[thewoodies]

update - now we have dropped another £10K :wah the agent has come round and taken more pictures now my plants are at their best and the sun is shining! Lets hope we can sell - we will put capital in bank and let it earn us interest while we decide if and when we want to buy oh yeah! and where!!!!:raebanana

Somehow i cant see us selling and we will be renting but its worth a shot :D

- im so excited we have a date to go and there is so much to do - the down side is one of the grandparents is making me feel lousy and selfish - it just makes me want to get away i feel smothered!!!! I have also got to make it up with my mum who isnt speaking to me - basically im taking her grandchildren away - how she can be this selfish i dont know? - after all she did it to her parents!!! when we were kids we moved to a pacific island and in those days there was no skype, telephones were extremley expensive so we used to just get letters.!!!!!


Just got to ride it out , at least there is so much to sort out i cant dwelll too much on things:uhoh

[Belmont Babes]

Hi the woodies. Sure amazes me sometimes how some Parents can do this. My Mum always said that you have to give your Children "roots and wings".
Stick with it and all the best :yes

[Mels]

Really feel dejected today, made the mistake of reading newspaper headlines of dire doom and gloom. :wah

Mels

[JandM]

roots and wingsLovely expression. Couldn't agree more.

[vixxann]

- im so excited we have a date to go and there is so much to do - the down side is one of the grandparents is making me feel lousy and selfish - it just makes me want to get away i feel smothered!!!! I have also got to make it up with my mum who isnt speaking to me - basically im taking her grandchildren away -

Just got to ride it out , at least there is so much to sort out i cant dwelll too much on things:uhoh


this so rings a bell with me, haven't heard from my parents since I told them we'd booked the flight :no
I do see their side of it but why cannot they see ours?? (and they may be their grandchildren but they are OUR children) :(

Just keep smiling and think of stepping onto that plane! (or maybe you should skip the 24hr flight and just picture stepping off it onto NZ soil!!)

[thewoodies]

we are breaking our journey with a stop in LA so we can go to DIsney etc -thanks i will just focus on that.:)

[IanR]

haven't heard from my parents since I told them we'd booked the flight

Tell them that their grandchildren will have dual nationality and the ability to come and go to the UK, Aus and NZ when they are older.... after a good education that may be, in this very uncertain world, one of the best gifts you can give them...

[victoria24]

awaiting viewing feedback nervously....

[nickydwuk]

We have been lucky and have got a buyer, we have had the survey done - all good so far. But now things seem to have ground to a halt. The agents seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth - the office I call has diverted their phone to another office who do not have our file. They keep taking messages but I never get a call back. I have just spoken to our solicitor who says they have been chasing the buyers solicitor since the beginning of June for their 'enquiries' regarding the contract but have heard nothing. We are at a standstill. We need to exchange within the next 3 weeks (we are in the process of buying a property in NZ and need to exchange) but I can't do any more. I just want to go round to the agents office & the buyers solicitor and give them both a kick up the back side. Don't think it would help the situation but it would help me :D

[Mels]

It is all just soooo frustrating. Sending cyber hugs Nicky.
We have maybe two people interested, one wants to put an offer in but can't sell theirs and the other seems keen but we don't know if anything will come of it.
AAgghhhh

Mels

[nickydwuk]

No wonder they say that moving house is one of the most stressful things in life. I thought the whole emigrating process would be stressful but that has been a doddle compared to this!!!

[Janey]

Just caught up no viewings no interest not sure a drop in price will make any difference seem to be spending more of my time driving the length and bredth of Cornwall for stupid meetings hate my job HAD ENOUGH GET ME OUT of HERE! (rant over feel better now) cyber hugs Nikki
Mel ditto!

[victoria24]

nicky, just remember that all these people work for you!

[Belmont Babes]

Cyber hugs to you all. I log on daily in the hope that someone gets a breakthrough. Blinkin POZIVIBES again X

[thewoodies]

no big rush - now we have dropped the price -its now a bargain !!

still smiling:D

[Rusty]

Good luck to all fellow prisoners of Limboland.
We have not had anything for 4 weeks. The agent said they used to do 40 viewings over a weekend and last weekend they did 2 !!!!! He has been an agent for 30+ years and is saying he has never experienced anything like this and just does not what to do - well that helps.
So, we are now signed with 3 letting agents in the hope we can rent quicker and try to sell next year from NZ- just means I will need to get a job quicker, but at least we will get to NZ. :nice1

[vixxann]

Nicky - sorry to hear about your UNsmooth process - what a pig :( hope things improve from you soon - you get kickin some nether regions girl :p

good luck and massive posivibes to everyone else
its not long since I was in same position and I know how awful it is , each and every day - but just keep going... waiting for that one and only buyer that you need. (and that's sincerely meant not just blah blah blah you know!)

..
by the way..
we do consider ourselves very lucky to have sold now but even more so when I saw today that our old next door neighbour has now put her house up for sale :uhoh I really don't think we'd have sold at all if there'd been another house on our street up at same time. phew! good timing for us anyway!

[victoria24]

viewing update.. loved the house.. more than the one up the road which is on for 40k more! but... dont like steps!!! FFS....

[Kerry and David]

The people who want to buy our house have a positive viewing booked in for Saturday - whatever that means - just can't get excited about it anymore - I second the fact that the house selling part is the most stressful:wah

K x

[vic11]

Well we had the estate agent out to value the house last night. The value in order to sell was so much lower than we expected, that even though we would have liked the capital to go with, we are now looking at renting it out for a few years, and trying to ensure we have jobs lined up. At least my sister already lives in Auckland, so will break the bad news to her, that we will be living with her forever! :laugh (OK maybe not!)
Well the good news from all of this is, if we get it rented out we hope to be heading off to Auckland in September/ October time! Yippeee!! :nice1

[adkck]

Hey all,

Like someone else wrote, I think selling the house is more stressful than waiting for an ITA!! LOL

We had more viewings, since the last time I wrote here, maybe 8 or so more viewings. No bites!!

We are still trying be optimistic and keeping our fingers crossed! :yes

I am crossing my fingers for all the sellers out there. :nice1

[thewoodies]

we have got a second viewing tomorrow :raebanana better get hovering!!!!and dusting!!!! and gardening!!!!

She hasnt sold but is bringing her mum:confused:

will let you know

[Red Devil]

We've still got the 'carrot dangling in front of us' scenario with regards our farmhouse in France... the English couple who have viewed it twice now are still awaiting their mortgage offer from the French Bank before taking matters further :roll

Trouble is, we're keen to reduce it by €20,000 to get a definite buyer before the end of Summer, but French agent is still wishing us to hold fire until he's heard back from the French Bank re. English couples mortgage offer... frustrating or what :mad:

Even resorted to putting a classified add on eBay the other day :D

[dusk]

glad you found the silver lining in that cloud vic11 :)

best of luck with viewings and banks everyone else ;)

[JayBee]

New skill: turning positives into negatives.....

No viewings today.....just as well as they won't see the boarded up windows from an attempted break in!!!

"Err, no not a good time to ring"....mr other estate agent chasing our business....avoids telling them that I was in the middle of giving a statement to the police and scenes of crime were collecting glass samples!

Hmmm......very, very secure property in a desirable area.....( yes two other properties in the road broken into in the same afternoon)

get me out of here......!!!!:wah:wah

I know it happens everywhere....but you just dont need it!

[Mels]

Jaybee I am so sorry. I am sending big cyber hugs.

Mels

[Red Devil]

JayBee, that is awful... hope better things go your way :yes

[JayBee]

Thanks guys, at least I don't have to worry about medicals etc. so I'm off for a large glass of wine and whatever comfort food I can find!!

[nickydwuk]

Thats nothing, Jaybee, a few weeks ago we had a prospective buyer due round, about 20 minutes before my son was trying to help and lit the oil burners. He threw the match (after he had blown it out) into the dustbin whereby the heat from it caused some polystyrene to catch a light. The viewers turned up just as the fire brigade left. But they have asked to come back - as we have sold we said no !!!!

Furthert to my earlier whinge - I have finally contacted the agent who has said that the mortgage offer has come through but that the buyers have now gone on holiday for 4 weeks - aaaaargh:wah It seems that they all (their solicitors included) got confused and thought that as we wanted to COMPLETE in September it meant that we didn't want to EXCHANGE until September. The agent will contact them as soon as they return to get exchange sorted.

[Mels]

the buyers have now gone on holiday for 4 weeks - aaaaargh:wah It seems that they all (their solicitors included) got confused and thought that as we wanted to COMPLETE in September it meant that we didn't want to EXCHANGE until September. The agent will contact them as soon as they return to get exchange sorted.

AAAAggggghhhhhhhh :wah


Mels

[Red Devil]

It does make you wonder what planet some people are on... especially solicitors :mad:

[thewoodies]

jaybee thats awful - it would make me want to move :yes hope your feeling better

[Red Devil]

I don't wish to get too excited, but I've just had a call from our French agent... he's just received a copy of the English couples mortgage offer from BNP Paribas and hopes to hear back from them either today or over the weekend with regards the offer they have in mind for our farmhouse.

I posed the question to our French agent exactly how many properties are they interested in... "just yours, they wish to leave England as soon as possible" :D

Needless to say my mobile will be close to hand over the next 48 hours... wish us luck :uhoh

[Rusty]

I don't wish to get too excited, but I've just had a call from our French agent... he's just received a copy of the English couples mortgage offer from BNP Paribas and hopes to hear back from them either today or over the weekend with regards the offer they have in mind for our farmhouse.I posed the question to our French agent exactly how many properties are they interested in... "just yours, they wish to leave England as soon as possible" :DNeedless to say my mobile will be close to hand over the next 48 hours... wish us luck :uhohGood luck. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck.

[Red Devil]

More, more, more... bring it on!!! :D

Cheers Rusty :nice1

[dusk]

fingers crossed RD :)

[Alan]

Good luck, hope you get that happy call.

[victoria24]

Bon chance Mon rouge ami

[sweet pea]

More, more, more... bring it on!!! :D

Cheers Rusty :nice1

sending good luck your way and lots of it too!!

[Red Devil]

Merci mes amis, je l'espère d'avoir de bonnes nouvelles sur lundi :D

[Mels]

Good luck, fingers and toes crossed

Mels

[Andy-Dee]

Right back at you with bells on Red Devil, all digits crossed here for you, this thread gotta be due another sale soon - and its certainly not happening here!!!!


Good luck, good luck, good luck

[nickydwuk]

Useless at french but good luck anyway :nice1

[Red Devil]

... that's where 'Google Language Tools' comes in handy ;) :laugh

[victoria24]

i did mine from my school french memory.. if only i needed to find the way to the nearest market!!

[Red Devil]

Signing off for the weekend now... wishing you all the very best of luck for positive viewings this weekend.

à bientôt :)

[TrentBridge]

Good luck Red Devil. Hope its good news for you this weekend.
:)

[peebles16]

Okay this thread need a kick up the rear-end so am going to send a wee kiwi fairy over to show our fairy how it's done :yes Maybe some nice pics of NZ will coax the fairy into getting her finger out :) Andy-Dee could you PM your address and you can start the kiwi fairy travels - what do you think??

Thinking of you folks and posivibes as ever

Karenx

[Andy-Dee]

Up for anything at the moment - address on its way!!

[Mickstim]

Good luck Red Devil. We are looking forward to hearing some postive news on this thread.

Karen - love your idea of a Kiwi fairy. That's gotta do the trick!!

Bx

[peebles16]

Kiwi Fairy will be reporting for duty very soon :laugh

Karenx

[Belmont Babes]

What a flippin good idea Karen.
Red Devil, all crossed for you. Best of British ;)

[cathgates]

Kiwi fairy good idea - uk fairy didn't bring me any luck, it was nice to see pics of everyone though:)

Cath X

[Andy-Dee]

Cathgates, Janey and I are probably the last of the old gang on here now. So its comforting to see that the majority of folk who have had the fairy are now in NZ. Wouldn't it be great if the fairies were still going years from now -they would of course need their own suitcases (and passport for the Kiwi fairy) but I'd like to think they would still be giving hope to newbies.

[Rusty]

Cathgates, Janey and I are probably the last of the old gang on here now. So its comforting to see that the majority of folk who have had the fairy are now in NZ. Wouldn't it be great if the fairies were still going years from now -they would of course need their own suitcases (and passport for the Kiwi fairy) but I'd like to think they would still be giving hope to newbies.I wouldn't mind some Kiwi fairy luck - been here since Feb :wah

[thewoodies]

I wouldn't mind some Kiwi fairy luck - been here since Feb :wah

Me too!!! had 2nd vieiwng yesterday - havn't heard from agent re feedback - so called (after all i busted a gut to clean the house!!!):laugh

No one in the office knows anything as it her day off today!!!! Great service
(NOT):mad:

[Rusty]

Me too!!! had 2nd vieiwng yesterday - havn't heard from agent re feedback - so called (after all i busted a gut to clean the house!!!):laughNo one in the office knows anything as it her day off today!!!! Great service(NOT):mad:Its not like they have a lot of work to do anyway. You would think that everyone in the office would have been waiting for that person to get some feedback, after all, she probably had the only viewing this week.

[Kerry and David]

I wouldn't mind some Kiwi fairy luck - been here since Feb :wah

Me too :wah

K x

[TrentBridge]

I really feel for all you guys trying to sell. A very stressful time at the best of times. Posivibes to you all and keeping everything crossed for you :)

[JayBee]

Kia Ora, Kiwi Fairy:clap:clap

Good luck everyone - hope the weekend is especially positive for Red Devil

Nickydwuck - lets hope your solicitor gets that exchange sorted before your son tries to be even more helpful:laugh

Meanwhile I have new windows and the police have charged someone with what sounds like 18 break ins (just over a couple of days I think).
Our road looked ridiculous yesterday with 3 glazing company vans parked along it at various intervals!

Anyhow, decided that to get different results you need different action so gave notice to current agents and will try the next lot. (who asked "what were all the police doing down your road, the other day!!!)
Positive vibes everyone.....................

[victoria24]

"well mr unqualified lying toerag agent.. the police had come down to present us with our neighbourhood watch award" if it works for them, you can try a bit of posi-spin!

at least your five-oh turn up, my lot took 4 days to investigate the vandalism of my car as they were too busy due to it being a friday night!

[nickydwuk]

Nickydwuck - lets hope your solicitor gets that exchange sorted before your son tries to be even more helpful:laugh :laugh :laugh

Meanwhile I have new windows and the police have charged someone with what sounds like 18 break ins (just over a couple of days I think).
Our road looked ridiculous yesterday with 3 glazing company vans parked along it at various intervals! Are you sure the culprit was not working for the glazing companies??:roll

[Alan]

Well our proposed sale fell through with the bottom of a three person chain, who was a supposed investor then deciding he didn't like it and want to take £30,000 of instead! Anyway back on the market and today three viewings one of which sounds very hopeful indeed, but good luck to everyone.

[Kerry and David]

Alan - feel for you, our house sale has fallen through twice now. Fingers crossed for some positive news from your viewings.

[Genie]

I just popped in to see who has sold and what is happening for you all. Sounds really frustrating for you all, so sorry to hear how the market isn't picking up as soon as hoped.

Posivibes to you all, hey at least you have sunshine to help you sell. Yesterday I threw my first ever summer snowball!! Good luck to all with viewings. ++++

[catt]

Just back from a week in the Forest of Dean ......what glorious weather.......catching up on threads. Sorry to hear about your vandalism Victoria and your ongoing saga Nicky, good luck Rusty and everyone who is still in their trying to flog their houses.

We came back to two viewings while we had been away still awaiting feedback ...........fingers crossed but not hopeful.

[5kings]

Sorry folks, have read a lot of this thread, but not all of it!!

I wondered is anyone selling a small low priced house? We have a 3 bed mid-terrace, which we bought for a massive £32K 9 years ago, and at the minute no houses are selling in our area.

As we have no savings (3 kids, a dog, a hamster and 2 guinea pigs being the reason!!) we need to sell in order to make the BIG move to NZ. We are hoping for about £125-£130K for the house, which sounds like peanuts compared to some of the other messages in this thread, but enough for us to pay off all our debts, and have a good start in NZ.

Is anyone else trying to sell a similar property? Ours is not on the market yet, still decorating and saving for new carpets/kitchen etc.

Helen

[Peter&Liz]

Been a while since we posted, so I thought we would post a wee update.

We are now 3 months on the market, so far we have had 18 viewings from 12 separate parties, read somewhere that the average property now takes 19 viewings to sell so hopefully we won’t have to wait too long for a real buyer.

We had one hot (estate agent term for someone who can actually buy rather than window shop) offer so far that was £65k under which we rejected.

We have two parties very keen on the place but they are either waiting on a buyer or their chain has not formed, both have put in offers £25k. Which is a lot better until you think really it is like virtual shopping it’s not real until they have a buyer and know how much cash they have to spend.

It had gone quiet for a few weeks and I was dreading the estate agent phone call when he would yet again try and get me to drop the price, but we had 4 viewings this weekend. Two of which were second viewings from what I term as real buyers i.e. those who can complete rather than someone who has put their home on the market or in some cases not even at that stage.

We have as yet not dropped the price for a few reasons, one that we seem to be getting a fair amount of activity, two everyone in this market will be looking for a discount whatever the price and three that our ITA has been diverted from destination please come and stay in NZ to the Medical Assessor on account of Liz having a cholesterol level of 6.2. It’s delayed the process for us by about 8 weeks between getting her doctor to write a massive 1 paragraph (3weeks multiple phone calls) and then to wait on the medical assessor to come to a decision (5 weeks so far).

Been a bit like limbo land here for the last month or so, hoping NZIS MA will get back next week either way @ least that way we know where we stand.

Peter

[Andy-Dee]

West Sussex seems to be a hot bed of activity - good luck - dead as door nails up North.

[IanR]

If you want the real nitty gritty from the housing coal face I recommend the RICS housing market survey published each month by chartered surveyors and valuers... this is May's and June's will be out any day now... and will probably be even more negative :(

http://www.rics.org/NR/rdonlyres/1A968DE7-0013-41DE-816F-D6C967CCEDAA/0/RICSHousingMarketSurveyMay2008.pdf


.. if you scroll to the bottom you may well be lucky enough to find comments on your own specific area...

[nickydwuk]

Sorry folks, have read a lot of this thread, but not all of it!!

I wondered is anyone selling a small low priced house? We have a 3 bed mid-terrace, which we bought for a massive £32K 9 years ago, and at the minute no houses are selling in our area.

As we have no savings (3 kids, a dog, a hamster and 2 guinea pigs being the reason!!) we need to sell in order to make the BIG move to NZ. We are hoping for about £125-£130K for the house, which sounds like peanuts compared to some of the other messages in this thread, but enough for us to pay off all our debts, and have a good start in NZ.

Is anyone else trying to sell a similar property? Ours is not on the market yet, still decorating and saving for new carpets/kitchen etc.

Helen

Our house is a 3 bed mid-terrace too. Built in 1930's. back in January we were advised to put it on for £175k and told we would probably get £170k. Withing a matter of weeks we had an offer of £167k from a 1st time buyer' that we accepted. Sale fell through as she couldn't get a mortgage - this was March/April. Immediately put it on with other agents but as the prices had dropped a lot we had to drop ours to £160k. Had loads of viewings and ended up with 3 offers all for £155k shortly after it went on the market. All 1st time buyers. One droped out but the others proceeded. We are now down to just the one as one realisewd the repayments would be too high. It seems that we were in the ' 1st time buyer' area of the market at the lower price and the type of house. Admittedly we could have redecorated more to attract more people but it worked out ok in the end (as long as the buyer returnes from hoiday SOON and signs the blooming contract). I think the smaller, lower prioced houses are selling a little better than the slightly more expensive and bigger ones. Not many people are upgrading but lots are ookiong for 1st homes or rental properties to let. Good luck.

[victoria24]

i would agree. where we live there is a house called a "statham house" which is a three bed semi and they go for about 150-160. whatever is going on in the market, there is always demand for these and they always sell if priced correctly within that banding.
wish i kept mine now to sell rather than this hoofing great noose we currently live in!

[Red Devil]

Morning all... no phone call or contact from French agent over the weekend, however the English couple did only receive their mortgage offer last week so probably just me being impatient :roll

Still, as the saying goes... no news is good news :rolleyes:

Hope to hear something positive this week... best of luck to all others in the same position :nice1

[Janey]

A wet windy Summer? weekend no viewings at all (only 4 since last September) Sussex does seem to be a hot spot viewings would be nice if it takes 19 viewings I will be here until I retire! oh Monday morning blues!:no

Can I have the Kiwi fairy after you Dee We have our open home this weekend so far the weather for the week looks terriable it would be nice to get out and clean windows! or tidy the garden this looks more like autumn at the moment leaves and twigs everywhere they we keep trying to clear between branches. Whats more depressing is I have had a NZ agency email me today with a fantastic job and they are interested in me good but can not do anything fell like the anchor chains are getting tighter! going to make a coffee now as WFH da no chocolate in the cupboard!:mad:

[Hejwitch_uk]

Had our first viewer yeaterday - anxiously awaiting feedback :uhoh Been on market for 2 weeks, so it was a good start. Lovely family who looked at 5 houses in the area and now having difficulty choosing between 4 of them. Their house is on market, but they're not dependant on a sale! 25% chance it could be ours they choose! I know the chances are that they'll choose another, but wanted to put up a post with at least a bit of good news...... fingers crossed for all of you too :)