British take houses to pieces after the sale
Lately owners of the sold houses in the Great Britain have started to clean once their property thoroughly, taking out even such “integral” things as kitchen sinks and built-in lamps, or request additional money from the buyers, writes aboutproperty.co.uk. This way sellers try to compensate falling of the prices for real estate.
Surveys carried out by company Convex show, in the first half of 2007 60% of sellers were ready to leave to the future tenants curtains, jalousie and various lamps, 45% were ready abandon refrigerators, deep-freezers and washing machines. In second half of the year, when prices began to fall, only 35% of sellers were ready to include these subjects in the price of the house, and now this figure has decreased to 24%.
Former owners took away the things, which can’t be taken without damaging of the house. For example, according to the rules lamps can be dismantled, only if they do not spoil a ceiling. “Certainly, everything can be taken away, even bulbs,”- say in Convex.
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