House buying - how daft is it to...fall in love with a house before you've even viewed it.

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I think I've found 'the one', right price, right area, right garden. In a very small property pool and made even smaller by what DH will and won't look at.

TBF it's his house we are selling, which he loves, purely so I can have a garden and stop filling up our tiny back yard with pots.

But it came up today, we are seeing it tomorrow, I'm so convinced it's right. I just want to put an offer in right now.

Anyone else managed that?

We've looked at several so know what we will and won't compromise on now.

We did, the house we currently live in being the only one where an offer was accepted before we viewed and I was the only one viewing it, DH saw it after paperwork had started.

No, don't put an offer in without seeing it. I appreciate that you might want a house which is a joint purchase rather than living in his, but that's not a good reason to rush things.

We did too! We'd agreed to buy it before we saw inside it for ourselves. Even worse it had tenants at the time so we waited year to buy it and stopped looking at everything else.
Fortunately inside was fine and we've been here 2 years now.

My DM has bought at least two properties that I know of without setting foot inside. She does it because they are the right type of house in the right street. She doesn't care what they're like inside as she's happy to rip out and fit out. To be clear, these are homes she lives in herself, not rentals, although I've no doubt she's done it with the investment properties she's had too.

We used to walk past our house on our way to the park when our boys were little. Every time DH used to say, "If that house ever goes on the market we're having it."
It went on the market just as we were considering extending our old house. We made an appointment to view and by the time we'd seen downstairs and the garden DH was saying that we didn't need to see any more as it was perfect. Needless to say, I did insist on us looking at the upstairs rooms.😁
In August, we'll have been here 18 years and we still exchange Christmas cards with the previous owners.
You do need to view your dream property before you put in an offer. Hope it lives up to your expectations! 🏡

Go and see it first

I obsessed over a house for weeks, it looked absolutely amazing...finally viewed it and it was actually awful 😂 couldn't believe how completely deceiving the pictures were

@latedecember1963 that's a lovely story, how wonderful

SIL offered on her house without viewing. She had seen other houses in the street though (all built at the same time) so she knew what the dimensions would be like, if not the condition. It needed updating and she was prepared to do that, so it wasn’t an issue. All those houses sold very quickly so she didn’t want to risk losing it when it came on the market.

Friend did the same thing but for different reasons - she bought a flat in the UK while she was living overseas so that she’d have somewhere to move into as soon as she returned. It turned out to be absolutely filthy, and whilst she won’t admit it, I suspect she wouldn’t have bought it if she’d known the state it was in. She wasn’t in love with it though; it was just a case of here’s a flat in the right location at the right price.

My friend is selling her house at the moment, it's more than £1m (which is a lot here) and yesterday had an offer for 10% under asking price from a buyer who has never seen it. They can't even have done a drive-by because it's not visible from the road. They'll have seen the brochure presumably on RightMove and just phoned the agent.
The agent suggested they make an appointment to view but apparently they're not interested in doing that until they know what "the real price is". My friend said that the list price is the real price, they're not open to offers so that's that. Weird .