Would you wonder about this

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readytosell · 22/04/2021 12:48

I'm just about to put my house on market contract signed and going on in couple of weeks.

House couple doors up has just gone on market as the old lady who lived there passed away and now the daughter is selling the house.

Would you raise an eyebrow about the neighbour in the middle? Clearly we both have valid reasons to move (me for work, the other for probate), and the houses are quite different size. It's just a timing thing.

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isseys4xmastinselcats · 22/04/2021 13:22

our street is all the same houses as the same builder built the whole estate in the 1940s and at the bottom of the road there are three for sale ( 2 bed semis) two next door but one to each other and one opposite and yesterday i said exaclty this wonder why suddenly 3 so close to each other for sale wonder if someone ooer has moved in

Mumdiva99 · 22/04/2021 13:43

i would ask the question. But your EA would have a valid reason. Probate isn't planned!!

Mumdiva99 · 22/04/2021 13:45

Sorry - should also add - it does happen that people/families move into houses, particularly new builds, at a certain stage of life - then often progress to next stage at similar times - so there can be multiple houses in the same place up for sale for the same reason at the same time.

BiBabbles · 22/04/2021 13:49

The house I'm buying is on a little road that had two other sold signs pretty close together -- it obviously didn't put me off, though I was curious enough to look up the other properties on Zoopla and I had already looked at the crime info for the area for potential concerns.

Uptoongirl · 22/04/2021 13:55

I see this quite often, I think sometimes a house goes on the market neighbours get a shock at how much they could potentially get and list theirs also. I would ask the agent but it wouldn't put me off viewing.

MelissaVonStressel · 22/04/2021 14:05

There's a row of houses near me which all seem to go on the market at the same time, then go back on again 2-3 years later. So they've either all got boards up or none of them have. It's odd to look at!

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readytosell · 22/04/2021 18:21

@MelissaVonStressel

That's really amusing

I guess as well with the market being so wild so your point @Uptoongirl makes a lot of sense. I certainly have been keeping a nosey eye on what my neighbours up the road sold for earlier in the year!

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mobear · 22/04/2021 19:10

I would ask but I wouldn't be worried if one house was probate.

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