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Please tell me more houses will come onto the market in the next few weeks!

143 replies

Lolly567 · 01/09/2018 10:14

Just been obsessively checking Rightmove every hour for pretty much the past six weeks and getting a bit frustrated! I really hope it’s true people wait till September to list their houses!

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Alexalee · 03/10/2018 11:54

If you used htb in London in 2013 or 2014 you probably got those huge rises and will be fine. 2015 onwards are going to struggle
To be honest it is the most ridiculous scheme ever, basically paying 40% more than you can afford for a house... What could possibly go wrong

eggofmantumbi · 03/10/2018 12:02

@peachy we've had 1 so far (and one placed at the weekend) and one with the old agent. Already reduced 10k when we switched agent.....
We'd take another 10k off but then we'd have to get along price.....

Lilmisskittykat · 03/10/2018 21:20

Nothing much my end - north west - just put a bid in on a house to be told our offer (-3%) isn't good enough and there is already an offer on the table that they aren't taking a decision on until they've shown two more first time buyers at the weekend...

I wouldn't mind so much but my husband is in different about the house anyway - there is just nothing else out there... so I'm in a bidding war for a house that is a settle for house cause there is nothing else out there 🙄

I just want off this house buying train so badly - cannot believe I was looking forward to this bit !

eggofmantumbi · 03/10/2018 21:35

@lilmisskittykat of you're in the NW have mine! 😂

Lilmisskittykat · 03/10/2018 22:20

@eggofmantumbi now if you were my area and budget that would be grand 😂

eggofmantumbi · 04/10/2018 13:43

Well we are NW, but that's a big area! We're Wirral and it just seems to be slow at the moment.

andywarhol · 04/10/2018 14:07

I'm looking in the the SW (Bristol). Totally dead.

Berimbolo · 04/10/2018 14:41

It's so frustrating house hunting. I remember a time I couldn't wait to go and now I'm fed up with looking.
Same old houses on rightmove etc, pricing clearly an issue now and people I've spoke to don't want to take a risk now in case prices drop and they've overpaid, or land themselves with a huge mortgage and have employment issues come next March.

Kernowgal · 04/10/2018 22:06

It's picked up a little bit here, although I am looking in a limited part of a particular town; more has come on outside of my search area but I don't want to live there. Viewed a house last week that I'd had an eye on for months - it was reduced by 5k so I thought why not (I'm not on the market yet), but it was tiny compared with my current place. Too much of a compromise and needed lots of work.

Things aren't shifting in my village unless they're priced competitively or are suitable for a family.

MrsReacher1 · 07/10/2018 19:45

"Stubborn" buyers are just doing what makes the most financial and practical sense for them - just as "stubborn" buyers who won't pay near the asking price for something they love are. We are all just trying to do what is best for us.

The market is not great - I'm a seller and may pull out as my buyers have been difficult and are treating me as if I have asked a fortune for a shit house, (my home). That though will mean I will have to pull out of my own purchase. That makes me a horrible buyer too. Can't win.

MrsReacher1 · 07/10/2018 19:47

Sorry - stubborn sellers - are doing what is best for them. Sorry - exhausted by the whole thing!

peachypetite · 20/10/2018 07:28

Delighted to say we've finally got rid of our house. It was extremely stressful in the end, long story but unreasonable and demanding buyer. We've moved in with family since it took us a while to find anywhere we wanted to offer on. Hoping to be in soon, everything is moving very quickly.

Lilmisskittykat · 20/10/2018 08:49

@peachypetite that's great! Hope you have more success then me - I did the same and a year and half later still with my parents 🙈

Market is crap at the moment still! Need better houses to come but think this is it til next year now

peachypetite · 20/10/2018 09:11

It's actually been the best thing we could have done. We made a cheeky offer on a house that was out of our budget and to our shock had it accepted. This is because we are such strong buyers. Will be worth the short term pain of living at home haha. I do get on well with my parents it's just a bit strange. You must have been able to save loads?

Tobermory · 21/10/2018 08:52

This is exactly the thread I need right now.
What do you think the likelihood of a flurry of new properties coming onto the market in the next month or so?
Currently in rented; we sold our house but our purchase fell through. We’ve looked at the only things on the market but for a variety of reasons they’re not right

LBOCS2 · 21/10/2018 10:36

Our IFA (who we're friends with) reckons that there will be more on and people more prepared to take a silly offer in Jan - there's always an upswing in the new year and everyone will want to shift ahead of Brexit.

I'm basically watching a load of houses which are just outside our price range in the hope that they'll drop them and we can get a silly offer on them.

peachypetite · 06/11/2018 12:26

How is everyone? We are hoping to complete in about a month wooooo!

Berimbolo · 06/11/2018 13:24

We found a house, survey done, mortgage approved all going perfectly apart from discovering a boundary issue so we're just waiting for deeds and other docs to confirm it but we're going to have to walk away. We can't afford to get into a dispute.
It's gutting

peachypetite · 06/11/2018 13:29

Oh no! Can't anything be done?

Berimbolo · 06/11/2018 13:53

I'm not sure really. DH and I have only lived in apartments so this is quite worrying. I started a thread on here about it and the advice here and in garden law is to walk away. I honestly had no idea what people go through on things like this. Our solicitor wants to have all the evidence to then put to the seller. We also found out the seller is the estate agents son which they didn't tell us. I'm in the SE where the market is so strange we just don't know what to do anymore

slappinthebass · 06/11/2018 14:51

Years ago the advice was to wait. My mum was planning to put her house on the market in January, but the Estate Agents told her the market is good now and it's not true you should wait. In fact there's often a lack of available property because people are waiting.

Kernowgal · 06/11/2018 20:32

I've had a couple of agents round this week and they've both said to crack on with marketing my house now, rather than waiting till the spring. Both said they were pretty busy with instructions and they didn't think that Brexit would have too much of an effect on the bottom end of the market.

There's now nothing else comparable in my village (everything has sold) so I might as well just give it a go.

peachypetite · 28/11/2018 14:50

How's everyone? We have exchanged and completing on Friday!! I cannot wait to be free!

EdisonLightBulb · 28/11/2018 17:10

Can I join the thread? we've lived in our house for 18 happy years so although I am a Rightmove junkie nosey cow I haven't been through a house purchase for many years.

DS is now buying his first and leaning on me to help him through the process. As I WFH I see houses as soon as they are listed, but we are disillusioned too and can echo the same here in West Yorkshire.

Nothing new coming up for FTB at the moment, but the estate agent we saw last week said they will all come up after Christmas.

Saw a lovely little bungalow cottage (lots of work needed but no major structural stuff) last week, been up a few months with no interest. Others on the street sold earlier this year for 30k less and had additional dormer bedrooms too. Vendors won't drop a ha'penny, because they want more than it was bought for (at the peak) in 2007.

It doesn't matter that the house now reeks of tobacco, the walls are yellow and the kitchen dropping to bits. Interestingly enough, it is an inheritance house AND the vendor wants 20k more than the EA valued it at.

We have no chance with sellers like this do we?

Berimbolo · 28/11/2018 21:26

DH and I feel deflated. Same houses on rightmove, still very high prices here but the market is changing I think. Getting so many calls from estate agents that have never previously bothered so makes me wonder why.

Edison (I don't know how to tag on here), we've found the most difficult people are those selling deceased relatives houses. We try to avoid them now if possible