People on the street: How long do you take to look around before buying a house?
It has been revealed that some prospective homeowners spend less than 20 minutes checking out a home before putting in an offer.
With that in mind, we wanted to hear from the people of Manchester to establish whether they think that sounds about right or if it is shockingly short.
With that in mind, we wanted to hear from the people of Manchester to establish whether they think that sounds about right or if it is shockingly short.
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00:00I'm on my way down to the streets of Manchester to ask people about buying a home
00:03And that's because it's been found that some people spend as little as five minutes looking at a prospective house before they put a bid in
00:09So I want to know if people take longer less time or whether there's something that would immediately put them off or make them
00:15Want to buy a house?
00:16I was trying to find a place and when I told you that it was so hard
00:21I'm just really annoyingly picky. So like I go around I open all the cupboards and like make sure everything's working
00:28So well, I mean it I don't know if it takes too much longer than 20 minutes
00:32So that might be right if you're in it's a it's generally a first instinct thing
00:36I think whenever you're buying that house, you'd love to think we're all different and we'll take forever
00:40But if we don't move somebody's gonna take it ahead of us now because when you go to view your place
00:47Chances are what five or four people already put down a bid
00:51So you have to kind of go in there run around and then go I'm gonna put money down
00:56And then most of the time you won't even get the place in the first place and it's expensive