We’ve been house hunting since January, we have a 6 month old baby and it’s really taking its toll. We’re trying to move into a very popular area so I’ve accepted it might take a while. There’s 2 main estate agents who seem to have the properties we like up however one of them seems a bit dodgy.
Most of the properties don’t go up online, they sell them off market, they do all the viewings themselves and I just get the feeling they’re a bit off. We’ve made offers over before but it’s never been enough, they seem to just push up the price, they regularly tell us what we need to offer to secure a house and it’s often way way over what we think it’s worth. I’m not convinced they are even putting our offers forward to the vendors if the agent doesn’t think it’s high enough. He’s told me before they market on an offer overs basis so the marketed price they always expect it to go over.
We have seen a house we absolutely love again off market, over priced but also at the absolute top of our budget. I guess I’m just asking if anyone has any advice on what to do? We can only offer the asking price and not over but I don’t think he’s going to put the offer forward to them.
I don’t think we’re ever going to find a house at this stage, we’ve lost buyers for our house once as we couldn’t find a house quick enough and now we have buyers again, worrying the same thing will happen.