We have an offer!

Turn it down, let them sweat. See what happens with the other buyer, there's nothing to say you can't go back later having already rejected it and actually accept it or like Flow said ask for a smaller amount extra.

I'm scared ?

On the plus side, she is a first time buyer which means a short chain and therefore possible bargaining power for us as buyers...?

True, if she's not in a hurry to move and is prepared to wait while you find and get an offer accepted on somewhere yourself then could work in your favour..

I don't really know anything about buying or selling a house, but £15k under an asking price is a bit of a long shot for a buyer to even put in as an offer surely?

H's mum sold her house for 2k under the asking price, but overall lost about £12k on the house because of the recession and the house wasn't valued at the price she paid for it originally.

Hope you get some good news soon!

I need to phone the agents this morning (am nervous?!)

We talked about the semi-detached last night too and are thinking of putting in an offer on that, a bit under the asking price as it needs a lot of updating.

We talked about the new one that we both loved, but the parking issue was just too big.

Hopefully some more will pop up.

I feel like a hypocrite sometimes though, obviously we want as much for ours as possible and the buyer wants a bargain, and we want a bargain with the one we buy and they obviously want as much as possible!!

The estate agent has gone back to the client... I am so nervous I feel sick! I don't like this house selling business!!!

Tis just the way the cookie crumbles though, the people you buy off will be exactly the same, looking for as much as they can get from you whilst wanting a bargain on wherever they are buying.

Fingers crossed Mrs C.

It's horrible waiting for an answer - hope you hear something (good) soon

Right, still waiting to hear back from the buyer... fingers still crossed.

Have put in an offer for the one we like, the seller is going to speak to his wife and let us know... but it wasn't a flat out no!

They did say that the house would stay on the market though until we have a definite buyer, not just in negotiations stage... apparently this is normal?

Quite normal. I would personally say as a seller I wouldn't be prepared to take house off the market until you had a buyer for your flat and until a solicitor was appointed by you both.

A house we were going after last year said they same to us, perfectly happy with that, we appointed solicitor and estate agent chased and chased buyer of OH's flat to appoint a solicitor then they pulled out. B@stards! Was an investor though so no emotion involved.

? Our offer on the house was accepted!

The estate agent sounded so shocked that they accepted!

Last month it was listed for £295k, then it was dropped to £275k... we offered £260k!

Part of me is wondering if they would have gone as far as £250k and saved us £5k on stupid stamp duty... but meh!

Now I just need our first time buyer to hurry up and reply!

*I am shaking*

OH EMM GEE!!!

this is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which house is it again!?

The big semi detached one!!

Wow!!!

Bloody brilliant!!! What an exciting afternoon on OT!!!

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Lots of vibes for your buyer to up their offer.

?Fantastic News!!! Hurry Up positive vibes to you that your buyers get back in touch soon! >>>>>>>>>>?

Congrats! That's brill!

Congrats Mrs C.?

Hooray! What exciting news!

Yay - how exciting ?, hope its good news for you in getting your asking price

Any news, Mrs C?

Just caught up with this thread. ? for you and hope you hear from the FTB soon!