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How long did it take you to find your house?
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I have been looking for months now. I am able to compromise but my OH and DS aren't! So the search is centred on a smallish area and very little has been available in our price range recently. Hoping that the market starts to move a little more now, there are more houses being offered but still a slow trickle. A very slow trickle.I was jumping to conclusions and one of them jumped back0
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Almost a year. We started putting offers in around March 2015 and exchanged on a property in November. We completed December. We ended up bidding £25k over the lower asking price as we got fed up of looking and having bids rejected or gazumped. Happy with the house and the location0
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About 6 months of online searching, then I flew over, viewed the five houses I had short listed, and got the one we fell in love with just by the pictures
The compromise was, a pretty small kitchen compared to the size of the house. But it was modern enough to live with, if a bit cramped and was finally rectified three years ago0 -
We have been looking for 6 months for our new bungalow and lost 2 whilst trying to sell our house (now sold), the one we are after now is the 3rd and the best but a lot dearer than the other two which would have left us with spare cash - this one we have to put £35k to.
If we loose this one there is nothing else we like at all so god knows when we will find something :-(
It is amazing how many bungalows (bought for all being on 1 level) have really steep drives / on steep hills which wipes out the point really.Totally Debt Free & Mortgage Free Semi retired and happy0 -
We first started viewing in August last year, the house we are buying we first viewed in November so took 3 months to find one.
Didn't view loads, some weeks we didn't look at anything.
Legal work is still going on so hopefully move in sometime this century0
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