Property News · April 27, 2016

I haggled over a desirable maisonette and won … but it's a hollow victory


Playing hardball didn’t work, but now I am told that even when the vendor has accepted the offer the estate agent can still send higher offers They say you have a feeling or you just know when you have found the place you want to call home. Stepping into a one-bed maisonette a few miles from Southampton’s city centre, in one of its more desirable suburbs, I came the closest yet to that sensation. It had recently been refurbished and the £140,000 price was slightly less than my budget of £146,000. With green space nearby and good transport links it was desirable, more so because it was close to my work.I’d made offers several times before – with one flat I was put off after stumbling on a Facebook residents’ association page showing major damp and security issues. The same happened with a flat I was close to buying around Christmas, but Googling the address saved me. Another with time management fees of £1,550 a year put me off a property. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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