just put our business up for sale today
Jan 14th 2009, 9:18 pm
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just put our business up for sale today
how weird does it feels to put something up for sale you have built up virtually all of your life... ??
Jan 14th 2009, 9:20 pm
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
I can guess it must be pretty sad - but has to be done in order to make the move, so all in a good cause!
Hope you manage to find a buyer without too much stress and drama...
All the best,
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Jan 14th 2009, 9:25 pm
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
Thank you Adele, actually, not sad at all, but pretty liberating, only because, we now realise our decision has really been made.... Canada is what we want to try for. I know we have'nt visited yet, but we are on our way, holiday and networking for summer, who knows after that. We have been told that although the market is bad for residential sales, commercial sales seem to be OK (fingers crossed) Everyone is absolutely amazing on this site (some bloody hillarious) dya reckon its OK to say you can get ever so slightly addicted to this site ha ha.
Jan 14th 2009, 9:39 pm
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
Thank you Adele, actually, not sad at all, but pretty liberating, only because, we now realise our decision has really been made.... Canada is what we want to try for. I know we have'nt visited yet, but we are on our way, holiday and networking for summer, who knows after that. We have been told that although the market is bad for residential sales, commercial sales seem to be OK (fingers crossed) Everyone is absolutely amazing on this site (some bloody hillarious) dya reckon its OK to say you can get ever so slightly addicted to this site ha ha.
Hope you get the sale soon - and yes, BE is addictive
Jan 14th 2009, 9:41 pm
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
I love it, I'm positively mad.....
Jan 14th 2009, 10:49 pm
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
My husband has a job offer in Vancouver and will be leaving in March but I've got to sell the house before the rest of us can follow...not looking forward to that....and then I have to sell my business. I can't sell the business before the house as we need my income. I'm still on the bit before when it's not quite real yet..I don't think it will be until one or both of the major parts of our life have sold.
Jan 15th 2009, 1:17 am
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
From today's Evening Times:-
The cost of the average home in the UK fell to a two-year low last November, following a drop of 8.6% over the previous 12 months.
However, falls were at their most shallow in Scotland, where they dropped by 3.9%.
According to the communities and local government department the average UK house now costs £199,732, taking prices back to November 2006 levels, when the average was £199,238.
Property in Northern Ireland saw the greatest falls, with prices dropping by an average 16.2% over the 12 months to November. In Wales prices took a 10.1% dive, while in England they fell by 8.7%.
There was a 4.4% drop in house prices in the quarter leading to November, compared with a 3.6% fall in the quarter ending in August.
Average prices only topped the £200,000 mark in London, the east of England, the south-east and the south-west.
More recent figures showed the falls continued into December.
Earlier this month Nationwide said prices dropped by 15.9% in the 12 months to December, while Halifax said they fell by 16.2%. The figures reiterate reports from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors released yesterday.
RICS said the last three months of 2008 had shown the weakest performance in the housing market for three decades.
Estate agents sold an average of just 10.1 homes over the quarter.
The cost of the average home in the UK fell to a two-year low last November, following a drop of 8.6% over the previous 12 months.
However, falls were at their most shallow in Scotland, where they dropped by 3.9%.
According to the communities and local government department the average UK house now costs £199,732, taking prices back to November 2006 levels, when the average was £199,238.
Property in Northern Ireland saw the greatest falls, with prices dropping by an average 16.2% over the 12 months to November. In Wales prices took a 10.1% dive, while in England they fell by 8.7%.
There was a 4.4% drop in house prices in the quarter leading to November, compared with a 3.6% fall in the quarter ending in August.
Average prices only topped the £200,000 mark in London, the east of England, the south-east and the south-west.
More recent figures showed the falls continued into December.
Earlier this month Nationwide said prices dropped by 15.9% in the 12 months to December, while Halifax said they fell by 16.2%. The figures reiterate reports from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors released yesterday.
RICS said the last three months of 2008 had shown the weakest performance in the housing market for three decades.
Estate agents sold an average of just 10.1 homes over the quarter.
Jan 16th 2009, 10:32 am
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
From today's Evening Times:-
The cost of the average home in the UK fell to a two-year low last November, following a drop of 8.6% over the previous 12 months.
However, falls were at their most shallow in Scotland, where they dropped by 3.9%.
According to the communities and local government department the average UK house now costs £199,732, taking prices back to November 2006 levels, when the average was £199,238.
Property in Northern Ireland saw the greatest falls, with prices dropping by an average 16.2% over the 12 months to November. In Wales prices took a 10.1% dive, while in England they fell by 8.7%.
There was a 4.4% drop in house prices in the quarter leading to November, compared with a 3.6% fall in the quarter ending in August.
Average prices only topped the £200,000 mark in London, the east of England, the south-east and the south-west.
More recent figures showed the falls continued into December.
Earlier this month Nationwide said prices dropped by 15.9% in the 12 months to December, while Halifax said they fell by 16.2%. The figures reiterate reports from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors released yesterday.
RICS said the last three months of 2008 had shown the weakest performance in the housing market for three decades.
Estate agents sold an average of just 10.1 homes over the quarter.
The cost of the average home in the UK fell to a two-year low last November, following a drop of 8.6% over the previous 12 months.
However, falls were at their most shallow in Scotland, where they dropped by 3.9%.
According to the communities and local government department the average UK house now costs £199,732, taking prices back to November 2006 levels, when the average was £199,238.
Property in Northern Ireland saw the greatest falls, with prices dropping by an average 16.2% over the 12 months to November. In Wales prices took a 10.1% dive, while in England they fell by 8.7%.
There was a 4.4% drop in house prices in the quarter leading to November, compared with a 3.6% fall in the quarter ending in August.
Average prices only topped the £200,000 mark in London, the east of England, the south-east and the south-west.
More recent figures showed the falls continued into December.
Earlier this month Nationwide said prices dropped by 15.9% in the 12 months to December, while Halifax said they fell by 16.2%. The figures reiterate reports from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors released yesterday.
RICS said the last three months of 2008 had shown the weakest performance in the housing market for three decades.
Estate agents sold an average of just 10.1 homes over the quarter.
Jan 16th 2009, 10:36 am
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Re: just put our business up for sale today
How does it feel. I've got to do the same thing.
My husband has a job offer in Vancouver and will be leaving in March but I've got to sell the house before the rest of us can follow...not looking forward to that....and then I have to sell my business. I can't sell the business before the house as we need my income. I'm still on the bit before when it's not quite real yet..I don't think it will be until one or both of the major parts of our life have sold.
My husband has a job offer in Vancouver and will be leaving in March but I've got to sell the house before the rest of us can follow...not looking forward to that....and then I have to sell my business. I can't sell the business before the house as we need my income. I'm still on the bit before when it's not quite real yet..I don't think it will be until one or both of the major parts of our life have sold.
Good luck with your house sale.
Mel
