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Greed? or foolish not to put back on the market?
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Don't do it. House in our street was up for offers over 140, they had an offer of 143 after a few days and declined is as they thought they'd get more.
The house then sat on the market for close to a year with the next best offer being around 135.
Better the devil you know and all that.0 -
I don't quite get what you mean about only seeing one EA and they were selling your dream home?
The EA you're using to sell had this open day and also has the house you want to buy?
How many houses did you go see before finding the one you want? I hated going to look at places when I was looking..PITA! easily worth a few k over the year or so I was looking!
Maybe it's not as ideal as you think if you need to go back to confirm it's 'the one'
also as others have said, you might not get the 10k extra!0 -
How would you feel if the house you want now, after accepts your offer, then says sorry we want £10K more?0
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Thank you for all that have responded.... we go back this evening to our dream home and if my heart still says yes then we are sticking with our original decision, I thought our buyers offer was fair.... and i just need to move on and get into our new home :-)
In twenty years' time, are you more likely to be saying:
"I wish I had £10k more equity in my house?"
or
"I wish we'd bought our dream house instead of spending twenty years living in this one."
Obviously you don't know, but if your home is important to you, I think you're more likely to regret twenty years of missing out, than £10k which is not much in the bigger scale of houses purchases!' <-- See that? It's called an apostrophe. It does not mean "hey, look out, here comes an S".0 -
i agree with everyone else - you've got an offer on the house you're selling, you have a chance to get your dream home ... I wouldn't jeopardise it for £10k that may not even materialise if you were to re-market.0
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