for those with there house for sale how low are the silly offers coming in at ?

LizzieandThomas

LisbonLaura wrote: »

:rotfl:

Thxs for the entertainment Lizzie.

Hyacinth Bucket would be proud of you

Your second post was by far the best I thought...All that nose-in-the-air righteous indignation (& sod all those priced out by the morally obscene last ten years). It was beautiful. You've made my day. HUGZ


(& my sincere apologies if you were by chance being serious)

it wasnt nose in the air it is a fact ! i brought this house 4 years ago !!!

As said its an open forum, i had a question just noone is answering the one i asked !

dweeby

Getting back on topic...

We had our house up for £154,950 and had 2 offers, £150k and £153,250. We accepted the £153,250 and moved last week. We'd been on the market for ~6 months, and we live in Carlisle.

BUT... estate agents had valued our house at £167k and £175k!!! we thought that these were highly overvalued, so went on for much less in the first place. Wanted to sell, and wasn't interested in highly inflated estate agent valuations. Trouble is, I think a lot of people believe the estate agents - then hold out (and don't sell!).

LizzieandThomas

andyyorks wrote: »

It was a reasonable question to ask. For those of us who've been around these boards a while it is frustrating to see what these boards have become and why I don't visit as much. Some can't even be bothered to read the original post before going down the sell at any price line. MSE used to be a very supportive place to post.

i dont think i will bother on here again. Thanks to those who have actually bothered to answer the question in hand and those who have not been !!!!!!.

i was not after advice on what to do with my offer - i know what i will do and what im willing to sell for.

I will wait if needed i just put my house up for sale now so ididnt have to pay for a hip .

mpsavuk

LizzieandThomas wrote: »

My house is worth what im asking , if i cant sell for a reasonable figure in this market i will just wait - what makes people think that i would be that desperate to let it go so cheap - you can not buy anything for £115,000 or £127,000 in the area i live !

Personally i think you're just being greedy.And also you don't seem to understand the difference between what you think your property is worth and what the market thinks it's worth.

You're going to be very dissapointed.

LizzieandThomas

mpsavuk wrote: »

Personally i think you're just being greedy.And also you don't seem to understand the difference between what you think your property is worth and what the market thinks it's worth.

You're going to be very dissapointed.

being greedy i have put it on at less than what was suggested !


Im only intrested in replies to my question, thanks.

Romani_Ite_Domum

LizzieandThomas wrote: »

no i was asking what offers people had had - whether it was 6 days ago, 6 weeks or 6 months !

I had an offer of 20% below, 4 months ago. After negotiation we settled on 10% below. They then pulled out.

If its a genuine offer then anything above 75% of the asking price is an offer.
It's better than no offer.

Out of interest, are you considering buying again? What would be a reasonable offer that you would make?

LisbonLaura

LizzieandThomas wrote: »

it wasnt nose in the air it is a fact ! i brought this house 4 years ago !!!

As said its an open forum, i had a question just noone is answering the one i asked !

Lizzie, I apologise.

I honestly thought this was a spoof.

I hope you can see why?

Merton

No offer is silly - all offers are what the potential buyer thinks a place is worth. You're bound to get offers lower than you think you want for your place because we're in a falling market. In a rising market the situation is very different. You're in a very strong position of being able to pass on any reductions you accept higher up the chain. You accept less for your place, you pay less for the one you buy and so it goes on. House prices are falling - we all have to adjust. Good luck!

guyrulius

I offerred 120k on a flat in Southampton that was on the market for 135k back in July. The vendor declined my offer. The flat is still on the market. I may just put in an offer when the value has fallen to 65k.

Thanks Mr Credit Crunch - Just in Time.

ruggedtoast

Rightmove link! Rightmove link!