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How to recognise properties which need a quick sale? Hoping for a quick sale and a good deal!
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Or the opposite can happen as the couple so desperate to be rid of each otherand split the cash. . This happened to me, almost daily calls from their EA haranguing me to speed things up. Problem is you don't know which way it will go until a couple ofweeks inGDB2222 said:
Divorce can be tricky. Sometimes, one partner can deliberately delay the sale.Flugelhorn said:definitely go for no chain (death, divorce, second home, emigrating, ex rental etc etc) and offer a good price (definitely makes it go more quickly.
I have bought 3 in the last few years - all no chain, they were being sold because of divorce / emigration and buying new second home
they all went through very smoothly - 4 months was the most delay and that was leasehold0
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