Me and my husband have been to look at ahouse today, It will be our second house, we live in a 2 bed semi at the moment!! I thought it was value for money. well these days it is. it was everything we want. 4 bedroomed, 3 double ones. spacious. nice area. garage, the garden was a nice size. not big though. has a sun trap. We probably could pay £170.000
It was the 2nd house we have looked at so far. we are desparate now to get our house on the market.

My husband says the garden isnt what he wants, but I said for the price we can afford I dont think we will be able to get a big garden, garage 3/4 bedroomed house all in one.
Hopefully we will be able to afford £170.000. I mean does anyone live in their perfect house. to me if you do get it you are lucky.

I viewed about 20 houses, made offers on 4 and had my offer accepted on the one I will be moving into next week.

All four I offered on, including the one I have got, had issues that I was prepared to compromise on.

I think you have to compromise at some stage, unless you have a limitless budget, which sadly I do not.

I would say the house is 95 percent what I wanted, 5 percent compromise.

Good luck.

Ideally I'd like a 3 or 4 bed bungalow like the one I grew up in with an attached garage, but there's no chance!

The higher the prices go the more you have to compromise. I'm afraid we are all being taken for a ride but you have to have somewhere to live.

B

We are going to try and put our house on the market hopefuly get it valued towards the end of next week.asap. but there is so much to do, jobs finishing off. we will be trying to make it more appealing for first time buyers and it is 2 bedroomed. so hope it will sell fairly quickly!
Are many first time buyers looking at the moment?

Originally posted by Bourne
Ideally I'd like a 3 or 4 bed bungalow like the one I grew up in with an attached garage, but there's no chance!

The higher the prices go the more you have to compromise. I'm afraid we are all being taken for a ride but you have to have somewhere to live.

B

who is it taking us for a ride?

Originally posted by beth29
We are going to try and put our house on the market hopefuly get it valued towards the end of next week.asap. but there is so much to do, jobs finishing off. we will be trying to make it more appealing for first time buyers and it is 2 bedroomed. so hope it will sell fairly quickly!
Are many first time buyers looking at the moment?

We're exactly in the same boat beth. Lots of jobs to do before getting valuers in. Have you gone for one estate agent for valuation or a few?

Know what you mean about the comprimising. Viewed 4 so far and got a few to view next week. The thing that stumps me is Do you wait until you've put an offer in on a property before putting your own on the market? Or do you put it on before and risk the possiblity of holding the seller up whilst you house hunt?

Put your house on the market. If you have a buyer it puts you in a much better position when putting offers in on houses you are interested in.
A seller faced with a buyer who has sold, or has no chain and one whos house is not on the market yet, will go with the one who has sold, more often than not.

Originally posted by Cyclone
who is it taking us for a ride?

If you're a first time buyer everyone else in the game is basically taking you for a ride!

Also the people who buy as an investment and force prices up. Homes are for living in, one person one house I say!

B

I see the problem in my husband has been self employed 15 months ish. We are not first time buyers. so I have told the mortgage our circumstaneces at the moment to see if we can borrow more. and what we can borrow exactly.
so that is our dilemma at the moment.

We really like this house though what we have seen so if we can sell our house, sell it. then live with my parents', not looking forward to that. and then offer him cash. if still available!
We keep getting bags together so our house doesnt look cluttered to sell.

Originally posted by beth29
Me and my husband have been to look at ahouse today, It will be our second house, we live in a 2 bed semi at the moment!! I thought it was value for money. well these days it is. it was everything we want. 4 bedroomed, 3 double ones. spacious. nice area. garage, the garden was a nice size. not big though. has a sun trap. We probably could pay £170.000
It was the 2nd house we have looked at so far. we are desparate now to get our house on the market.

My husband says the garden isnt what he wants, but I said for the price we can afford I dont think we will be able to get a big garden, garage 3/4 bedroomed house all in one.
Hopefully we will be able to afford £170.000. I mean does anyone live in their perfect house. to me if you do get it you are lucky.

May I ask where on earth you can buy a 4 bedroomed house (3 doubles) with garage for £170,000?

Sold our house after 4weeks on the market but been looking for our perfect house for 3months. I eat breath & sleep houses. I check estate agent web sites morning & night.
Last Tuesday we found a house. It had only been on the market 4 hours. It’s not in a great area but it’s within our budget and had a lot of love & money spent on it. I rang up 9am the following morning and put an offer in for the asking price. The estate agent rang me a hour later to say the vender wants to see what other interest they get before accepting our offer as it as only been on the market a few days.
It’s a good job the bloke that is buying ours is not rushing us because my dreams of being in our new home before Xmas are fading fast.
I’m beginning to wish there was some sort of self help group us poor people that want to move houses can attend. In stead I bore my family and friends with my constant chatter about property.

Originally posted by t020
May I ask where on earth you can buy a 4 bedroomed house (3 doubles) with garage for £170,000?

We'll all be rushing around to that area to snap up the houses - you're asking at least #360,000...

:)

The one we have seen is GRenoside at £175.000. nice area, not near chaucer parson cross. which I dont want.
If we can get cash we might try and offer less!!

Just seen a 21-bedroomed property in Burngreave, S3. or a 4-bedroomed property in Ecclesfield - #185,000.

Hi. Where about at ecclesfield. what estate agent?
WE havent had anyone to value our property at the moment. hopefully get that done next week. I am hoping for £100k. may be more but if more probably wont ell as quick!!!
We would like something a bit old.

Rightmove - type in the criteria box: 'Sheffield', '4 bedroom' from '£170000' to 'maximum'

HTH

Done that !!
thank-you