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How To Avoid being Gazumped
You’ve made an offer on a property. You might have had to negotiate a bit, but that’s OK because this is your perfect home and you can’t wait to move in. You then get a rather awkward call from the estate agent to say that unfortunately the seller, (whom you took to be a gentleman) has received a higher offer from another buyer.
It appears...
June 2022 Market Comment from David James
Helping you make better-informed property decisions.
Here is our colleague Richard providing you with our latest thoughts on the property market.
The press has been full of mixed messages about the property market, especially during and after both Brexit, the pandemic, and the unexpected ensuing property boom. Will the market rise, will it fall, is it a good or a bad time to move? There are so many variables, but one thing is sure - current buyer demand suggests that confidence levels remain high. So, once again, we find ourselves in...
As the internet has become the first port of call for most prospective buyers, estate agents can feel somewhat swamped! The issue is not a lack of enquiries, but which of those enquiries will turn out to be serious.
This is because many estate agency websites are simply an invitation for buyers to register on-line, yet all too often this results in huge numbers of poorly...
Many sellers who receive a good offer for their home turn it down because they have not yet found “the right property” and worry that they will in effect become homeless should they sell first (although we have never known this to happen!)
Of course, the problem would become a self-fulfilling prophecy if everyone were to take this stance, and...