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15 Viewings - No Offers...

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  • LittleMax
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    By the way - will soon be able to give you an update!
  • Crashy_Time
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    So you think I didn`t know prices were rising from 2012? LOL. We also know what transactions were doing, but that is another story.
    Erm, yes we do; both prices and transaction levels rose from 2012, what point were you trying to make?!?! B)
    Transactions pre-Covid were half what they were at their peak.
  • Crashy_Time
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    LittleMax said:
    By the way - will soon be able to give you an update!
    Is it more viewings, or an offer?
  • We lived in Frewen Road in Cawston, we had David Smylie from Picklescitt Homes sell our house for us on first viewing. I would highly recommend his expertise x
  • Crashy_Time
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    Pre - Covid that might have been doable, but different story now?
  • badger09
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    LittleMax said:
    By the way - will soon be able to give you an update!
    Is it more viewings, or an offer?
    Thought you didn't care :*
  • Crashy_Time
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    Caring and being interested are two different things, knowing how much the OP has been offered for the house is a good indicator on the general economy, sentiment and where banks are on lending, and those are interesting and important things IMO.
  • The north facing garden would be a deal-breaker for me. Sorry, as there's obviously nothing you can do about that, but it might have been the deal-breaker for at least some of your viewers. 
    Now you have included the boundary plan, which makes that clear, you might weed out people like me though. Without the plan I would probably view the house to check. 
  • Crashy_Time
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    LittleMax said:
    Likely already been said a million times but I would not pay 290 for this house. 230 at most. It is a bit of a weird shape and seem very squashed. It is a nice house still but not for that amount.
    200k absolute tops IMO, and that is taking into consideration that we are in a property bubble and people`s sense of value has been twisted for years, and the fact that something sold in the street 12 months ago isn`t really relevant as 12 months is a Universe away in economic terms now.
    Oh you do make me laugh - we paid £207k for it in 2012!  
    Maybe you overpaid in 2012? Economy was ticking along back then, it isn`t now, when you sell it tell us how much then have your laugh at me, how does that sound?

    The usual Crashy BS, house prices were only just starting to recover in 2012. A year or three after that they took off.
    Ok, so how much will this house sell for?

    More than it cost in 2012. Hopefully the OP will be round to tell us at some point soon.
    Its hard to generalise areas, but round here (central SE) prices are probably 40-50% above 2012.
    Asking prices don`t count...LOL.

    I'm talking selling prices. .... "LOL"
    Can you pop up some postcodes so we can take a look?

    Sure, look at Reading. Look at RG41 if you want to get close to my area. Thats where I've bought and sold since 2007.
    Bought at 200 sold at 250 in 2014 (after an estimated low of 150 around 2010) by 2018 houses in same road were going for 300 they are now around 300k. House prices here have been flat the last couple years.
    So,  that house I sold at 250 in 2014 would have been maybe 200 in 2012 (eg back to where i bought it 5 years previously to that)
    What you sold for in 2014 has no bearing on todays market, let us know how sales are going next year, that is the only data that counts.
    If I had to guess I would imagine that in 2014 you were saying exactly the same thing about sales in 2015.
    and then in 2015 you were saying the same thing about sales in 2016
    and and and and 

    This year it’s different though I guess.

    Yes, this year everyone is saying that sales and prices are going to drop.
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