This time tomorrow we'll know either way

[SleeplessNightAhead]

Been looking for a new house for a while without much success. 3 bed family homes don't come on the market often at the moment. We found one we loved at the beginning of the year and, although it wasn't perfect, it had great potential. Although we were the highest bidders (Scotland), we lost out to a cash buyer ☹️

Viewed another a few weeks later that fit the bill, however, the sellers accepted a 24hr offer before we got the chance to put one in!

Last week we went to view one a bit further away and REALLY liked it. Only problem is, so do loads of other people. It had tonnes of viewings and went to closing within a week of being on the market. The closing date is tomorrow and there are 13 notes of interest 🤯

Our solicitor advised us to offer a significant sum over the home report value if we wanted to be in with a chance so that's what we've done. Closing is 12noon so we should find out not long after whether or not we've been successful 🫣

Wish me luck 🤞🏼

Good luck, fingers crossed for you.

Thank you!!! I'm nervous/excited. Will be SO disappointed if we don't get it.

Good luck 👍😃🤞

I think you are going to get it.

Good luck. If you’ve offered significantly over you can’t do much more. If you don’t win someone else will have beaten you with a ridiculous offer that might be more than the house is worth. Fingers crossed for you

Good luck!

Good luck

Thanks everyone ☺️ I'll be on tenterhooks and constantly staring at my phone until we receive the call. I will update here with the outcome incase anyone's interested (I hate when the OP doesn't share the outcome in situations like these) 👃😂

Aww I hope you get good news tomorrow 🤞

Wishing you good news tomorrow.

Hope you get it. The housing market in Ireland is mental right now too what ever is going on!

Fingers crossed.

I have everything crossed for you.

We recently moved - although England not Scotland - and it was genuinely one of the most stressful times of my life. Just awful.

Good Luck!

Good luck OP, this was me last year (also Scotland so know the whole closing date pain) .. and after three failed bids, I'm now in my dream home. Will be rooting for you tomorrow

Good luck

Any word yet?

Fingers crossed. 🙏

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Hi All,

Thanks for the good luck vibes. We've just heard from our solicitor the we were unsuccessful 😭

We offered 17% over home report value and were the second highest bidders out of 25.....TWENTY FIVE!!!!!

Very disappointed 😞 nothing else on the market at the moment so it's just a waiting game.

Aw that's so disappointing.

That’s really disappointing - whereabouts in Scotland are you looking and are you willing to move

I love searching for homes and would happily help you look.

Oh no ! You never know they may pull out or end up not being able to afford it and your next on the list

Oh I’m so very sorry. I was also just about to say that you should be clear you still love the house and position yourself as first reserve. You never can tell with house buying.
what an arse though. Over 17% over asking. It’s a horrible process.

I'm sorry. I can imagine how gutted you feel.

Sorry you missed out. We had this last year when buying our property. There’s an average of 6 buyers for every house on the market and obviously twice that if it’s a super property. We were up against 12 other bidders and in the end decided to go to our absolute maximum budget, rather than +15% or +£25,000 etc. this was on the basis that it was perfect for us and we didn’t want to lose out. Our reasoning was that if we bid our maximum and lost out, well, there was nothing more we could’ve done. We would’ve been gutted to lose out by £10k for example. We’re still happy with what we paid. We are planning to be here for the next 20 years, so long term we won’t lose anything.