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Just sold - nothing to buy ...

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PanickedBuyer · 20/10/2020 12:53

Hello All,

Just in a bit of a flap as having sold a week ago, I can’t find anything to buy ... I looked in winter before around 2009-10 and remember very little going on

What to do? Should I ring around all the estate agents or would that put me in a bad negotiating position? Wondering if I should just view loads so that agents know I’m looking?

Any encouraging tales of the right property coming on/that you are just looking to market will soothe my ravaged nerves... I’m looking to move up to a 3 bed and worried that everyone who has one to sell this year already has. There’s a few under offer on my area, mostly went on in August (ones before that are now fully sold I think). Started looking in July but hadn’t sold, missed out on 1 good one so far, and regretting not viewing some others before I had sold..

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Catycity · 21/10/2020 00:42

@PanickedBuyer

You mean the 1st or 2nd is out of this world?

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PanickedBuyer · 21/10/2020 00:44

The 2nd one has featured in my evening

I do actually like it in some ways, but I’m not sure I stretch to a round bed :)

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CatAndHisKit · 21/10/2020 00:45

the video isn't there anymore! from photos can't see at all what's unusual?

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PanickedBuyer · 21/10/2020 00:45

So this one - it’s AMAAAZING

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-97892108.html

I kind of love it, but garden is a bit tiny

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CatAndHisKit · 21/10/2020 00:46

ah right you mean the 2d one! Yes like chalk and cheese - very bland vs very quirky.

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PanickedBuyer · 21/10/2020 00:47

And, just to prove your point about discounting, I’d only seem the patches of grass around the ‘round bit’ but it has a bigger garden in pic 13 which I hadn’t noticed

Thank you for sharing this link :)

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Catycity · 21/10/2020 00:49

@PanickedBuyer

Yeah I imagine it is a rare find in the area.

Maybe view it? Garden might not be so bad? Looks big enough for barbecue, sitting outside, entertaining, drying clothes etc. Not great if you have kids, but there's a bit of garden area to play in and parks for that.

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PanickedBuyer · 21/10/2020 00:51

@CatAndHisKit

ah right you mean the 2d one! Yes like chalk and cheese - very bland vs very quirky.

Yes - I like quirky , and although I’m not sure if this house is for me (might do a drive by) I’m very sure Miguel is a baaaad aaasss

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Catycity · 21/10/2020 00:52

@PanickedBuyer

Slide 13 shows a decent sized garden with a shed from the looks of it.

Worth a viewing imo. Only thing is that it looks like leasehold not freehold but 968 year lease so should be fine.

It's all modernised too.

Oranges555 · 21/10/2020 08:42

@CatAndHisKit the 2 we viewed we got given very good below market prices (most vendors will knock of the EA fees they would have had to pay and just don’t want the hassle of it all). I did my research on that road on Rightmove first so I knew what figure in my mind I wanted to pay. They may think you are desperate so give you an original higher price, I politely declined and said ‘oh that was more than we were thinking but thank you so much for responding to our note, we’ve been overwhelmed with responses I’m suprised it has worked so well, good luck with selling your lovely home’ and they would then give me a more sensible price once they knew we had other offers/werent desperate. One couple had it valued by an EA before we viewed to give them a rough guide price on what to offer it to us at. Plus point is I’ve remained in constant communication with the man we are buying off now, which has really helped with solicitor niggles/pushing them from both sides!

AntiHop · 21/10/2020 08:58

Definitely call estate agents. When we had buyers in place, estate agents showed us places before they were on right move.

SunnyUpNorth · 21/10/2020 09:22

Call estate agents but also look on rightmove at any that are under offer and register your interest with the estate agent for should they fall through. A lot of people have possibly placed panic offers due to the stamp duty holiday, and also personal circumstances are changing all the time, the mortgage lenders are being strict etc. So I imagine a lot of properties currently under offer will fall through.

We bought our house as it was under offer but I rang up to register our interest. Turns out the buyers buyer had pulled out and the vendor had been waiting patiently for a while but the buyer had become unproceedable so they let us view it and accepted our offer.

I don’t agree with wasting time by viewing things you would never consider but I do think it’s worth viewing some things that you aren’t sure of. We bought our previous property as we had booked a viewing to see another property on that road and the agent talked us into viewing the one we ended up buying aswell. It looked terrible on the photos. Sometimes things look amazing on the pictures and then is smaller, gloomier etc in real life but this can happen in reverse too. So it’s worth giving some places a chance.

BrowncoatWaffles · 21/10/2020 13:00

I am so in love with the quirky Hillingdon house.

Also as a side point I love the idea of having wooden boxes for fruit attached to the wall in the kitchen instead of a fruit bowl.

Of course with stairs like that I might as well throw the DC down them and break all their limbs now to save time.

It's just a gorgeous house though! Are you viewing it OP?

Notemyname · 21/10/2020 13:16

Call estate agents, we were in a similar situation recently. As I was on the phone to one agent he told me about a house he had been about to press the button to put it onto rightmove. It was perfect, next door to a house we'd been outbid on a few weeks earlier. We were first in the door to view an hour later and had our (asking price ) offer accepted same day. Houses are moving so fast with lots of competition from buyers where we are, it pays to make a nuisance of yourself.

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PanickedBuyer · 21/10/2020 23:08

Hello @BrowncoatWaffles: I like the character but the spiral staircase wouldn’t work for me

I saw a very quirky little place today which I’m putting an offer in on tomorrow morning so fingers crossed!

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PanickedBuyer · 21/10/2020 23:12

There is SO MUCH competition in my original area (on tube) that I can’t view before things go STC

@SunnyUpNorth, @Notemyname : thank you, I think I will call agents in the ‘old’ area so I can be viewing (one called today to say I was on their hotlist now .... after house I was booked on for has gone under offer) - I think I need to keep an eye open still as not sure if my offer would be accepted/chains fall apart...

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CatAndHisKit · 22/10/2020 00:51

thank you, Oranges, I'll take it on board and may well try.
The area i'm lookng in is now in tier 3 restrictions, in a way maybe that may work even better in terns of sellers not wanting viewings - but otoh it's probably against the rules to be showing anyone around...no idea though.

InescapableDeath · 22/10/2020 12:07

Sounds like you have a few areas to choose from so you WILL get there. I have woken up more positive today. Saw a house that went under SSTC has come back on which could be interesting for us. It will work out! (probably/maybe etc)

WhereOnEarthDoIStart · 25/10/2020 08:34

Have you found yet?

We offered on three places but got outbid. We were too low and two slow.

There's now another couple of places we like - Come Monday we are going to offer asking on both. I still don't think we'll get them. People are offering crazy money it seems.

DespairingHomeowner · 25/10/2020 09:24

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PanickedBuyer · 25/10/2020 09:54

My update on my search is that I’m feeling totally confused!

One bit of clarity is that I definitely want to sell my current place (neighbours had loads of people over. carousing last night ... noisy and we are in tier 2 [hmmm])

I did a second viewing of the one house I’m really drawn to... still love it, but it’s about 40 min drive from London: so would be cut me off from my social life. Its also small : could not extend to add value etc. Has a bit of damp too, worried about that as current owners conscientious so maybe it’s impossible to get rid of?

I also feel like it’s the property for me in 5-10 years but not just now (owners are selling up to retire so it’s that kind of place)

I drove past 2 others that look good on Rightmove: awful in person so that helps ... And a ‘renovated’ house with no boiler/central heating so that’s a no

I’m definitely guilty of looking for perfection so that may not be helping me!

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InescapableDeath · 25/10/2020 18:48

Damp is one of those things that really puts me off. I'd rather know I had to pull out a bathroom than deal with damp, but we all have our own limits.

Thankfully we have found somewhere now. A seller with a house above our limits suddenly offered it to us at a much lower price (closer to actual value!). She's flakey so it may not happen but it's worth a gamble for us. It definitely needs work, but no damp thankfully.

WhereOnEarthDoIStart · 26/10/2020 17:02

We just had an offer on a house accepted today!!!!

Looks like we are on the way now!! It's a lovely house - it's got everything we need and most of what we want.

Fingers crossed it works out. The vendor has just put an offer elsewhere and needs to be accepted.

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PanickedBuyer · 26/10/2020 17:10

@WhereOnEarthDoIStart: Hooray! hope all goes smoothly :)

@Notemyname, @SunnyUpNorth: I rang round agents today as you suggested. The one I lost out on a house with recently has contacted me about one they have just valued (so its a win for them as they can show they have waiting buyers...)

They did say they were listing at 525 but now owner will take 500 though - I do think the main winners in this game are agents rather than any of us!

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