House selling/buying part 2

[2longinthetooth]

This is the continuation for those on spring selling/buying thread.

We've sold!! 🥳🥳 They offered 207, we countered with 215 and they came up to 213. We bought it for 213 in 2021 so to break even is better than taking a hit!

Two of the three bungalows I've been keeping an eye on have sold, one today which is just soul destroying, but we have a viewing booked for tomorrow on the last remaining bungalow on my watch list.

It'd be our forever home so we would take our time doing all the things we need to do to it to make it work for us but we definitely need to get it at the right price to make it workable.

That’s great TeddyBeans fingers crossed for your purchase.

Aww amazing news! Congratulations 🥳

Lol 😆 yeah we'd had our eye on these properties for a couple of months but wasn't ready to view. Now were like let's just do it 😁

Aww amazing congratulations 🥳 Will keep fingers crossed for one of the bungalows. One of the properties we're going to see on Saturday is a bungalow as well 🙂

@leopardprintandsunbeams welcome from another newbie who found this thread today! I feel your pain - we were selling a house, not a flat, but it was still frustratingly slow to find a buyer. Hardly any viewings! The market is extremely slow here in the south west. We ended up dropping our price by 15k and quickly realised we'd found a more realistic level - the viewings picked up 'a little' but the feedback became consistently super positive and we got an offer quite quickly (for far too little, but hey!). We accepted a much better offer last Monday 😃

So hang in there! The whole search engine thing is so tricky - our house wasn't appearing either, Rightmove start to sort of hide listings a bit once they've been on there for a while. You have to drop by 2% to kick the algorithms in again... all very annoying and so different to when we last bought 15 years ago!

@Rosemagicawwww could give you a massive hug. Thanks so much for the positivity and lovely message! I’m taking this as a good sign! And congrats on the higher offer 🫶🫶🫶❤️ sending loads of good vibes for a smooth and steady completion!

@leopardprintandsunbeams sending hugs back to you too!! If we hadn't sold by mid-November, our plan was to move estate agents and take the house off Rightmove for the rest of the year to sort of reset things. Then relist it on there in January with the new agent. Have you thought about doing that? Apparently you need to sort of go dark for at least 3 weeks or you don't get the impact of a fresh appearance back on RM. But apparently December is a reeeeeally slow month for house sales, so we figured it was a good time to do it!

@2longinthetoothawww don’t know the back story! But congratulations on the sale of your house and good luck for the future xxxx

@Rosemagicyes I’m thinking of taking it off and just putting it back on in January with a lower price, but people keep saying just put in now as market will be saturated in January! To be honest I think it’s just the market not the agent or the property! Sadly one bed flats, however pretty don’t want to sell!

@leopardprintandsunbeamsWelcome to the madness. Your flat sounds great especially with a freehold share, so id say its a timing issue. Perhaps take it off but get it back on for boxing day, fresh as a daisy ready for the new yr.

@Beebumble2Thanks, so hoping you get that exchange. I will cross everything for you. Sending positive exchange vibes.

@TeddyBeansawww fantastic news for you, im so pleased you got a result. Breaking even in this climate is a win. Go get that bungalow. Make your dreams come true. Id love a bungalow. Let's us know how the viewing goes. So excited for you.

@autumnvelvetwhisperDont blame you, get out there scout around. Its your time now. Ive been waiting 7yrs to move. Now we are theres bugger all to move to 😂. Jan better produce something.

Just a small gripe about solicitors! Luckily, we’ve found an amazing one to manage the purchase of our new place - but our seller’s solicitor is hopeless! They’ve yet to respond to the list of questions our solicitor sent them on 30th July!! Luckily there are hopefully no show stoppers in there, but we still need formal responses or nothing will move forward. THEN last week the solicitor acting for the probate sale of my husband’s mum’s house sent both his and his sister’s contracts out to the wrong addresses! 🤦🏻‍♀️ It doesn’t exactly reassure us about their attention to detail 😬

Can I join in the moan please, we’re buying a FTB house for our son and DIL for cash, offer accepted late June and STILL don’t have an exchange date, we’ve been ready for 5 weeks now and no one can tell us what the hold up is, it’s a chain of 3, the sellers solicitor went on long term leave last week. It’s infuriating because DS and DIL Are still paying rent months after we expected, and will need to stay there for 6 weeks after getting the keys for a rewire (which we can’t book in yet), redorating and new flooring. Looks increasingly like they won’t be able to move in now till after Xmas and I’ve ordered all the furniture to be delivered on 12 December. This system is way way longer than all the times we bought houses for ourselves 20 odd years ago, 8 weeks was a normal time

That’s appalling

I feel their pain Mumblechum0.
We’rein the same boat, offer accepted July, chain of 3, no mortgages involved. Our seller’s onward purchase is chain fee, but they have been using delaying tactics for months although there’s no issues regarding the sale.

@Rosemagicour buyers solicitor used to work for the firm our solicitor was with. They got rid of her because she was ridiculously slow. Even EA knew about her. She would take 2 weeks to sort 1 thing and only do things in the presence of the buyers. Honestly it was draining.

@Mumblechum0 aw the length of conveyancing is off the scale. We took offer in early June and completed today and that was me pushing. Honestly its crazy. There have been people on here cash buyers chain free, just them and seller and its taken months. We broke the chain but had many months to look for a property. Nit looking forward to conveyancing next yr for our next home.

Exactly, DS and DIL are cash FTB, they’ve offered full asking price and haven’t tried to knock anything off for the odd things the survey threw up, god knows what they’ll have to go through when they upsize in a few years

Reading along and horrified about the tales being told here . Sold and bought a house in 1992 and no problems then like this . Why ?? What is the problem do you think ? Too many offices involved? How are many people from different places supposed to coordinate? Are you allowed to have a huge chain of buyers