House put on the market for £355k
No viewings. Dropped to £345k within 2 weeks.
Still on the market 3 month later.
We view, needs a small amount of work, we offer £320k. Declined, saying it’s too low.
We book a second viewing to really assess the works, go over our own finances. We offer £325k.
They decline. They say they want £335k.
We up our offer to £330k. They decline, they say they want £335k. We walk away.
We view another house, but it doesn’t compare. We offer again but this time the £335k.
They say they want to think about it over New Year, they have family coming over etc.
We wait 3 days. We ring this morning, the EA say they can’t get in touch with the vendor but they’ve left voicemails, saying they’re back at work so it’s hard to get hold of them. We get a call back at lunch to say they still haven’t got in touch with them but they’ve just had an offer from a viewer that viewed a while ago. Apparently they had a house to sell and they’ve just sold and tried to get in touch while the office was closed over New Years. The offer is higher than ours. Do we want to up our bid? We told them no. We’re not prepared to go any higher. Now the EA has gone out to an appointment (2 hours ago) so we’re left in limbo still.
Is it usually like this?! It’s a bit random they’ve suddenly got another offer in while they ‘think’ about ours. The property has now been up for almost 4 months. Not one offer previous, except ours and they’ve had 9 viewings in total (2 of them were us). They said £335k twice to us over a two week period so what could they possibly have to think about once we meet that figure.
If someone has offered more, fair enough, we lose out, but at least put us out of our misery!