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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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  • Scotbot
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    GDB2222 said:
    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 leasehold 
    Divorce can be tricky. Sometimes, one partner can deliberately delay the sale.
    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 in
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