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New Build - Paid SUBSTANTIALLY more than neighbour

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  • PokerPlayer111
    PokerPlayer111 Posts: 343 Forumite
    This sucks i'd be pretty !!!!ed but you are alive so can make the money back elsewhere.

    Defo in future offer on the low side for property, you have to protect your finances.
  • theartfullodger
    theartfullodger Posts: 15,698 Forumite
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    DJP1987 wrote: »
    ...........Is there anything I can do on this, ..............
    Congratulate your neighbour on their good fortune. If you had thought the price you were buying at was OK then fine.

    Or they could be winding you up: 'tis a game played, often of 'planes (.. my ticket was so cheap...) or on holiday (... we got this amazingly cheap deal.... family of 5 for £3:27!..)
  • ReadingTim
    ReadingTim Posts: 4,084 Forumite
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    Get used to the feeling mate - you'll be just as hacked off when someone else sells for more than you too....
  • AnotherJoe
    AnotherJoe Posts: 19,622 Forumite
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    Near where i live (Reading) second tranches of houses are soemtimes going for lower, because they are finding it harder to shift houses. Bricklayers are being laid off / put on reduced hours.

    So this is apparently according to local mutterings on social media, a fairly common experience.
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    ReadingTim wrote: »
    Get used to the feeling mate - you'll be just as hacked off when someone else sells for more than you too....


    What are the chances of that happening though? :rotfl:
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    It's a bit like talking to the guy in the seat next to you on a Ryanair flight...

    Simple answer is that if you'd waited until the developer got desperate to shift the last few plots, you may have found there were none left. You got in early, you got the full choice.


    No it isn`t, it is 30k, and as rates rise he is paying interest on it, the sooner debt is priced at sensible rates again the sooner people will stop thinking that getting into a few 100k debt is like buying a fish supper up the road, and hopefully more over-charging developers will start going bust :)
  • ReadingTim
    ReadingTim Posts: 4,084 Forumite
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    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    What are the chances of that happening though? :rotfl:

    How many years have you been saying that now Crashy? And have any of your hopes and dreams come true? Thought not.
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    ReadingTim wrote: »
    How many years have you been saying that now Crashy? And have any of your hopes and dreams come true? Thought not.


    Not sure how that explains the 30k drop in the OP`s street?
  • phill99
    phill99 Posts: 9,093 Forumite
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    If you look at the whole street of identical houses, I can pretty much guarantee that each one sold for a different price. That is how new house sales work.
    Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.
  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    Not sure how that explains the 30k drop in the OP`s street?
    I thought it was a 30k rise? i.e. the neighbour bought before him?
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