don544

hi
has anyone dealt with national home buyers or similar company? they value your house and put in a below market offer. i wandered if any one had experience of how low in percentage terms the may offer.
cheers, Dom

Jonahs_mummy

Dont even bother! Our house is valued at £94K & they offered us £65K!!!!!!!!
Same goes for www.a-quick-sale.co.uk

I know other BE members had similar experiences - PM Rooksie!

don544

thanks for that, i thought it would be a low offer, but thats taking the p**s!
all the best, dom

Rooksie

yup!! they offered us in the region of £130k and we were on the market at £187k!!

WTF????

don544

cheers rooksie, think i will give them a miss!
dom

Need 2 Move

Hello - my friend signed up with a company like this, it turns out that when she signed the contract, they acted like an estate agent and she ended up in the same situation she would have done if she would have put on the market :scared: they do a bridge type purchase which holds them over till they sell it themselves. Yes they do have buyers as they are selling cheaper, as the houses are bought cheaper.

B WARE!
angela

spottydog

I would say don't bother. Check out this thread from money saving expert's forums which discusses them and experiences of people using them.

don544

thanks all above.
will NOT be using home buyers!! just have to hope a buyer comes along.
cheers,dom

highboy

If you are thinking about using the homebuyer site's that offer on average 30% off the asking price, why not just drop the current asking 15% with your EA and i am sure the place will be snapped up.

Wendy

We've just dropped our asking price by £2k today. Hopefully someone will want to buy it now it's less than £95k.

highboy

£2k is a small drop if somebody was not interested in £97k i am sure that it being £95k won't help much, reading lots of other posts on here it is best to do 1 big cut (10%+) and get it sold rather that lots of little cuts that keep the house on the market for months and months and months.

Wendy

Ours is the only3 bed house in the area selling at less than £115k. Unless you count the flats down the road that is. So I'd say £20k less than everyone else is quite a good price.

highboy

Why hasn't it sold then, there must be a reason? Is it on the net, post a link to it.

Wendy

Well I'm blaming the estate agent here as I haven't even had a vieing for two weeks. We registered with them on Jan 24th, we got a sign put up on 15th Feb ( 3 weeks and 5 phone calls later ). They got the details on the Ad wrong, so that had to be redone which took another 2 weeks (how hard is it to retype on a PC??). The first week we were advertised without a picture, the second week we got 3 viewings, 2 had already bought something else Last week there was NO ad at all in the paper, not just of my house but NONE at all.

We thought by putting it in at less than £100k we would attract some viewers at least, the reason we've dropped £2k is just so that we can advertise as being reduced. Hopefully it will work. I have told the Estate agent that if we don't have any interest in the next two weeks we will be withdrawing it from their office and going somewhere more central.

highboy

£100k for a 3 bed sounds cheap, where in the Uk is it?