Who else is awake because they've decided to put an offer in for a house?

RoyMi6 · 30 Jul 2015 at 12:48

Oh, acctually - forgot I took these!

I did it look google street view so there's one of pretty much every place you can stand, but I'll just some of the less boring ones!

Kitchen
https://theta360.com/s/asfCM4BpUJtJp6ysffObrFiLI

Livingroom
https://theta360.com/s/oXFcx0eNOxcJ5Zcoja2x89stE

Bottom hall
https://theta360.com/s/sn2CuPBsPpiuqNUmd01YkFpq4

Landing
https://theta360.com/s/boPfowEwQ7pvWMweB8r0rDx44

Back Garden
https://theta360.com/s/sH0fosbM2uYrS8ZKOXQRcb81Q

One of my beloved flat before we started packing up - was a good buy, and I hoped to hang on to it to rent it out, but needed the capital to purchase this dream house

https://theta360.com/s/s6l1mYO1LAj3D5NA0BG35XzTk

dowie · 30 Jul 2015 at 13:00

enlarged kitchen + sunroom is prob a good idea

but why the bedrooms downstairs?

Personally I'd turn the 'Sitting room' into a formal dining room and the 'bedroom' behind it into a cinema/media room with a sofa/bed for guests..

(that is assuming you don't have >2 kids)

RoyMi6 · 30 Jul 2015 at 13:25

dowie said:
but why the bedrooms downstairs?

It's just the labels from the plans I received on the home report.

It's being sold as a "5 bedroom" house, which technically it is, but yeah those downstairs rooms will likely become study/cinema room/spare bedroom (had a projector / 110inch screen in flat which will be coming with us)

We'd MAYBE have a formal dining room in the front but realistically it will never get used. Rear garden is south facing so just too much of a suntrap in the back rooms of the house and we enjoy the more informal setting when we have friends over.

We're used to having just 3 rooms:
Master bedroom
Open plan kitchen/living room
study/cinema room/sofa bed spare room (it was an exquisitely arranged room in my opinion!

http://i.imgur.com/IAAXk1Z.jpg)

No kids as yet!

Drizmod · 30 Jul 2015 at 13:51

If I was a seller and someone put in an offer at asking I would decline it and say I have had an higher offer from someone else. From my point of view an offer at asking means you really want the property and ill do everything i can to get you to put in a higher offer

Uther · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:22

Drizmod said:
If I was a seller and someone put in an offer at asking I would decline it and say I have had an higher offer from someone else. From my point of view an offer at asking means you really want the property and ill do everything i can to get you to put in a higher offer

Good luck with that, depends entirely on the area you are selling in. I just accepted an offer for 5k below asking from someone with no chain after having two buyers at asking whose chains collapsed, knocking everything back to square one. :rolleyes:

yer_averagejoe · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:37

I knew i recognised that river! Infact, I swam past your new house a couple of months ago

chanjy · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:41

Drizmod said:
If I was a seller and someone put in an offer at asking I would decline it and say I have had an higher offer from someone else. From my point of view an offer at asking means you really want the property and ill do everything i can to get you to put in a higher offer

Also you missed the part of the thread where in Scotland an offer at the fixed asking price means you have agreed a contract to buy.

yer_averagejoe said:
I knew i recognised that river! Infact, I swam past your new house a couple of months ago

Brave man

RoyMi6 · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:44

yer_averagejoe said:
I knew i recognised that river! Infact, I swam past your new house a couple of months ago

A fellow Dundonian on OCUK! Who'd have thought

Although I consider myself to be a Fifer, grew up over the river and only in Dundee due to work. Moving back over the water to get away from the Hilltown and everything that entails!

RoyMi6 · 30 Jul 2015 at 14:50

chanjy said:
Also you missed the part of the thread where in Scotland an offer at the fixed asking price means you have agreed a contract to buy.

Yeah, in Scotland the situation can arise where you put an offer on a house and it goes to a "closing date".

That actually happened with my flat where someone else put in an offer but because the sellers had a couple of people view it over the weekend they gave everyone until the end of the week to make their own offers. We actually got it despite the fact we only put in our offer last minute - still paid under the valuation as this was 4 years ago when things were going a bit sour.

I was actually worried this might happen when buying this house. It had been on the market for "offers over £295K" originally, then dropped to "£280K fixed". I was anxious if we made a cheeky offer of £275K say that they'd do the same and go to a "closing date". As such, we offered the full asking price with the proviso that no other offers would be accepted or entertained.

Either way, it all worked out in the end!