Making Offers on Houses

[Borris-Bear]

Just wondering, generally, what people are finding is a normal offer on a house at the moment is 10 - 15% below asking considered fairly normal?

what sort of offers have you been getting on your property?

[Borris-Bear]

we're having a second viewing of a place on Sat priced at 360k. Found out the property next door sold in Nov 2007 for 360k (though it doesnt have an extension that this one has) makes me think the property is a bit over-priced in the first place.

Was wondering if we decided that it was for us that maybe going in with a 310 - 312 was taking the pee.

[Borris-Bear]

how do you go about getting it valued independantly?

[Borris-Bear]

We're in a fairly ok position having bought our current house about 4 years ago reasonably cheaply as it was in need of major renovation. Managed to do all the work ourselves with family help so still have reasonable equity in the current house.

The move is to find our, hopefully final, family home so i guess it doesn't matter too much if prices come down as long as we can afford the mortgage. Just dont want to pay over the odds for it.