How long house hunting ?

jimbog

Davesnave wrote: »

If you know the market well enough, as you should by now, you'll know which properties offer value at the asking price, or even slightly above it.

Make sure you're on first name terms with the local agents - pop in sometimes for a chat so that when the 'one' arrives (which it will) they will contact you before it even makes Rightmove.

Go straight in at the asking price as long as it is not ridiculous. Whereas I am always looking for a 'bargain' when it comes to a nice houses in a desirable area just finding getting it is relief enough

Scottishgal19

It seems to be the same here very little has come on the market over the last few months Fingers crosses it was just wrong time of year and over the next month or two we will have more come up.

SensibleSarah

Friends of mine took 1 day of househunting to find their first home and have an offer accepted. It took me probably 18 months from when I viewed my first house in person, to when I actually got the keys (was 6 months from offer accepted to completion so lets call it 12 months of actual looking/offering).
I had a very limited budget, but not ridiculously small, and needed to have a garden (dog) and not be too close to a main road (cats) but didn't have a particularly tight geographical limit so thought it wouldn't be that hard - I was wrong!
Offered on one other house than I one I ended up buying. It was a repossession property and someone bid more - I was fine with that - wasn't exactly a dream home. Got fed up and ended up buying a house that I didn't hate quite as much as most of the others I saw - please don't follow that path!