Agree about the steam definitely been in it for a little while now, I'd been looking for a PPOR properly since the start of the year (watching the market long before that waiting to build finances) and anything decent has been going fast, at or above asking price. I'd call up about places that had just shown up on realestate.com.au and the agent would tell me 'sorry it's under contract, would you like me to call you if it falls through?'
Finally came across a place I really liked that wasn't under contract, maybe because it had just hit the net when I refreshed the Page , convinced the agent to take me through before the first open home, liked what I saw, put forward a strong, fair offer with short b+p and finance clause, owners accepted.
Agent still held open home, so I went along to see how much interest there was. There were about 25-30 there, overheard a couple talking to the agent that they wanted to put in a back up offer that was over 10k above what I had a contract on it for, that made me feel like I'd done the right thing with it.
Finally came across a place I really liked that wasn't under contract, maybe because it had just hit the net when I refreshed the Page , convinced the agent to take me through before the first open home, liked what I saw, put forward a strong, fair offer with short b+p and finance clause, owners accepted.
Agent still held open home, so I went along to see how much interest there was. There were about 25-30 there, overheard a couple talking to the agent that they wanted to put in a back up offer that was over 10k above what I had a contract on it for, that made me feel like I'd done the right thing with it.