Supply and demand will determine if you get anywhere but certainly try to get something of a discount. No guarantees you'll get anywhere though.
We are buying a second hand house so some issues should be expected I think.
Does anyone have any advice on renegotiating the house price after having your survey completed?
Our surveyor just informed us that there are a few issues, nothing structural, but will have to be fixed to make it livible.
For example, the heating system doesn't even work and will need a new gas boiler. We would probably have to do that almost straight away after moving in - before winter comes along. There are also a few issues with the bathroom which was advertised as newly renovated.
Everyone keeps telling us that we need to try to get money off in light of the issues. I really dont think we will be able to as there were other bidders and we only bid 4k more than the underbidder before they dropped out.
If anything, I feel like we might be able to get maybe a max of 4k, if even. Anything more than that, why wouldn't they just go back to the underbidder? Even 4k I feel like we wouldn't get off because of how the market is. We are buying a second hand house so some issues should be expected I think. Though, the bathroom is not just renovated considering our surveyor told us the toilet doesnt even work.
Do you think we should even bother trying to get the 4k off or is it even worth our time? I don't want to lose the house over it because ultimately the issues can be fixed.
that the buyers of the property had sent him a request for 52 things they wanted repaired or changed or removed from the property before they would complete the sale
the worst that can happen is they say no!
An upstairs bathroom?The floor under the bath is rotton
Yes the upstairs. His reccomendation was not to use it till the bath and floor were replaced. We expected to replace the bath but not the floor. Id still be happy enough to go ahead and just get it fixed because all other houses we looked at had much worse. We are trying to get prices atm.An upstairs bathroom?
What was the surveyor's overall recommendation? The reports tend to be written to protect them, but there's usually a recommendation at the end.
I'd be getting a rough estimate of the costs of things that have to be done, but you didn't expect, and decide if you want to go through with it or not. If you negotiate, be prepared for the seller to pull out.
I wouldn't use the boiler to negotiate - the BER certificate you had access to before bidding would have mentioned that it should be replaced if it's more than 10 years old.
Obviously a seller or a buyer can pull out of a sale at any time for any reason but for "asking" would be a pretty lame reason "demanding" on the other hand....No. The worst that can happen is that they use this as an excuse for pulling out of the sale.
Brendan
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