Had the offer accepted on my first house after a year and a half of looking.
Haven't found a house I really liked since I was overbid on one outside of what I could afford last year. This one goes above and beyond what that house was so I'm really pleased it never went through.
Pre-surveying I don't think iot really needs any amount of working doing to it and I can move straight in without having to do much of anyting. It does need pointing doing outside but I feel I'll be able to have a pop at that myself borrowing my brother in laws scaffolding for a week sometime.
I bid 113k expecting to come up to 120k but when I got in touch with the bank for a DOP the bank told me I could only have 99.5k which threw a big curveball in having only around £16k in savings it left not a lot or anything to kit a house out. My bid got rejected and so I said rather than keep bumping up I will just give them what I could afford based on the current DOP and offered 117k which was accepted. I was able to get a 90% mortage for 117k shopping around so I will now have funds left over for items in the house which is a massive bonus as I had an intention of saying with my parents for maybe 6 months still and only paying the mortgage to help save up some more funds.
I was also hoping for a couple more months of living with my parents to build up a few more grand but it seems the current owners have been proceeding on with buying a property whilst selling this one, so their new home is currently empty aso the sale may end up being relatively quick which I;m excited about regardless.
It is ideal as it is next to a reasonable sized forrest so great for walk, hikes and biking
https://www.martinco.com/property/for-sale/417957