House Offer

Originally Posted by Aidan

When I bought my house a year ago, the estate agents (Romans in Berkshire) were horrendous. The seller wanted to sell, we wanted to buy, but every time we asked a quesiton, the agent put it to the seller as if we were being rude. In the end I googled the sellers name and contacted her directly, was polite and we got to an agreement far easier. When I come to sell, I think I'll try a site like housesimple where you can miss the estate agent out, save thousands of pounds and make life easier.

We used Romans initially to put a house up for sale, they were useless, got the floorplan wrong online and even after we went into their office and corrected it and signed it off they never changed it. We dropped them in the end.

I made my offers direct to the seller,

Made them when I was viewing the property, the estate agent was stood there and didn't seem happy but I ignored him.

[keith_d]

Originally Posted by Spank86

Generally speaking once a house is under offer and has been accepted by the seller the estate agents wont take any more offers.

Clearly not living anywhere around London..


If you get on well with the seller you could exchange mobile numbers. The guy I bought my house from was great. The solicitors tried dragging their feet with, "We're waiting for Mr H. to sign xxxx". Only to get Mr H. on the phone asking them what they were talking about 5 minutes later, and I'd do the same if he found a problem. Worked for me.

Keith.

One more thought - dealing through estate agents is like stepping in something nasty. Best avoided where possible.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

Tell them your offer is a realistic offer on reflection of the cuurent market value blah blah blah. The problem you have is greedy relatives of the deceased who expect maximum return for their gold digging.

I've been watching a house that went on the market a few months back go from offers over 159k, slowly get reduced to 149, and now 139k. No upward chain. We won't be moving now which is a shame, as it really ticked so many boxes, and I bet if I offered 124,999 they'd rip my arm off to get shut......

What a lovely generalisation there- they may well be grieving relatives just trying to get rid of their mothers house, I know I just wanted my mums gone.

[hindle8907]

Well bit of an update things moved fast yesterday.
We have settled on 130,000 and I negotiated that they leave the white goods.
Washing machine, dishwasher , ect ect.
Its worth 130,000 and me and my partner are over the moon
Now let's hope the mortgage process goes ok !
Cheers guys

[L3nny]

Nice one!

[andrewsmith]

Well done!

[Tom_the_great]

Enjoy

Good lad! Look forwards to house warming org party

[dyzio]

Originally Posted by Spank86

I made my offers direct to the seller,
Made them when I was viewing the property, the estate agent was stood there and didn't seem happy but I ignored him.

Good stuff Ant


How "inappropriate" is it to talk about money with the owners?
As in saying, "look, the bank will only lend me this amount, would you be interested?"

I'm about to have a viewing with the owners on a place which has been on the market for a few months...

Of course everything would be done via a solicitor, but to save everyone the hassle on this one bit...