Our endeavours to buy a house continue. We’ve just heard from our solicitor that, with the closing date for offers having passed, we were some way short of the top offer.
We’re relieved to be honest. Illegal internal adjustments are a problem for the future, and we didn’t really want to have purchased a house that - should a building inspector turn up - would loose a lot of its value if the adjustments were ordered removed.
Our offer was about 22% over the “offers over” figure. The winning offer was 37% over. Having had a less than glowing survey, we know ourselves that the house was not worth that much even with the internal work being acceptable.
What it has done is prove to us that the housing market here in Scotland is every bit as buoyant as it was a couple of years ago. I had thought it quite depressed, given all the news about falling house prices. But bring a decent-ish house to market, in a nice area, and prices will remain competitive. So much for a housing market crash!
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