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mclassplanet

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  1. +1 Things have been very quiet on the South Manchester property market over the last two weeks in particular, especially at the low end (almost as quiet as last December). And as you said, what's still for sale is usually overpriced by a fair margin (sellers usually not budging on advertised pricing with several prices being static for well over a year), as well as a lack of real choice. I know of a 1 bed flat in Didsbury that's currently for sale at a premium of £5k compared to the asking price for the same property in 2005 (BBC employee price-gouging perhaps?), and a fair number of properties have either gone SSTC or have mysteriously vanished from sale. One property went SSTC then supposedly came back on the market, but when I enquired about it I was told that it had been sold. Most frustrating.
  2. I may be on the verge of doing something similar myself fairly soon (if I decide to buy a particular property). Last week I suggested to an agent an 'offer' for a property along the lines of saying "I was thinking of offering..." and was met with a very enthusiastic response, but that reaction just confirmed my fear that I had perhaps inadvertently offered to pay more than I wanted to in the first place, partly through a mistaken belief that someone else also wanted to buy the same property. (That could have been an EA manipulation tactic which had consequently backfired due to my cautiousness.) Two days later the advertised price dropped to match my 'withdrawn' offer!
  3. Here's another one that's well worth watching for your own amusement, which I spotted a while back but surprise surprise hasn't sold yet: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-14228586.html £110k for a studio flat in Chorlton. Your eyes aren't deceiving you; that's £110k for a studio flat in Chorlton. For sale since January 2010 according to Property-bee, and I've seen some very nice one bed flats in West Didsbury for similar or less money in the past year. Plus you know that the agent's having an uphill struggle to sell this when one of the pictures features the communal area and the description fails to mention any room measurements which probably means that it's matchbox-sized; witness that kitchen which looks barely big enough to swing a mouse let alone the proverbial cat
  4. Also take a look at the non-estate parts of Bramhall, although it's probably every bit as overpriced as Poynton. Poynton is generally nice but popular, with property prices perhaps yet to return to earth properly after stratospheric rises during the boom years (I think at one point Poynton had the fastest rising property prices in the UK!), therefore property in Poynton is usually overpriced with the exception of a few sellers desperate to sell up quickly, so there may be room for some hard negotiation. Bear in mind that certain parts of Poynton do have a "housing estate" feel to them so check your prospective neighbours carefully before signing on the dotted line, and this advice also applies to Wilmslow (some people think that Wilmslow is overrated anyway). To me personally, Cheadle Hulme is OK but lacks character compared to some of the other areas mentioned, and certain parts are affected by aircraft noise which is something else to check if that sort of thing bothers you. Marple is at least 12 miles from Macclesfield (and hilly in places), with the same also applying to Disley and surrounding areas. The Middlewood Way that runs between Marple and Macclesfield via Higher Poynton and Bollington can be used by cyclists but that gets very muddy in places after rainfall (especially north of Bollington). Bollington would nearly tick all the boxes except crucially for that commute to Stalybridge, because you have perhaps already discovered that Poynton and Hazel Grove can be serious traffic bottlenecks even outside of the rush hour. (There may be "rat-run" shortcuts but these will need to be investigated carefully.) Don't forget to use all of the tools available, including the Property-Bee Toolbar for Firefox, the property valuation guide at Zoopla, crime hotspots courtesy of www.police.uk, and also check upmystreet.com especially for the neighbourhood profiles, although information relating to things such as shopping may not be totally up to date. Also I've found that Google Street View can sometimes be misleading, so it's certainly not a substitute for actually visiting an area for yourself at different times of the day and night. Good luck!
  5. Noticed tonight that the £95k flat now has an offer of £80k: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27499666.html (Of course whether the interested buyer will actually complete the purchase is another thing entirely.) Also of note, according to agents Philip James Wilson - "This block currently has no management company which could limit the buyers subject to mortgage approval", as mentioned here: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-31460276.html
  6. Hello everyone, I've been watching the property market - especially the Manchester area but also parts of the Midlands and South of England - with keen interest for more than a year (and sporadically since 2002). Still deciding whether or not to rent again after both renting and owning property at various times, and this forum has already been a great help in this decision process, namely don't buy unless you see a real bargain
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