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Your right to prod, poke and look under things
Graham Norwood talks to somebody who spent £425,000 on a one-bedroom Putney apartment after viewing it for just 15 minutes. Not so unusual: the average buyer spends just one and a half hours on the biggest expenditure of his or her life - less time than they spend researching a computer purchase. In this instance, the story is that Norwood's interviewee works for Garrington Home Finders, Phil Spencer's homesearch company. She wasn't exactly practicing what her boss preaches. So Phil Spencer walks Anne Cuthbertson through a proper home viewing, prodding, poking and getting "in the zone". it's a great read, and useful, too.
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When I bought my flat the market was so frenzied I knew that if I didn't make an offer almost immediately I would n't get it anyway. Prodding and poking's okay - but if you're only finding small problems what are you going to do? Negotiate the price when you know they can sell the place to somebody else easily anyway? And if it's a big problem it'll come out in the survey.
Posted by Sally at
June 13, 2007 9:33 AM
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