Ten ways to close the deal on your hard-to-sell home
Once you’ve made the decision to put your home on the market, it’s natural to want it to get snapped up without delay.
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Once you’ve made the decision to put your home on the market, it’s natural to want it to get snapped up without delay.
While cases of gazundering have fallen across the property market since the start of the year, one in five sellers are still being lowballed by their buyer having previously accepted a higher offer. This is according to the latest research by property purchasing specialist House Buyer Bureau. The survey of
Average house prices rose by 1.1% in October, compared to a fall of 0.3% in September, according to the latest Halifax House Price index. This monthly rise breaks a run of six consecutive monthly falls however prices remain some 3.2% lower than this time last year and down 1.9% on the previous quarter. A typical UK
Gazundering - when buyers lower their offer at the last minute - is becoming more and more common amid a turbulent property market.
The lacklustre pace of new builds is often cited as a cause of increasingly unaffordable housing and exorbitant rents, but over £200billion worth of liveable property sits unused in England alone.