About to exchange - should I lower my offer?

Upcycling_Queen

Look, we were cash buyers too. It doesn’t make that much difference as you still have to go through conveyancers. The market has really changed. I completed on my dream house on 5th September and I still love it.

if I were buying this week, I would have made a lower offer. It’s the luck of the draw!😊

Woolsery

htcclub said:

Now, I will have some specialist surveys done, if these flag over 5k of work, should I ask vendor to fix this prior to exchange? so that I don't need a new mortgage offer

Never get a vendor to fix anything. You won't have a contract with whoever does the work, there may well be a bodge and many vendors won't want the hassle anyway.

Sarah1Mitty2

Yes, get a professional to fix things, and include it in the reduction.

badger09

Sarah1Mitty2 said:

Yes, get a professional to fix things, and include it in the reduction.

Precisely how do you propose OP ‘get a professional to fix things, and include it in the reduction’ when they don’t yet own the property? 

Sarah1Mitty2

badger09 said:

Sarah1Mitty2 said:

Yes, get a professional to fix things, and include it in the reduction.

Precisely how do you propose OP ‘get a professional to fix things, and include it in the reduction’ when they don’t yet own the property? 

Ok, get a professional to give a quote based on the survey and deduct it from the offer.

Sarah1Mitty2

Not4turning said:

Look, we were cash buyers too. It doesn’t make that much difference as you still have to go through conveyancers. The market has really changed. I completed on my dream house on 5th September and I still love it.

if I were buying this week, I would have made a lower offer. It’s the luck of the draw!😊

5th September this year?