Page 18 | Thread 2: "Anyone not being picky - and STILL can't find anything?"

RidingMyBike · 10/02/2022 20:58

Judging by the market around here, they sell within days of going on the market (assuming habitable, somewhere people want to live etc -
There are a few that aren't shifting at all!), then most EA have said expect 3-4 months for the actual conveyancing to happen.

EmmaH2022 · 10/02/2022 22:04

Anyone got a spare £50k?

Want to spend it on a cupboard?

www.mylondon.news/news/property/londons-smallest-flat-up-sale-23002109

EmmaH2022 · 10/02/2022 22:06

[quote EmmaH2022]Anyone got a spare £50k?

Want to spend it on a cupboard?

www.mylondon.news/news/property/londons-smallest-flat-up-sale-23002109[/quote]
More info

Reports of a separate shower are wildly exaggerated

onlineauctions.my-auction.co.uk/lot/details/59780

J417 · 11/02/2022 07:44

@Eastie77Returns

My solicitor has asked me to transfer my deposit to their account. However there are still two open enquiries - they are the easiest of the 12 enquires for the vendor to answer so why it is taking so long is anyone’s guess - and no confirmation from the vendors solicitor that an exchange in a couple of weeks is feasible. She has apparently not responded to any emails or calls this week from my solicitor or the EA. Infuriating.

JV17 try not to dwell on what might have been (easier said then done, I know!) and focus on what’s ahead. Annoying that your vendor is taking so long to instruct a solicitor but fingers crossed this is sorted out soon. My vendor had a solicitor who for reasons unknown passed her on to another solicitor (as in a completely different firm) and this caused weeks of delay.

@Eastie77Returns

Thank you. My rational self is trying not to dwell on.
but my body is collapsing under the stress though.

I got a referral from GP to see a psychologist. Hope that will help me bring me out of the hole

I am glad I found this forum as well as I don't know it is so challenging about the process

RidingMyBike · 11/02/2022 08:31

Hmm, one that went SSTC in about Oct/Nov has reappeared on the market. Now apparently empty and no onward chain.

Too far out for us but interesting to see it reappear.

Doubleraspberry · 11/02/2022 10:07

@RidingMyBike

Hmm, one that went SSTC in about Oct/Nov has reappeared on the market. Now apparently empty and no onward chain.

Too far out for us but interesting to see it reappear.

Curious!

Just been talking to a school mum who bought three years ago and listening to her talk about viewing houses and making a decision between them. It feels like very far ago times.

We've had our house valued and it's way more than I expected. I'm also being told that my area is now part of the madness, as long as I don't overprice. By the same agents who I think are overpricing the house. I so hate all this. Every time I've sold I've made the wrong choice of agents first time round! I doubt my own judgement.

dubyalass · 11/02/2022 12:40

Put my offer in for my viewing this morning. They've got more viewings booked next week so I should find out by the end of the week, but apparently I'm in a better position than the others who are viewing it today, they all have chains.

EmmaH2022 · 11/02/2022 12:43

@dubyalass

Put my offer in for my viewing this morning. They've got more viewings booked next week so I should find out by the end of the week, but apparently I'm in a better position than the others who are viewing it today, they all have chains.

So you have to wait till end of next week?

dubyalass · 11/02/2022 12:56

Maybe sooner but it's a probate sale so it may involve several family members. I'm not in any hurry.

Doubleraspberry · 11/02/2022 12:56

Fingers crossed...

dubyalass · 11/02/2022 14:09

🤞🤞🤞

Eastie77Returns · 11/02/2022 14:43

Fingers crossed for you dubyalass

So we now have exchange and complete dates agreed on after the vendors onward purchase EA proposed a date everyone is happy with. But (there is always a but) my vendor is insisting she can only physically move the day after we complete so wants to stay in the house on the day we complete and move her stuff throughout the following day. I’ve said no. Apart from anything else, she has a family member moving her in a small van over 40 miles away and there is no way it will be done in a day.

Her EA has said he has a potential plan B so I said he needs to go with that but whatever it is cannot involve the vendor staying in the house post completion

dubyalass · 11/02/2022 15:56

Eastie you have the patience of a saint.

EmmaH2022 · 11/02/2022 17:13

@dubyalass

Eastie you have the patience of a saint.

So did my sister I told her to pull out three times when her move took nearly a year

It was fine
Thank god she ignored me!

I just asked an agent to take me off their mailing list for a third time
Let's hope they don't take against me if I need to look again...

RidingMyBike · 13/02/2022 15:33

Another one that SSTC around Oct/Nov has reappeared on market. I feel sad because it means somebody's sale has fallen thru, maybe a bad survey, over-ambitious pricing or something?

There's been more of a flurry of houses too small and far out for us appearing. And EA got in touch about a 'barn conversion in an idyllic rural location' which meets our criteria. No it doesn't, we specified walking distance to DD's school, not 7.5 miles away!

oopsIdiditagaintoo · 13/02/2022 15:39

@RidingMyBike

Hmm, one that went SSTC in about Oct/Nov has reappeared on the market. Now apparently empty and no onward chain.

Too far out for us but interesting to see it reappear.

There's a few of these in my "hot" area of Manchester.

Plus 36 houses in my price range have been added in the last 2 weeks. All really highly priced, wonder if they'll still sell at the high prices, now that it looks like buyers aren't all fighting over 5 houses (as they were at the end of last year)?

Eastie77Returns · 13/02/2022 16:58

I wonder if houses that were previously STC and are now reappearing is the result of nervous buyers or sellers pulling out due to the cost of living crisis.

I’m personally concerned about energy prices. My gas and electricity bills have always been low as I lived in a well insulated small flat but I’m now buying a property with an EPC grade D and very poor insulation. There was actually an article in the Guardian about fuel poor people freezing in 1930 semi detached houses in London and of course I’m buying a..1930s semi detached in London!

EmmaH2022 · 13/02/2022 17:59

Two EAs have said to me there's issues with mortgage companies and over valuations.

veevee04 · 13/02/2022 19:01

We have given up looking at when DD is in year 6 to move ready for secondary. I can't take the boom anymore wish we would have bought in 2019 when there was more choice. I'm not willing to buy a rubbish house because of lack of choice.

Nosnogginginthekitchen · 13/02/2022 19:04

Just starting this journey. House went on the market on Friday, now to find something we want to buy. There seems to be one agent pushing the prices up above what the barrier can realistically support in the town we were thinking of, so we've decided to go back to the drawing board and consider other areas. I've been in tears on and off all day because the cognitive load and and overwhelm are just so big.

EmmaH2022 · 13/02/2022 20:33

@Nosnogginginthekitchen

Just starting this journey. House went on the market on Friday, now to find something we want to buy. There seems to be one agent pushing the prices up above what the barrier can realistically support in the town we were thinking of, so we've decided to go back to the drawing board and consider other areas. I've been in tears on and off all day because the cognitive load and and overwhelm are just so big.

Oh dear

Time for lists! What's the reason for moving, what are the dealbreakers etc.

EmmaH2022 · 13/02/2022 22:25

You know you're touchy about something when you get the rage from a tiny comment...

Someone I last spoke to at Xmas asked me "are you still in your flat". Um...yes? How could I have moved in that time frame, I'd only just started looking! Should have kept gob shut.

areyouhavingagiraffe · 14/02/2022 09:13

@EmmaH2022, I know how you feel. I am STILL at my parents, having sold my flat, and STILL haven't found a house.
Looked at e-mails this morning, e-mail from an EA, a four bed house for offers over £800k....WTF. In late December, houses like this were on for £550k+.....has there been a £250K increase in six weeks?
In others news, the 3 bed I saw last week (offers over £625K), the EA admitted it was overpriced and would not sell for that.
Guys, I am just so distraight now. I have nightmares about a 3 bed house being over £1 million by Spring....I have lost all rational thoughts, could this happen?! Someone talk some sense into me.

Thethreeofusandpooch · 14/02/2022 09:35

[quote areyouhavingagiraffe]@EmmaH2022, I know how you feel. I am STILL at my parents, having sold my flat, and STILL haven't found a house.
Looked at e-mails this morning, e-mail from an EA, a four bed house for offers over £800k....WTF. In late December, houses like this were on for £550k+.....has there been a £250K increase in six weeks?
In others news, the 3 bed I saw last week (offers over £625K), the EA admitted it was overpriced and would not sell for that.
Guys, I am just so distraight now. I have nightmares about a 3 bed house being over £1 million by Spring....I have lost all rational thoughts, could this happen?! Someone talk some sense into me.[/quote]
I don’t think they’ll be over a million by then! We had our offer accepted on a 3 bed Victorian semi for £675k a month ago. Since having our offer accepted we have moved like lighting speed - everyone else in the still incomplete chain is being very slow! We are dreading it all collapsing as we’ll have to look again and we sincerely hope 3 beds don’t go above £700k otherwise we’ll be priced out.

Doubleraspberry · 14/02/2022 09:38

[quote areyouhavingagiraffe]@EmmaH2022, I know how you feel. I am STILL at my parents, having sold my flat, and STILL haven't found a house.
Looked at e-mails this morning, e-mail from an EA, a four bed house for offers over £800k....WTF. In late December, houses like this were on for £550k+.....has there been a £250K increase in six weeks?
In others news, the 3 bed I saw last week (offers over £625K), the EA admitted it was overpriced and would not sell for that.
Guys, I am just so distraight now. I have nightmares about a 3 bed house being over £1 million by Spring....I have lost all rational thoughts, could this happen?! Someone talk some sense into me.[/quote]
People can put them on for any price, and the problem is that once one person does, estate agents then start following the crowd. The agents who are valuing my house talked about ‘stretch pricing’. But no one needs to buy them at that price, and you’ll see sales collapsing left, right and centre if surveyors aren’t willing to support the nonsense.

If the local market could support them at that price, they’d already cost it.

Round here is supposedly one of the fastest growing housing markets and we’re not seeing increases like that.