We really can't afford the house we want/need will things get better for us or just forget it?

mrsmortgage

I'm selling via a EA, so they've told them we're expecting above the guide price. Which again would have been solved if they had advertised it initially at the higher price. 

phoebe1989seb

Am I right in thinking the house you were originally interested in is SSTC now, OP?

mrsmortgage

Waunakee said:

I really can’t understand your logic here.You are the client and as such should be dictating the asking price,realistic or otherwise
You say you have a full asking price offer which is what given that you are marketing with a guide price only? 
Is the other offer the one from the “we buy any house” type outfit which you mentioned in the other thread
The pictures,particularly those downstairs,are awful and certainly wouldn’t entice me to view.Looked back at the previous ad which I guess is from when you bought and the house looks so much better in those

No, I've got two offers at the full asking price. 

I know I'm the client here but I know that upping the price randomly won't look good.

And yes the house I liked the most is now sold. 

lookstraightahead

So you've got a house you won't sell yet and a house you wanted that had been sold to someone else.

I think you should tell your poor potential purchasers that they shouldn't wait around. 

Your kids will have flown the nest by the time you make a decision, and then you will need to change your criteria anyway,

By the time we get to page 3468741 your little one will be 18.

Crashy_Time

wewilldoit said:

Deleted_User said:

I was struggling to understand this post when I first read it and now 5 days later I still don't understand what the point of this discussion is. 

You're complaining that you can't afford the house you want yet go on over 25 pages listing off all the things that you aren't prepared to do, or give up, in order to get the said house. 

Whilst I can appreciate the reasons you don't want to make those sacrifices, what I can't fathom is why you have come here to moan about it. Sorry, but I can't help feeling a little unsympathetic. 

Exactly and it’s not even the first thread/post, same comments for weeks and thousands of views!! 

Yes, because thousands of people are in the same situation, a property bubble built on cheap lending and kept inflated by zero rates is for the benefit of bankers and developers, not ordinary people.

Crashy_Time

Small glimmer of hope.....

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/london-house-prices-fall-furlough-stamp-duty-holiday-b940950.html

mrsmortgage

Crashy_Time said:

Small glimmer of hope.....

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/london-house-prices-fall-furlough-stamp-duty-holiday-b940950.html

I really hope so. Still no houses on the market for us, and at least one of the offers doesn't have an expiry date. In all honesty, I thought there would be more interest by now,  when I sold my first house most of the viewings were arranged withing a few days of being listed. So I tell my husband that we should count our blessings with the offers we've got but he's calling me impatient. 

hazyjo

Crashy_Time said:

Small glimmer of hope.....

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/london-house-prices-fall-furlough-stamp-duty-holiday-b940950.html

For you or the OP... 😉 

mrsmortgage

hazyjo said:

Crashy_Time said:

Small glimmer of hope.....

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/london-house-prices-fall-furlough-stamp-duty-holiday-b940950.html

For you or the OP... 😉 

It would be for lost people who are trying to buy a house in the current market

phoebe1989seb

mrsmortgage said:

Edenbridge said:

I see you are now actively marketing your existing house......what happened with the full asking price offer you supposedly had on the table?

I actually have two offers. The thing is, I've always told the EA, that £250k should be the asking price as I wanted closer to £260k (a couple of other EAs said it was achievable) but this EA refuses to change that  

I appreciate that the property market isn't particularly *normal* right now and in some places things are selling for well in excess of the asking price, but imho, if you wanted £260k you should have pitched it either at £260k or indeed a bit higher.

Otoh, the EA is working for you - why wouldn't they set the price you, their client, wants? And why didn't you insist on that...or choose a different EA???