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I feel that I over offered on the house, what to do now?
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Here is the list of repairs:
However, most items are really minor.
If you asked me for £9,000 off for those minor repairs I'd tell you where to go and recommend you look at new builds if you want a house that's perfect. Perhaps if you are in a good position to buy and the seller is motivated to move you might get one or two thousand knocked off as a goodwill gesture?
However unless the seller is desperate you have no chance of £9k and as others have said perhaps you need to revisit your preferred area or increase your budget to find a more suitable house for you.Every generation blames the one before...
Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years0 -
How do you deduce that the money for work has been taken off to reach a figure of 185,000£?0
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MobileSaver wrote: »If you asked me for £9,000 off for those minor repairs I'd tell you where to go and recommend you look at new builds if you want a house that's perfect. Perhaps if you are in a good position to buy and the seller is motivated to move you might get one or two thousand knocked off as a goodwill gesture?
However unless the seller is desperate you have no chance of £9k and as others have said perhaps you need to revisit your preferred area or increase your budget to find a more suitable house for you.
PropertyLog regularly shows 10,25, even 50k asking price reductions.0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »even 50k asking price reductions.
On £200,000 houses in Bristol?!?!Every generation blames the one before...
Mike + The Mechanics - The Living Years0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »PropertyLog regularly shows 10,25, even 50k asking price reductions.
Why do you spend so much time looking it property prices if you intend to live the rest of your life in rented?"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius0 -
MobileSaver wrote: »On £200,000 houses in Bristol?!?!
No, 50k+ tends to be London, on houses originally asking more than 300k.0 -
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Crashy_Time wrote: »No, 50k+ tends to be London, on houses originally asking more than 300k.
Of no use to the OP. Again you try to derail a thread.
Have now blocked you.Gather ye rosebuds while ye may0 -
How do you deduce that the money for work has been taken off to reach a figure of 185,000£?
Looks like the report stated, "it is considered that the current open
market valuation of this property", which would tend to suggest that it is valued at 185k in its current condition and not 185k after works are undertaken.
How did you get on trying to get a reduced price from the seller?0 -
Please stop quoting Crashy Time.
I'll offer some facts instead. On average, houses go for 96.3% of asking price.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/discover/property-news/average-asking-prices-almost-matching-what-homes-are-sold-for/The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.
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