How many times did you view before you put a offer in

Surrey_EA

ka7e wrote: »

As the property is empty, the only people who might be inconvenienced by multiple viewings, is the EA.

In this case the "EA" is Purple Bricks, who operate on a pay upfront basis (you can defer the fees if you use their solicitors) so unlike a conventional EA there is no incentive for PB to carry out multiple viewings, as their fee is already in the bag.

Murphybear

Last time we bought a property we viewed about 50. We saw a bungalow with decent gardens, magical flower beds, (think Alice through the Looking Glass) greenhouse, shed and workshop and small conservatory.

The owners were elderly and couldn't manage it any more. We made an offer while were there which was accepted and a few months later moved in.

Sometimes you just know a property is "the one" and don't need to visit it more than once. We would still be in that bungalow if we hadn't decided to move from Northants to Devon.

hazyjo

Usually once - sometimes twice.


Agree with Mojisola. Just go for the second time with parents. Is it both sets of parents, ie 6 of you going round or just one set?!

cherryblossomzel

Two viewings for me, 5 days apart. Made the offer a few hours after the second viewing. I will go back to measure the floors and to see if it's been cleaned as they've promised they would. But this place is empty so only an inconvenience to the estate agent to let me in.

wantonnoodle

We viewed our house twice. Once before we offered, the second was about 10 days after the offer was accepted; we took my parents and my aunt & uncle (my uncle is a retired RICS surveyor) to do a survey of sorts. The only surveys we paid for were the valuation and the subsequent structural report the lender needed. My uncle's report and advice told us everything we needed to know, plus we knew he was on our side.

circuit

I like to view twice if a vendor is doing their own viewings. It's sometimes very difficult to see the house properly when there is someone wittering on about what they've been doing for the last 20 years.
At one vendor-led viewing he walked into the rooms with my husband and left me standing on the landing! If you view with an EA they know to allow you to make your own way and enter rooms first, which IMO would cut down on the need for a second look.

If you like the house I agree with the other posters that you should know more or less as soon as you leave the first viewing, once it's sunk in for a few minutes. If there are any compromises to consider, you might go back for a second look and compare a few different properties to see which compromises you could live with.

Three viewings sound a bit much, but if the first was an open house I'd just ask for a longer second viewing and avoid booking another unless I was definitely going ahead and needed to measure up.

phoebe1989seb

Current house we viewed once and offered at the end of the viewing. It was a repossession and we'd driven three hours to see it. We did insist on an hour at the property though to enable us to investigate both house and land especially as we had no intention of having a survey.

Our own sale had exchanged so we were looking to tie things up quickly - as were the lenders in possession - so it made sense to not waste more time than was necessary.

We did go back for a second viewing - of the grounds only - after our offer had been accepted to meet up with borehole companies as there was no mains water at the property.

Previously we've bought a 3500 sq ft house without seeing the ground floor till after we'd had an offer accepted - it was currently divided into flats and the ground floor tenant refused access. As we'd also viewed the virtually identical house next door - and it was our dream home, or would be once converted back to a family home - we felt confident to make that decision

Nice house btw, OP - loads of potential. Hope you are successful!

Mnd

We walked in, 15 min later I was sat in our new garden with the seller having a beer!
14 years later I still love this house and cannot imagine living anywhere else. Ever

ThinkPink

We viewed our house three times in total before we put an offer in. But this was only because we viewed it in the October along with other houses and decided to proceed with another house, but that fell through. We went started looking again in the December and as it was still on the market went back and looked again and we're ready to put an other in, but because of a slightly odd layout wanted my dad's opinion so went back with him then put the offer in.

With the other houses we had put offers in on (we were very unlucky buyers and two other sales fell through) we viewed twice each time. The main reason for this was because each time we had viewed a few houses each day (do started to forget which house had certain things in them) so wanted to go back and be sure. I do think three times in short succession is a lot.