@FelicityElectricity, @Newhousehope same here, 5 weeks under offer, 5 weekends of driving around viewing. Fingers crossed this weekend is the one. Because there are so many people under offer and little new on the market, anything decent goes hugely over asking. Like tens of k. Looking outside of London it’s the same, 3 or 4 family houses in a commutable town or village - they go for even more!
Sorry to hear about your husband’s redundancy @TheLette, you never know he could get a better, higher paid job.
@Didicat that is crazy about that £575k house! @mummabubs same, we were looking to sell/buy in January, took our time to decorate and prepare - then bang, pregnancy and lockdown. Didn’t feel right at the time to continue. Will cost us a lot. We could have bought a bigger house up the road last year, but now need to move out of area.
I don’t think the flyer thing would work @felicity, because people can’t see anything they’d want to move to. I’m looking at family homes where the vendors are usually downsizing to bungalows and I’m told the bungalow market is even tighter. I’ve had quite a viewings cancelled at short notice because vendor has decided to come off market, they can’t find the specific thing they want (and I totally understand why they wouldn’t want to shift from their lovely family home to something less decent if they don’t need to!).
The market is weird though, I just said up-post I couldn’t afford on my road but one has just been reduced by £50k. But by now we’ve done done our commute and budget calcs and DH has seen the bigger gardens and wants that for DC. Initially he wanted to go closer into London and reduce commute time, on the reasoning he could be home more!
Ah gutted @tryingtocatchthewind, it’s not the dream house, it was a frog on the way! The horror stories on here have really put me off compromising on a house, or as our EA called it, “desperate house buying”. Really hard not to, given we have to upsize. We constantly trip up over baby stuff.