Is it worth asking for £2,000 price drop for work discovered after survey?

t0rt0ise

You would usually get the estate agent to do it. That's what's happened to us selling a probate house. The buyers got the estate agent to ask for a discount. We have agreed to a smaller discount than they asked for because as others are saying most of the defects were obvious and the price reflected that, but a couple of things weren't obvious so we gave in slightly.

I might add that some are saying that the sellers are usually desperate to get a probate house off their hands, that is not always the case and with us it's the exact opposite. We aren't in any particular rush to sell and were quite willing had they not agreed to our figure, to put the house back on the market.

Mr_da

I rang up their estate agent, told them what it had been valued at and work needing doing. I also emailed survey across, some say you shouldn't but it worked out OK. Though must admit I wish everything on survey had been right to save asking. But I'd definitely ask

Johnjones7656

Thanks-so would we simply say we'd like to renegotiate the price based on the quotes for the work the survey discovered?

martinthebandit

Johnjones7656 wrote: »

Thanks for your advice.


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yoshiyella

I would also add that it depends on where you are and how much interest there would likely be.

I'm in London and when we sold our last house, we had dozens of offers at the asking price so if anyone had come to us asking for the discount we would have told them where to go (obviously politely) as we knew we'd get a buyer within 24 hours.