Big weekend of house hunting planned? Here are our tips to ensure the process isn’t painful
Finding houses to buy is easy. Finding the perfect house to buy that suits the specific wants and needs of everyone who’ll live in it is the real challenge.
But there are a number of ways to ensure that your house-hunting journey ends with a property that everyone can be happy with.
1. Call us and get your pre-approval sorted (of course!)
It’s best to know what your budget is and how far you can go, there is no point falling in love with your ‘dream home’ and not being able to afford it – it will only ensure you are disappointed with everything else!
Also with the market moving as fast as it currently is, you need to be able to act quickly and have everything in order.
2. Communication & compromise
It seems simple, but if no one is willing to budge on certain details of their dream home, you’ll still be searching for a place to live when the rest of us are driving electric cars and having robots do our gardening.
3. Get the inside word
Register with local agents who can give you an instant heads up when a suitable property crosses their desk.
4. Relocate your perfect location
In the current property climate, getting everything you want from a house in the location you want it is an increasingly challenging proposition. Add in your partner or future housemate’s ideas on where the perfect place might be and you’ve got a one-way ticket to a giant real estate roadblock
5. Size isn’t everything
Can you live without land? If a huge block is something you or your co-inhabitants are prepared to sacrifice, your options will open right up.
