Property/DIY
muppetgirl · 06/08/2007 19:13
All depends how desperate you are to sell. My brother was at the end of a chain and stood to make a rather large ammount of money from his house sale and the people below him were 'guzumped' by a £1000 so he reduced his price by that ammount in order to sell.
Others might not have done it but he made a large ammount....
I suppose it's a question of -can you afford to pay it?
Are you that desperate to sell?
HectorsHouse · 06/08/2007 19:36
may I ask what you feel the difference is between reducing your offer by that amount and asking them to pay stamp duty?
it is the same bottom line effect to the company selling, its not like they get a discount on the cost
now if you asked them for something they could do at lower than the cost to you then that's different .. like carpeting / decorating / repairs etc
muppetgirl · 06/08/2007 19:39
if you are asking them to pay the stamp duty is it because you don't have it?
When we negotiated with our house builders (new house) we went for price reduction and would again rather than carpets and curtains as you borrow less money...which, over 20/30 years is quite a lot.
scienceteacher · 06/08/2007 19:42
It sounds like a way of getting a price drop, without informing the mortgage company - ie buyers get a higher mortgage that they otherwise should.
The sensible thing would be to actually have a lower selling price, then the government, solicitors, estate agents, all get a lower cut.
WideWebWitch · 06/08/2007 19:45
I'd love someone to pay our stamp duty, we're thinking of buying in the next 6 months and it'll be a crippling amount.
3% is payable over £250k - presumably this is a property developer keen to shift a house?
I'm seeing developers offering this as a sign of a weakening market (hopeful emoticon as we want to buy and be in a buyer's market which it hasn't been for a LNG time)
LIZS · 06/08/2007 21:13
I'd consider dropping the price to rebate some of it but wouldn't overtly pay it. ie if someone really wanted to only spend 250k but price was 265k, I'd drop to fund the difference in Stamp Duty between the 2 prices, so on those figures it may be about 5k, effectively accepting an offer around £260 plus.
I suppose the difference is that by exchanging cash for Stamp Duty rather than reducign the price, the "full" price will still be registered , articifially sustaining future selling prices - important in a newbuild development with further phases to release.
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