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Need advice on purchasing an apartment - Cash buyer

Messiah9 · 2020-09-02 20:24:10

Hi, I'm new here and also in the UK. Well, not exactly new in the UK but been here for almost 3 years. So far I've been living as a private tenant in an apartment and I'm on a work-permit visa. Now that I have some clarity about my future here, I'd like to purchase an apartment somewhere in south-east of England. Probably,…

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davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite

2 September 2020 at 10:21PM

numbercruncher8 said:

Combine a flat like that with someone who cannot afford it - for instance through loss of work - and there will be some that go through at bigger discounts. If there were not discounts for cash, the 'we buy your house' firms would never exist. But you may have to work hard to find these opportunities. Something genuinely priced to sell in the market ends up going quickly.

I suspect that sort of thing is probably best reserved for the more sophisticated buyer, rather than one who is apparently clueless about any of the processes involved.

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