Re: House Sale & Move, 2nd attempt!
Another house viewing yesterday.
2-bed house in the area that we like and prefer in fairly good condition, although there were a number of things I was concerned about.
Rooms a nice size and decorating OK-ish - not quite our taste but we could learn to live with it with a few tweaks.
The only problem is that the vendor has put this on for £239,995!
Could not believe that asking price for an ex-Council house which actually does need updating in terms of the electrics at the very least and the roof's green with moss so insulation is piss-poor.
EPC said D with a possibility to achieve a C but I think that's a bit optimistic and typically skewed IMHO as this house has cavity walls.
Ours doesn't and got lots of tut-tut-tuts from the EPC assessor who said it's an E because of the lack of cavity walls AND it's got a nasty, hideously inefficient Back Boiler!
Our fuel bill for the past full year was £838 on a Dual Fuel Tariff with OVO; well BELOW average for the average 3-bed!
Told him and he shut up after that!
We have offered our top whack but I'm regretting that now because it'll leave nothing left from the sale of this house and I wanted to hold back some to do things that might have cropped up - and this house does need some TLC.
My fault really as my wife fell for this house and I feel so guilty we've not found anywhere yet so didn't point out the things wrong!
As it is now 14:00 on Saturday we assume our offer didn't get anywhere but even the agent's annoyed that these people have
insisted on £20,000 more than the place is really worth and we have given a good offer.
There is another one similar nearby that's asking £235.000 but it's a rental with a sitting tenant!
The next nearest was sold for £193,000 in May and to be honest it wasn't that much lower in standard and it did have a moss-free rough!
Oh well.
At least the standard of house we are seeing is getting better but finding anything where we want to be is proving much harder than we expected. stevmk2