Owning your own home

I was chatting to a neighbour a few months ago who was selling his house. He was very happy as he marketed it on a Wed for £475k, had an open day on the Sat which 22 buyers attended and accepted £480k on the Monday. Further down the line he's gone, to let signs are up and the sold price is £400k on Zoopla. WTF? No way he had £80k knocked off and I have heard of people paying £10k 'for the sofa' to but £80k? Does anyone have experience of this? Thinking of you Jeez.

Zoopla error. He was lying. Massive structural problem that he did not know about and buyer negotiated the price down. Who knows

Either that or the saucy cunt of a purchaser "chipped" the price on the day of exchange and to avoid the rigmarole of having to go through with finding another purchaser, the vendor just took the reduction on the chin and proceeded.