Currently buying/selling a house? How is it going? READ MOD NOTE POST #1

Sono wrote: »

Viewed the latest phase of Belltree in D13 yesterday, very underwhelming to say the least, wasn’t impressed at all.

Location, finish/spec? Can you elaborate please?

Buying ourselves and have had asking price refused.
Agents setting prices and telling the sellers they will get more so not to accept. We had one offer accepted only to be called later that night requesting another 10k or the deal was off.

Houses in the 320ish bracket seem to attract the largest viewing from what our broker has told us. A friend in work has been out bid 15 times in the last 4 months by between 20 and 30K.

Have heard alot lately about buyers agreeing a price. After the survey is done they try to get money of due to something small ie a small leak in ceiling due to a tile damaged or a boundry wall falling down out the bacm garden so it needs to be rebuilt. is this the norm now people agree and then try to cut price down? Have heard lots of buyers doing it lately

beggars_bush wrote: »

Have been informed today that the vendor is also removing all the white goods from the house, which were meant to come with the sale.

He's a lad with numerous rental properties

I'd definitely be talking to your solicitor if has was priced fully furnished on the market.
When you say white goods fridge washing machine ect

spiralout wrote: »

Just about to get mortgage approval so we can start seriously looking for a house. Had kept an eye on a few houses while saving our deposit last year but they have since gone out of our reach in price. We'll have small mortgage so trying to find value will be difficult. Exciting times ahead.

best of luck and keep your wits about you!

beggars_bush wrote: »

Have been informed today that the vendor is also removing all the white goods from the house, which were meant to come with the sale.

No harm if you can get a reduction in price due to this, as I'd rather buy my own white goods rather than use someone else's fridge freezer, washing machine, dishwasher etc.

NIMAN wrote: »

No harm if you can get a reduction in price due to this, as I'd rather buy my own white goods rather than use someone else's fridge freezer, washing machine, dishwasher etc.

I've decided to go ahead with the sale anyway. vendor was not for turning, though I feel the house will be stripped to the bare bones once we get it

We have just sold and bought a house in Dublin

Lessons learned

Try not to get to attached and think of Phantom bidders etc. Asking price for house suddenly went up 30k and then seller asked for more, and we had to bid against ourselfs.:mad::mad: Its a sellers market out there
I dont think there is something as a dream house so dont limit yourselfs be open
Be prepared for delays with solicitors and all the legal mumbo jumbo. Also shop around as different solicitors different charges
Choose estate agent get 3 different quotes if selling dont always go for the highest check out fees
When buying ensure that the contracts have what you get ie curtains, fridge etc. We bought a house and the sellers took the shelves I mean who takes shelves??
If buying estate agents can be right A holes and just interested in the $$$. Not to tarnish them all with the same brush most we met where decent
Visit the banks and see what they offer and rates and speak to them direclty
Get all your financial statements, bills, Salary certs in order as can delay approval
Be prepared for disagreements and arguments with partner:rolleyes:

Last one maybe not relevant but emotions do run high

Good luck to anyone doing it Im glad its all over for us

I think you should lower your ask price. Ideally you need to get people to the viewings and get a bidding war going. You have had people show up but there are a lot of tyre kickers. We looked for a year before we were in a position to buy.

I would also lower my ask earlier rather than later. You don't want to look desperate to sell.

Then the basics, make sure the house is clean and smell free. It's obvious but I can't count the houses that stank of smoke or pets.

Good luck. I do think the market is slow though. Took us nearly 8 months to sell last year in a highly desirable area of Dublin. Our sale agreed fell through just as contracts were going to be signed. We had to go back to market and accepted a much reduced offering.

tallaghtjoe wrote: »

We have already dropped the price of the house and would prefer not to have to drop it any further.

Not sure what to do at this stage, any ideas?

Is it priced correctly?

It's generally the price.

limnam wrote: »

Is it priced correctly?

It's generally the price.

We did consider the area/location, what we spent on the house and the condition of the house.

There has only been a small number of houses that sold in our area over the last year or so, and have sold for close to what we are asking for, but they are not a similar style house. Looks like this is something we will have to review again.

tallaghtjoe wrote: »

We are selling at moment. House has been on the market since last August. We changed estate agents after 5 months after having no viewings. We probably allowed them too much time thinking back, but they kept giving us excuses about the market been slow. We changed to a different agent around Christmas time, he has arranged 3 viewings since, but not one arranged a second view.

Really nice house in very good condition and could move straight in without decorating. It is in a village but is commuting distance to a couple of larger towns.

We have already dropped the price of the house and would prefer not to have to drop it any further.

Not sure what to do at this stage, any ideas?

A couple of years ago we tried to view a house (numerous) times and no matter what availability we gave the estate agent could not accommodate us. It was bizarre but the agent was based quite a bit away from the area the house was in and we assumed that had a part to play in it all. I wonder is this similar? Can you try an open house viewing on a Saturday maybe for a couple of hours?

Spotted a perfect house, rang estate agents, came with catch of tenants in situ. Get to fcuk, why not advertise it as that instead of wasting my time.Probably owners and all looking to sell but dont want to move out.

I'd make sure if you're having problems with EA's to pop a letter to the owner and advise them

A lot of sellers don't know how lazy and incompetent some of the EA's are

Just a quick note advising you want to view and having a lot of problems with contact details

givyjoe wrote: »

its been the same for the last few months, there seemed to a drop off from around October. Really noticing the lack of new properties at the moment. Actually went and signed up for alerts on Daft. The alerts info message stated I should expect to receive around 34 emails per day, based on my criteria. I received 3.

Yeah, we actually went sale agreed on a place last week but I haven't stopped the alerts yet. For the last 4-5 months there are very few properties going on the market and any that are aren't suitable for us (e.g .they're apartments). I am getting an alert about once every two weeks at the moment.

tallaghtjoe wrote: »

We are selling at moment. House has been on the market since last August. We changed estate agents after 5 months after having no viewings. We probably allowed them too much time thinking back, but they kept giving us excuses about the market been slow. We changed to a different agent around Christmas time, he has arranged 3 viewings since, but not one arranged a second view.

Really nice house in very good condition and could move straight in without decorating. It is in a village but is commuting distance to a couple of larger towns.

We have already dropped the price of the house and would prefer not to have to drop it any further.

Not sure what to do at this stage, any ideas?

We had similar happen and unfortunately it's just the price. We found that if the house was priced too high ( which it was in our case) it discouraged people from making offers as they prob thought we wanted above asking price like lots of sellers do. So we just didn't get the offers when actually we were open to them as we wanted rid of the house. We did get an offer in the end 45k under the original asking price (and we were delighted) and the house sold. It's frustrating, I know when you just want to sell your house and nothing is happening.