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What would you offer?

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lemondrop72 · 10/05/2022 20:15

We're going to view a house on Saturday but we already have a good feeling we're going to love it.

It was taken off the market after a day as requested by the vendor because they were inundated with interest. The estate agent has said there are 19 viewings on Saturday 😳 we are selling with the same agent so she did say she can't obviously tell us any figures of other offers but can tell us how many after Saturday.

The Rightmove listing said "Guide price £325,000" and in the description it said said "Offers in the region of 325-350"

Should we stay within that range? Slightly higher? Our budget is slightly more than the top end but of course we don't want to pay way more than it's worth.

It needs modernising so there is room to add value but we'd ideally be there while dc are in school so no plans to do it up just to sell.

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RedRum27 · 19/05/2022 18:39

We just lost out again today…went 20k over asking again. Feel like we’re doing it all wrong. The vendor went with an offer straight away and didn’t have best and final. We upped it though enough for them to reconsider and they rejected it again. Heard about 30 mins ago :-( I wonder if we’ll have to go in at our absolute best every time.

eatyourveg · 19/05/2022 20:12

I don't like guide prices at all. We are about to put our place on the market and the EA has suggested a guide price with a £50K difference between the bottom and top figure. Is the middle figure the most accurate? All the valuations we had were guide prices and all in the same region. Really annoying as a buyer but also as a seller when looking for another place as we don't actually know what our budget is likely to be.

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lemondrop72 · 19/05/2022 21:28

eatyourveg · 19/05/2022 20:12

I don't like guide prices at all. We are about to put our place on the market and the EA has suggested a guide price with a £50K difference between the bottom and top figure. Is the middle figure the most accurate? All the valuations we had were guide prices and all in the same region. Really annoying as a buyer but also as a seller when looking for another place as we don't actually know what our budget is likely to be.

Ours was a guide too. EA said bottom figure was the valuation but could achieve anything up to the top figure.
But as things are, houses seem to be selling for way over the top of the guide!

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LadyEloise1 · 19/05/2022 21:29

@lemondrop72 I'm sorry you didn't get it. 🤞 something nicer comes up soon.

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lemondrop72 · 19/05/2022 21:29

RedRum27 · 19/05/2022 18:39

We just lost out again today…went 20k over asking again. Feel like we’re doing it all wrong. The vendor went with an offer straight away and didn’t have best and final. We upped it though enough for them to reconsider and they rejected it again. Heard about 30 mins ago :-( I wonder if we’ll have to go in at our absolute best every time.

Sorry you've lost out!
I read an article in the telegraph strongly advising people not to mortgage to their absolute limit due to the current chaos with inflation etc

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lemondrop72 · 19/05/2022 21:34

LadyEloise1 · 19/05/2022 21:29

@lemondrop72 I'm sorry you didn't get it. 🤞 something nicer comes up soon.

Thank you!

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RedRum27 · 19/05/2022 21:56

@lemondrop72 same to you too, I hope something comes up again soon…fingers crossed. Everything seems a tad chaotic doesn’t it, can’t keep up :-)

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