Buyers - do not pay the prices the greedy sellers want

zappahey

Jorgan wrote: »

I drove down a road today which has six properties for sale. I was invited to value all of them when they were first put on the market, each vendor went with a higher valuation from a competitor.

I've posted this before, and no doubt I'll post it again, but we had four agents round last week to value and only one of the four would acknowledge that things have slowed down. The valuations were £20k apart with the highest being super-confident that it was achievable with the lowest saying that even at that price it could be difficult.

The evidence of my eyes suggests that the agent which valued at the highest figure has the most for sale boards up but the conservative valuer appears to have the most "sold" boards. That was good enough for us.

I can imagine that it's quite easy to suckered into the higher valuations when the agent expresses such confidence.

bdon

Let's face it - if you're selling something; car, house, stuff on ebay - as a seller you want the highest price. Is that "greed"?

nelly_2

bdon wrote: »

Let's face it - if you're selling something; car, house, stuff on ebay - as a seller you want the highest price. Is that "greed"?

Yes! Yes it is!

I just sold my old van for £550 similar ones were going for £700

I just thought 550 was fair enough rather then try to scrimp a few extra quid

The reason houses arnt selling is EXACTLY because morons think they can get top whack rather than stop being nob heads and start to be reasonable

bollax to 'em I say its their own fault

nelly_2

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

Buy on line and save 200 spondoolies.

GG

whats that about?

200 quid less

Its allright this new fangled internetwork init

I wonder if it does !!!!!! too?

nelly_2

zappahey wrote: »

I've posted this before, and no doubt I'll post it again, but we had four agents round last week to value and only one of the four would acknowledge that things have slowed down. The valuations were £20k apart with the highest being super-confident that it was achievable with the lowest saying that even at that price it could be difficult.

The evidence of my eyes suggests that the agent which valued at the highest figure has the most for sale boards up but the conservative valuer appears to have the most "sold" boards. That was good enough for us.

I can imagine that it's quite easy to suckered into the higher valuations when the agent expresses such confidence.

Everyone is different Im a plasterer and pretty much have set prices for things, and I know I'm middle of the road but some people say I'm cheap and others say I'm expensive.... everyone has a different idea of what things are worth.

I did a room last week (re skim) priced at £150 she had 2 other prices one at 250 and one at 350. One of the other plasterers said I must be shight cos I said I'd do it in a day and he'd take 2 1/2 days.

As it happens I was recommended to them from someone off here who I am in the middle of a job for them so they came to check my work, took one look and said yes hes [STRIKE]rubbish [/STRIKE] fantastic and we did the job and very happy she is with it too.

I left at half 3 the other lad would still be there another day and a half so whos shight now pal

ManAtHome

nelly wrote: »

whats that about? 200 quid less

Puh, now you're a posh git you prolly have a spare bog - keep the beer in that and save £504.50 to £900...

TBeckett100

i think the attitude of buyers on here stinks. sellers naturally want to get as much as they can. when buyers come to sellers they will also want the best.

abaxas

Lets not forget that in the past, EAs have refused to put properties on their books, simply because they knew they couldn't sell them.

What is going to happen to all these kite flyers when no-one wants to market their properties?

People need to remember that, even if something has always been available, that doesn't mean it cant be taken away from you. EAs are businesses, you have no right to anything from them.

poppy10_2

EAs need their commission, and they will be advising their clients to slash their prices if they aren't selling - having vendors keep their properties on the market for 6months+ is not in their interests.

TBeckett100

just had a search in berkshire and a lot of those houses where there many months ago. things have ground to a halt