What to offer?

youth_leader

ha ha I can't hide from you getmore4less you are such a good detective   I have to wait until tomorrow to see if the vendor will accept my offer.  I looked at a bungalow for £212K in Amble and it was lovely -  but if/when I stop driving the walk to the town was 25 minutes along a very busy main road.  
The crashy dream  bungalow is next door to my station.  When I started my tiny self catering unit at the station in 2009 the original owner from 1977 contacted me - he'd bought the station and all of the land surrounding it at the time for 'the stones' for £2000, and this bungalow was originally just a concrete slab he kept his collection of classic cars on.  
 

Unicorn_cottage

I don't understand all the bluster about the buyer/offerer being in control. You aren't. The vendor has an asset you want to buy. No housing market is the same although many areas in England are very hot right now.

carefullycautious

Hi, you were waiting on the offer you put down on the flat in Exmouth last time you were on. Did this fall through?. I thought that you could no longer cope with the cold winters up there and that was the reason you wanted to move south. 

youth_leader

Hello carefullycautious - my offer was rejected on the Exmouth flat as 'far too low'.  I didn't want to proceed so didn't increase my offer.    When I got  back from Devon my older dog was very poorly tummy wise after kennels, and after being up in the garden in the night with him, realise a garden is on my 'must have' list, I do want to open a door to a space of my own. I definitely don't like the cold winters we get up here, but my old house was single glazed draughty broken sash windows, with stripped floorboards throughout  - I think if I have a double glazed insulated home I can cope.  

NinjaTune

getmore4less said:

have you had a look at this one ( a crashy dream listing reduced from £325 to £250 in 2 years)
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55457493.html

Small beer, this one near me has dropped 90k in less than a year!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64741170.html

steve866

Unless there is multiple interested parties and it goes to best and finals this week, I would insist on them taking the property off the market by the COB Friday (i.e. no more viewings next weekend) considering you are a cash buyer offering full asking price.

Unicorn_cottage

steve866 said:

Unless there is multiple interested parties and it goes to best and finals this week, I would insist on them taking the property off the market by the COB Friday (i.e. no more viewings next weekend) considering you are a cash buyer offering full asking price.

Yes this is the issue!

NameUnavailable

Unicorn_cottage said:

I don't understand all the bluster about the buyer/offerer being in control. You aren't. The vendor has an asset you want to buy. No housing market is the same although many areas in England are very hot right now.

Depends how you look at it. Unless 'their' house was the only place you'd ever consider buying then I guess they're in control and can pretty much name their price. If as a buyer you are prepared to walk away and carry on looking for another property you are very much in control.

youth_leader

I must admit to being nervous about buying at the moment. My friend rang today to say there is an article in the Sunday Times about house prices, unfortunately I can't see it on-line without payment as I used the free trial once before.

Crashy_Time

youth_leader said:

Thanks ameliarate, I am fed up with myself for gabbling, I should have kept quiet.  I would have been delighted to have avoided the 30 plus viewings I had on my house, especially the one where the viewer's elderly mother nearly went head first down the front steps! 

Was that your rented house?