Guest kirstig123 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Good luck little sarah!!! Hope it goes to plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nicole Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Hi I am new to this forum thing but we have put our house on the market today at the same price we paid for it 2 years ago. Having done a lot of work... I am keeping an eye on the oz market and it is dropping also so hopefully we can make up some of the loss in the next house. I can relate to you KJ I to am australia came over 8 years ago with a backpack.....now have a house three kids and two dogs later is alot harder to move back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmaroo Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Hi We put our house on the market in Sept last year with 1 viewing we took off over Christmas so we could relax a bit. Just put it back on the market today so fingers crossed it goes this time! Good Luck to all those trying to sell Emma x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkos Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 hi guys, we just sold our house for 182,500 which gave us a clean break as there was no chain we accepted it this was 40K under the original valuation.. its realy down to how much we want to go i suppose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest littlesarah Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Just to update you, we have agreed a price that is £11k under the asking price (£16k below original valuation). Now all we've got to do is hope they don't back out before we complete! It's not ideal, but at least we get to walk away with some equity & a clean break. Good luck to all trying to sell in this difficult market. Sarah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaniaColin Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Hi I am new to this forum thing but we have put our house on the market today at the same price we paid for it 2 years ago. Having done a lot of work... I am keeping an eye on the oz market and it is dropping also so hopefully we can make up some of the loss in the next house. I can relate to you KJ I to am australia came over 8 years ago with a backpack.....now have a house three kids and two dogs later is alot harder to move back... Hi Nicole welcome to the forum, best of luck with the house sale Tania X:wubclub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdyer12 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Hi Sarah I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed for you. The last 3 weeks have been the longest ever, from agreeing a price to going to contract. We exchanged contracts today (YIPPEE) but I have been watching prices drop in east kent over the last few weeks expecting our buyers to either offer less or drop out completely. Even their surveyor told me to expect it! So thats it we move out next friday and off to Melbourne early Feb Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andy Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Just to update you, we have agreed a price that is £11k under the asking price (£16k below original valuation). Now all we've got to do is hope they don't back out before we complete! It's not ideal, but at least we get to walk away with some equity & a clean break. Good luck to all trying to sell in this difficult market. Sarah Hi Sarah, Well done on your offer, I think in the current market that you have done well to achieve the price you have, I hope it all goes smoothly for you. andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kirstig123 Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Excellent news, I think you have done well in current conditions. This thread is giving me some hope that we too will sell at some point. Hopefully Gordon Brown will wave a magic wand and people will buy houses again. We bought our house 5 years ago, but have gutted it and spent loads on it....but its like dunkos just said, it depends on how much you want to go. If our visa comes through quickly I would stick ours in auction I think!! OH will prop disagree though!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WARDStoOZ Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Just to update you, we have agreed a price that is £11k under the asking price (£16k below original valuation). Now all we've got to do is hope they don't back out before we complete! It's not ideal, but at least we get to walk away with some equity & a clean break. Good luck to all trying to sell in this difficult market. Sarah Congrats on the offer Sarah :yes: Dan xx :-) :smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNMACMD Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Well done Sarah and Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Supermidwife Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Good luck Sarah, hope it all goes well. Please send a bit of your luck in house selling our way!Ours has been for sale since December 07, and have reduced it by£50k. Got our visas in May 08 and had to go and validate in October. We were just arranging to rent out now that interest rates have dropped but we have had 3 viewings in the last week. Last couple are deciding between ours and one other, so keep your fingers crossed but we've got to the stage where we don't feel it would ever sell:arghh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ashmalog Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 well done sarah, hope it goes smoothly. wish i was in the same position. still waiting for that crucial viewing. x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The "legdes" Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Hi Littlesara, We are in the same boat as you - have accepted a much lower offer (£60K less than all 5 July valuations) and are waiting for exchange. The survey was done on Friday -so fingers crossed. Our buyers would like to be in on 20/2 - so lets hope that helps speed things along. Why I say do the maths is that in my opinion its the exchange rate that really makes the difference (much more than the actual selling price). If you have banked the money and can choose a good time to go to dollars that can be much more beneficial than having held on until the last moment for a good price and perhaps not have a great window to exchange in - not to mention all the stress around "will we ever find a buyer ?" As per prev page - can't remember who it was but they had had their survey. We're just hoping that a drop of 1/7th in the price over the last 7 months is enough to satisfy the surveyors valuation ! The other bad thing now is when we move we will be renting here as we haven't got our visa yet and that's going to cost us double what our mortgage payments are - doh. The reason we put it up for sale before we got our visa is that 2 couples we know have had their visas for over a year and haven't yet sold. They've both had to do special visits to Oz to get their visas stamped. Well good luck - I'm sure accepting the offer is the right thing. We had minor second thoughts the day after we accepted but everyday since we've thought it was an ace decision. Let us know how it goes - oh by the way we had to wait what seemed ages for the survey - nearly a month ! Just to update you, we have agreed a price that is £11k under the asking price (£16k below original valuation). Now all we've got to do is hope they don't back out before we complete! It's not ideal, but at least we get to walk away with some equity & a clean break. Good luck to all trying to sell in this difficult market. Sarah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ianpyne Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Hi All, we have an offer today for the full price,no chain a cash buyer for investment. Took 11 days to sell so am absolutely chuffed as nuts:spinny: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongrel Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Hi All, we have an offer today for the full price,no chain a cash buyer for investment.Took 11 days to sell so am absolutely chuffed as nuts:spinny: Hope you`ve gotta job overe here nally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nicole Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 thats fantastic news.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaniaColin Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Hi All, we have an offer today for the full price,no chain a cash buyer for investment.Took 11 days to sell so am absolutely chuffed as nuts:spinny: Well done on the house sale Best of luck Tania X:yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WARDStoOZ Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Hi All, we have an offer today for the full price,no chain a cash buyer for investment.Took 11 days to sell so am absolutely chuffed as nuts:spinny: Huge congrats Ian! Do you mind me asking... was your house up at it's valuation or did you put if up for less in hope of a quick sale??? Dan :smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongrel Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Huge congrats Ian! Do you mind me asking... was your house up at it's valuation or did you put if up for less in hope of a quick sale??? Dan :smile: He lives in Poole Dorset Dan mega investment potential or sae Mally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WARDStoOZ Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 He lives in Poole Dorset Dan mega investment potential or saeMally Thanks Mally :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ianpyne Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Huge congrats Ian! Do you mind me asking... was your house up at it's valuation or did you put if up for less in hope of a quick sale??? Dan :smile: we asked for 179,950 which was the valuation, with a view to accepting 175,000.The first offer was that but we refused,and they came back with the asking price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mongrel Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 Thanks Mally :-) If thats you Dan I`m going to drag you down to the beach an drown you tell your mum to do her own dirty stufff laughs Mally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WARDStoOZ Posted January 23, 2009 Share Posted January 23, 2009 we asked for 179,950 which was the valuation, with a view to accepting 175,000.The first offer was that but we refused,and they came back with the asking price. Thanks for the info! Congrats again! Dan :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggirl Posted January 24, 2009 Author Share Posted January 24, 2009 Well, congrats to those with offers and hopefully the rest of us will have the same luck! Sounds like a drop in price will probably be the way to go. Cheers KJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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