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If you want a quick sale you will have to price the property EXCEPTIONALLY LOW anyway.
No-one is buying. No-one is lending.
The party is over.
I put my home on the market at 9am and a buyer viewed 1 hour later and made me an acceptable offer bang in the middle of three valuations. This was just two weeks' ago and the surveyor was in today.
People are buying. I confess my buyer is not a borrower and that I have my fingers crossed that the sale goes through smoothly. Then I'll rent for a while.
SquatNow reads too many newspapers. No doubt he wraps himself in them to keep warm.
GGThere are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.0 -
we know of a couple who are divorcing. The house is going for silly money...BUT....still no viewings :eek:
Houses have been selling for silly money for years. I suggest that it is still being marketed for silly money.
FTBers should be paying £60K tops in most areas.
GGThere are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.0 -
Aye. Sold signs still appear round here not long after the for sale sign. Someone is still buying...but obviously no squatters...or miserable sods living in granny annexes...furious at those who have done OK for themselves.Gorgeous_George wrote: »I put my home on the market at 9am and a buyer viewed 1 hour later and made me an acceptable offer bang in the middle of three valuations. This was just two weeks' ago and the surveyor was in today.
People are buying. I confess my buyer is not a borrower and that I have my fingers crossed that the sale goes through smoothly. Then I'll rent for a while.
SquatNow reads too many newspapers. No doubt he wraps himself in them to keep warm.
GGBeen away for a while.0 -
Hi, just been having a read through all this. Personally I wouldn't tell them your situation as it's not really any of their business. My house sold in less than a week at £5000 less than the asking price. ( dropped the price so soon as we liked the people that wanted to buy and they were struggling to find the last bit of cash)Good luck with your house sale and all that the future brings.0
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Interesting.
Firstly - do you want a quick sale? If you do, ask your estate agent what he thinks the lowest offer you should accept should be, compared to the 'normal' market price, and make a decision from there.
If you don't need a quick sale, then put it on the market for the 'normal' asking price and don't tell the EA the reasons. You could say it is just time to move on...? (Which is true!).
Just my thoughts...
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OP, are either of you tieing in the purchase of another property with the sale of this one? If not then I would make sure the agent and viewers are aware that you can offer no onward chain and are keen to do a deal, at the right price.
From my own experience, sales involving couples splitting up, don't attract lower bids than any other sale. They is certainly a perception that the sale may be complicated & drawn out due to the sellers situation, which tends to put people off.0 -
I just sold my house to the third person that looked around it.
We took a sensible cut (3k) but nothing ridiculous.
People still need somewhere to live. If they can afford the mortgage and plan to stay a few years, who cares? I don't fancy kipping in a hedgerow on the off-chance that armageddon occurs.
I'm off to buy a house now.
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