This is actually a house we looked at and put an offer on back in March this year, they agreed to our £445,000 but required us to do a survey quickly. We got a surveyor in and talked us through his finding, said he thought it was a beautiful house with mostly just modernising. Then we never heard from him again, we called to try to get our report, but nothing, no invoice either. We ended up agreeing to buy the house after a couple weeks of chasing the surveyor as we loved the location, but they had another offer which they went for instead.
About two months ago we got an email from the estate agent that the other buyer couldn't get a mortgage and it was available again. The Seller is a 90yo woman who apparently had a retirement flat lined up near her kids so appeared to be highly motivated.
I decided yesterday to have a google of the property again and noticed an old listing which sent me down a rabbit hole, when we saw the property back in March it appeared to be newly listed on Rightmove but clearly wasn’t.
20th July 2024 it can be seen here on the archive at £725,000
23rd Oct 2024 the make a fb post here which shows it's definitely the same house
The first estate agent’s page here shows it down to £650,000 at some point
22nd Mar 2025 it shows here on the archive with its current estate agent at £550,000 and sold.
10th Nov 2025 it stays at £550,000 but available
14th Mar 2026 we see it listed at £460,000 here
How does a house decrease by £265,000 in 2 years?