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denviks:

--- Quote from: laser_jock99 on November 18, 2008, 22:36:44 ---


The boot is firmly on the buyer's foot right now. I'm having great fun whilst looking for a new house at the moment - you can pretty much offer what you like for a house these days and the seller (and estate agent) has to take every offer quite seriously. I'm hoping to get a deal soon on a house which started at 280K in January, for less than 200K. If the seller won't budge- then move on. There are plenty of other sellers who must eventually cave in. What makes me laugh most is the sellers who still think they can sell a house in 2009 for it's 2007 'top of the market' value.....

My advice if you're looking to buy at the moment- start by offering at least 50k under the asking price. There's some serious bargains starting to appear out there.

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thats why we pulled our house off the market.....people were making really stupid offers.....now we know its a buyers market but we aint that desperate to sell........... roll on 2011 ...we will try again then maybe  ;)

out estate agents were terrible though.....we are still dealing with ethe scam they tried to pull on us  :evil:

laser_jock99:

--- Quote from: denviks on November 19, 2008, 16:20:18 ---
--- Quote from: laser_jock99 on November 18, 2008, 22:36:44 ---


The boot is firmly on the buyer's foot right now. I'm having great fun whilst looking for a new house at the moment - you can pretty much offer what you like for a house these days and the seller (and estate agent) has to take every offer quite seriously. I'm hoping to get a deal soon on a house which started at 280K in January, for less than 200K. If the seller won't budge- then move on. There are plenty of other sellers who must eventually cave in. What makes me laugh most is the sellers who still think they can sell a house in 2009 for it's 2007 'top of the market' value.....

My advice if you're looking to buy at the moment- start by offering at least 50k under the asking price. There's some serious bargains starting to appear out there.

--- End quote ---


thats why we pulled our house off the market.....people were making really stupid offers.....now we know its a buyers market but we aint that desperate to sell........... roll on 2011 ...we will try again then maybe  ;)

out estate agents were terrible though.....we are still dealing with ethe scam they tried to pull on us  :evil:

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Certainly if you do not really need to sell your house at the moment then you did the right thing by taking it off the market. On the plus side though- if your house sold for 50k less than expected then the house you buy will correspondingly be 50K less too. We are all in the same market after all.

Ridgeback:
I do think that Estate Agents are real people and have a job to do, but I still cant help thinking most of them (before the slow down) were over paid, under qualified and deserving of many of the comments they get.
I went to sell my shared ownership house once.  I only had 25% to sell but all the local agents wanted a percentage based on the 100% property value. I put the house on the market with one Agent and also put my own ad up. I had offers for the asking price within 12 hrs from both the Agent and my own ad. The agent wanted £1500 for a few phone calls and one visit. I think Its because of this greed, that they upset people so much.

Not saying all agents are the same but most I have dealt with will say anything to get a sale.
At least a teacher has to be qualified for what little pay they get.

I am in Technical Sales and design, so I know what it is like when you have targets to hit, however I spent 5 years getting qualified in what I do and would never tell a customer something incorrect just to get the sale.

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