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  • We put our 1 bed house in Camberwell on the market last Thursday eve at what I believe to be a pretty keen price (25k lower than what an identical house sold for in February). In the past year we’ve had the house rewired with a new consumer unit, totally revamped our garden, and last week had the whole interior of the house painted. It is the closest thing to a turn key property I’ve ever seen.

    There have been 8 viewings so far, and 1 each of the next 3 days. One person has said they planned to make an offer (although that’s coming up on a week ago now), and one had a handful of questions.

    What I find funniest is that 2 viewers have said the house is too small. What does one expect of a 1 bed freehold house for 375k in Camberwell?

  • What I find funniest is that 2 viewers have said the house is too small. What does one expect of a 1 bed freehold house for 375k in Camberwell?

    Then again, some places more spacious for the given sqft than others.

    I sold my house last year which was on the sliproad to the A102. Plenty of people said it was too noisy. Yep - because where else do you get a 3 bed house in SE10 for <500k unless it's on a shit road.
    Had about 30 viewings in the first fortnight. Almost everyone said too noisy, the other two made offers.

    It'll just be people figuring out what they want for their money and whether location beats size, and the only way to do that is to view some places.

  • Sounds like the stamp duty holiday isn't papering over the cracks in the property market then.

  • We repeatedly had people viewing the flat and then saying the kitchen was too small. Obviously it was on the floorplan but I think plenty of people aren't really able to translate that into reality.

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