A 'cheeky' offer on a house purchase

Kayalana99

IMO it depends how long it's been on market for too, if they are brand new and up at 170k and you come along within week and offer 150k they will just say no unless they are in some really bad circumstance and don't actually think the house would sell. If they had been on market 6 + months they might get a bit desperate and be more willing to negoiate on price.

It all depends on their situation as no matter what your reasoning is, they will have a price they are willing to sell it for and nothing you can say will make a difference to that, the only way you can get something that much cheaper is putting an offer in at the right time and place. If it was me I'd just put the offer in without any sort of 'because of XYZ' and leave them too it.

Crashy_Time

Kayalana99 wrote: »

IMO it depends how long it's been on market for too, if they are brand new and up at 170k and you come along within week and offer 150k they will just say no unless they are in some really bad circumstance and don't actually think the house would sell. If they had been on market 6 + months they might get a bit desperate and be more willing to negoiate on price.

It all depends on their situation as no matter what your reasoning is, they will have a price they are willing to sell it for and nothing you can say will make a difference to that, the only way you can get something that much cheaper is putting an offer in at the right time and place. If it was me I'd just put the offer in without any sort of 'because of XYZ' and leave them too it.

Yep, probably by this point there will be some people with houses on the market for literally YEARS. The problem will be solved by rate rises, or more likely, a recession.