no worries - i get to pick these things up working in the estate agency area LOL hence why i know the estate agents that Fudgeass is buying his house through

 

Weehay nice one mate.

I remember when i got me first house for 64k...Sold it 6 months later for £85k heh

My current house was bought for 230k in 2001 and now its worth 550k woooooo

 

whats the best way of finding out about new developments in your local town??

Council
Estate Agents?

 

Drive about and look for the piles of bricks!


Seriously though, how about going onto the main developers websites such as persimmon or something like that.

Yea the council may know also.

 

cheers for the comments guys

mike is there anything i should know about castles lol??

 

fudgeass,

no they're very good

 

sweet, just rang em to say we got the solicitor all sorted now so they can take the house off the market

 

bastards, after our offer of £124k was accepted, some other fukkas offered more, so we had to give the full asking price

not impressed

 

Sucks mate.

 

yeah, were trying to get him to leave loads of stuff now lol

 

I thought they had put an end to all that gazumping ???

 

nice1 matey, i bought my house about 2 years ago, best move i ever made!

 

well rather than allowing yourself to be gazumped try "gazundering", let everything go through as planned and a week before your due to complete say you can only give x amount (your original offer maybe), 90% of the time they have no choice but to accept unless they want to lose the house there buying!
Not sure how you go about the paperwork etc-best to ask the guy who posted who works in estates- i know its feasible though as we know someone who did it a few months back and saved a few k.

Tricky

 

Nice one

I bought my 2 bed flat for £90k just under 3 years ago, just about to put it on the market for £140k

Was an ex-council place that badly needed renovating so done over the past couple of years.

 

TrickyDicky,

ive heard about this too mate, and well, no harm in trying lol...

 

Well done mate with the buy, you must be chuffed as you have posted a few downer threads lately what with work and the missus' clio, pleased for you

Hopefully buy over here in the next few months but we rent about 100 metres from the beach so not a lot of incentive! Also get a first home buyers grant from the state and another from the Government which is handy.

Good luck with it all

 

cheers mate, it has put a smile on my face lol!!

and hopefully my car will be running tonight too!