I have a friend who wants to sell his Mums house, his Mum died last week leaving no debts, he is comfortably off with his own large house so
will not need to sell for a profit.
The current value looking at zoopla for a two bed Victorian house with an extension and a 100ft garden in his area is around the 150k mark and in his area these little houses tend to sell within weeks at that price.
However he wants to sell it at the 100k mark to enable a young couple to buy it who may not be able to afford a family home or as an alternative to a ticky tacky box with no garden he is worried that if he goes to an ES they will try and talk him out of it and he is no good at confrontations and also he does not want it to be sold to a BLT landlord who will make a profit or an non Islander who may want it as a holiday home.
I think his best bet is to find through contacts a someone who wanted it let them have a private viewing and then put it on with an estate agent and the person can then view it again through the ES and make an offer which he will accept as this is what we did when we bought our house from a family friend at 90k below market value.
If he cant find a couple (or a single person) like that can he put it with an estate agent with these provisos and would he be allowed to get information about potential buyers before accepting an offer.
He knows that even if he sold to people who fit his criteria they have the right to sell it on for a profit and to who they like, but he is happy with that, as at least it would give someone a chance of climbing up the ladder by having a larger deposit for a larger family home should they need to.
Does anyone have any advise
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