Current Home Owners Hoping To Move To A Bigger House, How Are They Affected By the Current Position Of The Housing Market
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Current house owners with enlarging families are slap bang in the centre of the property crisis happening in the UK at the moment. Buffeted by the lack of first time buyers from the bottom end of the market and hampered by the lack of choice of bigger homes up for sale, upgrading to a larger house and gaining more space for the family can be a issue.
The lack of first time buyers; their unwillingness to step on to the ladder and the difficultly they have in securing a home loan means that the likelihood of the family locating a purchaser for their small starter house are remote. Even if they can actually get a buyer for their house the variety of houses to move to are constrained as all but the most anxious to move stay put and wait out the recession. One can be lucky though and find the ideal property, but watch out chains are considerably brittle at the moment, vendors and buyers being scared by the situation and pulling out of deals at the very end due to nerves.
One course of action where the home owner can make the most of the market (without any worries as prices are level or reducing) is to sell their starter home and take a rented opportunity. If this route is taken they will find themselves better able to bargain, being more like the first time buyer and making much reduced offers. If the seller requires a quick property sale a great deal can be had, possibly even leaping a few rungs of the ladder due to their need to sell house fast and a huge lack of other buyers.
Of course those who purchased their first house at some point over last 2 or three years could find themselves with the same problem as the first time buyers. The tricky job of getting a mortgage without having 25% figure to put down is a real issue and those who have bought recently are much more likely to be in this position.

