To want to put an obscenely low offer in for my dream house

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I know I ABU but a girl can dream.

My absolute dream house is in right move, it's been there since November. I absolutely in no way and never will be able to afford it (£800K ).

My poor little house is worth around £150K.

Any chance an incredibly cheeky offer would go through because some millionaire likes that I had the balls to do it???

OP are you really the vendor of the ‘dream house’ trying to get some advertising? 😂

If the vendor really is reading, I hope she takes all these comments with a large pinch of salt.

Shitting over new builds one of the ways mumsnetters try to establish their superiority. It’s fucking tiresome.

Lots of people want new/newish houses as the market clearly demonstrates. I’ve no real idea if the house is over priced or not as I don’t know the area, but there’ll be a demand for this for sure.

It’s astoundingly obvious that this is a fake thread (prob hoping to be picked up by newspapers) to cause a ‘stir’ and get the house sold.

Or they work for the same EA as the other person also talking about a similar house in the same area on a different thread ?

@LaurieMarlow it isn't that it's a new build, new build detached 5-6 bedroom houses where I live in the south east are not priced as highly as that house!

If it's an exorbitant amount in the south east where we know the property market is a mess, I can only imagine how overpriced it is in a more sensible area.

gummy believe it or not, there are many pockets in the North where a house that is not part of a carbon copy development costs that sort of money. There's an individually designed 4 bed house with very little garden, just around the corner from me, up for 850k, and I'm in the northeast. My very local area has everything from 100k terraces, through 120k ex-LA semis, through 250k 1930s semis, through half million pound 5 bed newbuild on a development, to the 850k House.

Parts of Sheffield

I didn't think Sheffield had 850k houses

Do people who say this sort of thing realise how completely thick they sound?

It never occurred to me that this might be a fake thread. There are houses near me that cost that much and more.

What did intrigue me when I first read the thread was, where on earth can you buy a little house for £150k?

I don’t think it’s that nice OP. It’s big but is it really your “dream house”?

Sorry don’t mean to sound judgey, I’m actually trying to make you feel better about probably not being able to afford it (and actually don’t think it’s that nice)

The great thing about this is that you don’t need to ‘get it’. As you say, it’s not your dream - therefore it really doesn’t matter.

Yep very aware of that thanks @StillCoughingandLaughing 👍 But this is a thread on a forum where we're all entitled to air our opinions, whether or not they "matter". If nobody did that, 95% of Mumsnet wouldn't exist.

Do people who say this sort of thing realise how completely thick they sound?

To be fair, any time anyone posts anything about London or South East house prices, there is always a big chorus of people bragging about how they got a massive house up north for tuppence ha'penny and people darn sarf are mugs for paying the prices they do.

You'd be better off writing to famous people and begging for money to buy a house

What did intrigue me when I first read the thread was, where on earth can you buy a little house for £150k?

My house is worth around that. Drive an hour and you can get a house for £75,000 or less depending on condition.

We paid £140k for ours. 4 bed detached in a nice area. We’re in Yorkshire

@SweatyYFronts I’m curious as to where you live to have got a 4 bed detached for £140k in a “nice area”. Was it worth £140K or is your point that you got a good deal?

Gorgeous house OP ( and Starstar if you're both for real, very exciting and funny if you are!) My dh would love that house, if find it too grand but wow to the garden, the footie matches you could have!! OP, sorry, I don't think you c could ( torn though, would love to find out you'd got it!!!)

@AliceRR

Hull. Bought 6 years ago. They wanted £160 for it originally but knocked it down to £150k. We put in an offer of £140k and it was accepted.

£140k is a good deal for a 4 bed detached but I suppose it’s worth a bit more now and it depends where it is. I’m in Yorkshire too and just spend £300k on a 3 bed detached and that was a good deal for the house and area 🤷🏻‍♀️

OP you’ll be able to find a house you love within your budget if you keep looking but I don’t see anything wrong with a cheeky (maybe not deluded) offer. They can only say no!

Ewww there is not ONE thing I like about this house! It's ugly, characterless and the décor is not to my taste at all. I don't even like the windows, the stairs or the garden. And why would they choose those front gates with that wall?

My house is worth about £190,000 and I would not swap it for that ghastly thing in a million years.

This must be a joke - that house is horrible with a pathetic, boring, little garden. I wouldn't swap my 2 bed maisonette for that and my garden is a thousand times nicer. Have you been on the funny stuff?

Out of interest, what does mn consider a cheeky offer?
Going to view a house on Saturday and thinking of offering no more than 90% of the asking price... it is overpriced as well!

That house is horrible, OP.

I wouldn’t worry about the “poor seller”, I think something fishy is going on here

It’s always ‘interesting’ when the person under discussion magically arrives on the thread, just like the shopkeeper from Mr Benn

There are loads of these near me, hideous faux mansions squeezed into too small plots, but the postcode makes then £1 million plus!