Buying a new house.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Hire "an expert" to go over the house (constructionwise) when you find one you are serious about. It's worth the expense.

You should do that anyway as a contingency to buying the house. If anything is out of order or broken, you can bring that to the seller and make them pay for it, or lower the price of the house.
In this market with few available buyers, they just might do that.

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Just useful hints, tips, and pitfalls.

We have a set budget, and have nearly half the house cost as deposit. Our main worry is location, and the current financial situation. When you're plowing €150,000 into a piece of property, we don't want to lose a percentage of that in negative equity. As far as locartion goes, it's just trying to find a place in our budget that is in good idstance to amienities.

Check out the schools in the area, make sure they are good.

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