Buyer wants a second viewing 3 months after offer accepted.

[tackytriceratops]

I know no one will be able to shed any really light - I always thought it was odd the buyer bought without a second viewing! Just wondered if any insights

We accepted offer at the end of July. They are renting and have been looking for a house in this area- houses go v quickly due to school system here. Searches only started in sept and take weeks. They haven’t wanted to do a survey (yet). Highly likely that they’d like our house in order to get into a specific school.

unfortunately there were issues up the chain and the original idea of moving in Nov was moved to Jan which our buyers were happy with. The house we had an offer on we withdrew from but had an offer accepted within days on another. So it’s still probably Jan as a possible date.

we are worried that they’re getting cold feet….? Though searches may have thrown up some work being done next door.

argh to the tidying again!!

@tackytriceratops surely if they are getting a mortgage they have at least had a valuation for mortgage (it’s at that point you bump up to a home buyer’s report or a full survey). Depends on the property - I’ve known a few people not do more than the valuation survey (and some who came to regret it).

We are moving soon and our buyers had one viewing in June and nothing since. We are exchanging soon and I was expecting they would want to view again before exchange (as we did on the house we are buying) just to make sure nothing had happened, but no! I just find it so odd you can make such a huge decision on one visit!

We went for a second viewing when deciding between 2 houses to offer on, a third after offer accepted with a builder as we needed a rough cost for the building work we want to do to know what to borrow on the mortgage, then a final check before exchange (it’s been over 6 months since we last saw it) which was great as the vendor reminded us where and what everything was and it was a great handover of the house.

We booked a second viewing after getting our mortgage in place and searches done to get my dad to give it the once over as we didn’t get a survey, he’s a builder

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we didn’t need a valuation even as we were only borrowing 40% of the asking price

I would be worried they’re having cold feet about not being in the house for the end of January (I think that’s when the deadline for school applications is). If the local schools are as over-subscribed as you suggest, they may not get a place if they’re not in the house yet.

We're older and have downsized since our DH left home and have bought a few times as cash buyers. We wouldn't normally get a survey as DH was a civil engineer so fairly competent at spotting problems. If there is anything that needs further investigation we'd probably get a tradesman in to look at it, eg electrics, plumbing, roofing, rather than a surveyer who would normally say that we should call in a professional anyway. We have usually bought properties in need of renovation so tend to expect the worst.

we aren’t saying no by any means!

We viewed once, had an offer accepted and then didn’t view again until a week before exchange. We just felt we’d seen everything we needed to at the initial viewing and didn’t need to see it again until we were measuring up for furniture.

I agree that a basic survey is worthless, but you are spending the most money you will ever spend in your life on a purchase that could lose you a lot of money if you make a mistake

Unless you are very good at DIY and really understand what you are looking at, not having a detailed survey from a property professional is madness, even if it is full of arse covering

I'd want the same if I'd only seen the place once. They sound like they've never done this before, lol. I visited our current house post offer being accepted just to work out some building logistics and was glad I did.