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Selling Acronyms

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Goath
Goath Posts: 63 Forumite
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edited 4 December 2017 at 4:02PM in House buying, renting & selling
Selling Acronyms





My Question is, what is best to have on a listing out of all them :-

No Acronym

(I don’t really want to have “in excess of” I don’t like the sound of it)

Or

Offers in the region of – I would like viewers to know that I am open to offers.

Many Thanks
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  • Comms69
    Comms69 Posts: 14,229 Forumite
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    Honestly it actually makes no difference.


    Offers in excess off doesn't make a difference. I'd still look, and offer what I thought was reasonable. which could well be less.
  • glentoran99
    glentoran99 Posts: 5,821 Forumite
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    Offers around
  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    "Excess" does have negative connotations. In Scotland it's generally "offers over" which is a bit simpler - why use four words when you can use two? (and in practice sellers are often still open to offers below).
  • JoJo1978
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    My house had a guide price of x-x. We accepted an offer from someone who offered something below the bottom end. We did that to get into 2 purchase brackets on Rightmove.

    We purchased something that had a fixed price no abbreviations. Still offered below that price got accepted. We accepted that offer due to the circumstances of the vendor.

    Doesn’t really make a difference would be my opinion
  • Aylesbury_Duck
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    Comms69 wrote: »
    Honestly it actually makes no difference.


    Offers in excess off doesn't make a difference. I'd still look, and offer what I thought was reasonable. which could well be less.
    Exactly this. Don't get hung up on marketing descriptors, they are utterly pointless.

    "Competitively priced" is a personal favourite, along with "Priced to sell". A complete waste of words on the page/screen.
  • Comms69
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    Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »
    Exactly this. Don't get hung up on marketing descriptors, they are utterly pointless.

    "Competitively priced" is a personal favourite, along with "Priced to sell". A complete waste of words on the page/screen.



    Gotta get those buzzwords in!


    Spacious property, priced to sell, close proximity to transport links.


    = Normal property at this price, there's a bus stop with-in 300 metres....
  • ReadingTim
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    To me, (in England) any acronym suggests a qualification to the price or offer process - a sort of "yes, but...." statement from the seller which I could do without. It may not mean it, but it certainly says it.

    I'd ditch it - if you're confused then your buyers will be too.
  • frugalmacdugal
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    Hi,

    folks will pay what they think house is worth, and what they can afford.

    I like talking face to face with sellers/viewers, then you can negotiate, shake hands, and go see solicitor, get legalities sorted.
  • 00ec25
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    OIRO is not an acronym, as you do not pronounce the letters as their own word. It is merely an abbreviation.

    "Offers in the region of" is simply full blown wording. It is meaningless, and has no place in selling property in the England and Wales property market (I know nothing about Scotland or N Ireland) as this is one of the few places where we still "haggle" and "expect" to buy for anything other than the stated price. Therefore, "offers in the region of" is implicit to the straightforward word "price".

    "offers in excess of" can be regarded as a turn off by many as it implies the vendor has a fixed price below which he will not go. A price the purchaser may well regard as too high to begin with so won't bother. In addition, there is no "pleasure"(?) to be obtained by the purchaser from the haggle, and thus the purchaser does not feel "content" that they secured THE Deal they wanted.

    priced to sell is also meaningless since it will sell for what it fetches. "Discounted by 20k to comparable properties sold prices within the last 2 months" would be more meaningful, but I somehow doubt you'd ever see that used :D
  • Surrey_EA
    Surrey_EA Posts: 2,042 Forumite
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    00ec25 wrote: »
    OIRO is not an acronym, as you do not pronounce the letters as their own word. It is merely an abbreviation.

    Would it not be an initialism?
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