster than we expected, the agents spent more time in our house than we did!

Turned down a couple of offers over asking who couldn't proceed and had 3 asking price offers of which only one really stood out as the "best candidate"...

We're now proceeding with our purchase and nervously awaiting the formal mortgage offer.. :mad:

r_holmes22

I'm not at all jealous(!) Ours 'only' took fourteen months to sell and at £5k less than what we paid for it. Conversely, the houses we are looking to buy seem to be selling within days of appearing on Rightmove!!

Bah!

Loolah

Back in 2005 I was renting out my house while I was trying out a new town 2hrs away, when tenancy came to an end agent has people on his books he knew would be interested. I handed keys over at 11 and drove home, as I walked thru the door phone was ringing had two offers for full asking price!

djedga

r_holmes22 wrote: »

the houses we are looking to buy seem to be selling within days of appearing on Rightmove!!

Bah!

Get in there with the agents, right move, zoopla, prime location always a little delayed from the agents websites. If you befriend them enough you may even hear about placed before they hit the market!

paulsad

Don't count your chickens till you've exchanged!

djedga

Never a truer word spoken paulsad!