My OH and I are in Brighton, expecting our first baby, and trying to buy a little house but the market is ACTUALLY INSANE. We've offered on three houses, and two went for over our already over asking price offers, and the third, although we offered over asking price, the owner decided he doesn't want to sell after all. It seems like half of the houses I call up about from Rightmove have either already sold, or the owner has decided not to sell after all.
In this kind of wildly overheated market is it even worth trying leafleting? We get several estate agent letters through the door of our flat every week looking for property to sell, surely everyone knows that they can sell if they want to?
And how do we deal with not wasting people's time with looking at houses that are more than we can afford if we do it? Do we just lay out how much we can pay?
There's no way to tell how much houses are going to be worth from outside and we're looking at a pretty big area. And although we have finance in place and are very flexible because we're renting, we are still looking at the bottom end of the market. And there are cash buyers hovering like vultures over anything affordable... I hate the thought of falling in love with a house we can't actually afford.
Relatedly, does anyone in Brighton want to sell us their cheap 2 bed house? 