What should I offer

[BeauticianNotMagician81]

We've finally sold again after our buyer pulled out on what was supposed to be the day of exchange. We've found the perfect house but don't know what to offer. It's a part exchange so owned by the builders on at £310,000. Single garage, small garden, poor quality carpets put in when first bought (they are clean but rubbish underlay). 3 double bedrooms, 1 slightly bigger than average single bedroom and 1 box room. However, across the road is a bigger house, same amount of bedrooms but all double, bigger garden, huge drive for at least 4 cars and double garage. Due to circumstances they would accept £300,000 but we prefer the part exchange house as the bigger one would need a bit of work (new carpets, decorating) which is difficult with four dc about. I don't want to be too cheeky but I don't want to pay over the odds either.

Well both need new carpets, so seems insane to go for th smaller one, decorating can be done as and when.

The builders can afford to hold onto the little one, and part of the cost will be covering any losses from part exchange,

£295 on the part exchange but I'd go for the bigger house if it only needs carpets and decorating.

The bigger one is top heavy so has a smaller downstairs. Very small lounge and would just about fit a table in the kitchen/diner. The other one has a huge kitchen diner. Downstairs space is more important to us as obviously that's where we spend more time. The problem with the bigger one is that the carpets are soaked in urine (long sad story) so we would need to replace them immediately with little ones and we don't have anywhere to stay while they are being done. The carpet fitter we use said it will take about 3 days to do all the flooring, including bathrooms, kitchen, utility. The other house has thin carpets but we can live with those for a while and get them replaced over time.

You don’t sound like you like the bigger one. Offer 290 see what happens

@lastqueenofscotland no I'm not so keen. It's grander from the outside but the downstairs space is disappointing and we don't really want to take on another house that needs work. Thanks that's what we were thinking £290,000