Sold house, buyer wants appliances...

TBH I thought I was doing them a favour saying they could have them for £100, it would save me messing around selling them separately.
I just feel if I give in to this what else they will try on.
 
Sounds like a good deal for the buyers, £100 for that lot especially if brand new is a steal

Like whats been said when you sale you will get a fixtures and fittings form where you state what is staying etc.

Im currently selling, and my buyer is taking a few things. My oven is brand new, cost near £700. I sold that to them, along with curtains, poles and some av stuff for and extra £1,500. Its a fair deal. Your guys seem to be pushing if it they are saying £100 is to much!
 
They're stupid if they don't take that deal, sounds good to me!

When we moved into our current place we were offered to buy their Range cooker for £600 - we told them no way... should have done our homework before saying that as we only realised afterwards how much they are new!

It shouldn't be a deal-breaker but for £100 I wouldn't back down unless it was.
 
keep an eye out on freecycle and swap in for the ones you have :)

in all seriousness part of the contracting process will be a list of fixtures and fittings your leaving, usually this will be done in a form with 'optional' items with a cost associated - do it as part of this process.
 
Bargain or not, it's kind of - shook hands on £250,000 for a house, now bargaining for £100 worth of appliances. Obviously "tightness" of the situation goes both ways, but clearly the buyer is clearly a bit too tight/overstretched. It's up to you whether you want to entertain it for the sake of the bigger deal, you totally don't have to.
 
When I made offer for my property I stated that I want all the furniture to stay. It was rented out before so none of it was in great condition anyway but I was first time buyer and had no furniture myself.
Seller accepted this offer, signed the memorandum of sale with that on, then couple of weeks later he decided he wanted extra £2k for all that. Even EA said that that I could buy all that for about £500 2nd hand. At the end seller took away few things but left me with kitchen appliances and few other things for the original price we agreed on.
 
I bought a house years ago and the ex owner took everything, carpets, curtain rails, light fittings, plug sockets, light sockets, loft hatch and a internal door !

He was a very strange man, found a load of gnomes buried in the back garden when we started digging that up.
 
v0n said:
Bargain or not, it's kind of - shook hands on £250,000 for a house, now bargaining for £100 worth of appliances. Obviously "tightness" of the situation goes both ways, but clearly the buyer is clearly a bit too tight/overstretched. It's up to you whether you want to entertain it for the sake of the bigger deal, you totally don't have to.
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Why should buying a house be anything but a normal transaction. We even argued that we wanted the current years land charge paying £5.
 
Right now its a sellers market. If they are dumb enough to pull out of the sale for £100 then you're better off without them and sell it to someone else who isn't likely to kick up fuss further down the line. Remember it aint a done deal until exchange/completion.
Bloody cheek "expecting them as part of the sale". :rolleyes:
 
Thing is, for the buyer these are second hand appliances, so they expect them for nothing. For you to replace them though, you will have to buy new, and these will cost if you want any decent stuff.

I would leave anything fitted, but make them as part of the price of the sale, anything standalone can either be bought at a reasonable price by the buyers, or go with you to your new place.

I know people that bought houses without kitchens or bathrooms, and when asked if they could get a discount based on these things being missing was basically told "the house it what it is, the price isn't changing just because you need to put in new kitchen/bathroom".

I also know people that spent thousands on buying old furniture they didn't want just to make sure the sale went through smoothly. One even had to promise to take the cat! They tried to give it away afterwards, the cat came back by itself, so they inherited a pet to get the house!
 
my neighbours removed the light bulbs when they sold their house lol

As for your buyer, no these do not come with the house. In Holland they even remove the laminate flooring and light sockets but then that is normal over there and the buyer negotiates if they want to keep them.
 
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