Well as folks may know I've been looking to relocate to Nottingham for work reasons and have spent the best part of two years commuting back and forth whilst keeping an eye on the market.
I've been especially looking to the east of the city, as this is the area my family are in and I've owned property there before so know the good and bad areas.
For anyone who knows Nottingham, Netherfield has been turned around in the past three years and, due to the previous lack of development it is a haven of Victorian two and three bedroom houses.
Unfortunately a recent incident of mindless gang violance that put a work colleague's brother in hospital (after he ventured out to the local chippy late at night) has put me off the area...that and the fact that every so-called 'property developer' seems to have descended turning around two bed terraces and expecting top dollar for their 'work'.
Up until last week we were faced with a wall of sellers not prepared to even negotiate on their asking price.
What a difference a week makes!
We have found, and had our offer accepted on a place just over the railway line in Carlton that we will get for 3K less then the vendor paid for it 4 years ago.
A small start in the HPC I know. But it gets better.
3 doors up is the exact same type of house, immaculate throughout but with a vendor that told us he knew his property was worth every penny he was asking as he declined our offer three weeks ago.
We got a call from his EA on Friday asking if we were still interested, and telling us he is now happy to negotiate.
We told him we'd had our offer accepted on the house three doors down, and, if he can match that offer (£90,000) we were still interested.
Watch this space!!