Should I Offer Asking Price Before Viewing?

ElizabethRose

What is perfect on rightmove isn't always perfect in real life. Deceptive angles, extra unseen work etc.

I've offered after first viewing without loads of questions as I'd researched and noted the boiler needed replacing without asking etc. Go for the viewing, if you want it and feel there is a genuine risk put in your best and final offer.

steve866

I would expect your asking price offer will be used as a benchmark for the other viewers to need to beat. Are you chain free with a decent deposit? Have the sellers found somewhere and what’s the state of their onward chain?

I would try and build rapport with the agent in the viewing and let them know how serious you are. I would then send an email offering asking price (or just a little below) and state all the good reasons to go with you (chain free? Mortgage and solicitor ready to go, can be flexible on timing etc).

Capri84

Forget the asking price. In the current market you’ll need to slap 10-30k on top of that to ‘win’

We’ve given up on chasing the new to market ones, and going to look at older ones that haven’t sold to see if they’ll accept an offer under the asking. 

CLJ2986

We had a similar situation, found a house we loved on rightmove and rang the estate agents immediately, all the houses of that size in our budget had been selling STC within hours so we asked about offering before the viewing and were told no. We viewed and offered immediately after. Put an offer for the asking price and it was accepted the same day. The house had been on rightmove for 3 days at this point! We then had issues with our AIP and mortgage prospects, which we were upfront and honest about with EA who were happy to keep our offer active but continue viewings until we got sorted with an AIP. So you don't always need to make a super high offer! If we have to do it again, I would just make sure we had an AIP from a broker first... I had 2 I'd done myself, and  the broker I then spoke to said he saw no reasons why we wouldn't get one but hadn't keyed it himself, 6 weeks later and we are with a 2nd broker on an adverse lender application.