Moving house can be funny sometimes, but is often stressful people looking for houses for rent in many parts of the United Kingdom encounter a new obstacle in their hunt for a House.Owners, or more often their rental agents increasingly require potential tenants to compete by "sealed bid" offers for the House they want.
Practice is relatively common in the market to buy houses, but it is considered a new development in the leasing sector.
Demand for rented property is on the rise during the drought of the mortgage.
Many families and individuals more found that they cannot afford or obtain mortgages, so they have to compete with them to obtain a lease.
"Chance".Jacqueline Cooper and her fiance James Fleming are a young couple professional was confronted to the suddenly at a crossing of Taplow Berkshire when their owners decided to sell.
The couple as lucky account has only managed to rent a small terrace with a garden in Windsor nearby house.
Finally, they won the aftermath of losers on several occasions other home seekers, all hunt each property available in the region.
But to win, they first put an end to a deposit and to make a bid sealed and all against a time limit fixed by the rental agents.
Jacqueline Cooper and James Fleming said that they were losing out on propertiesJacqueline even had not had time to see the House before that they had to bid - it had to rely on the opinion of her fiancé.
It stressed that it was not only the price offered in the bid counted scellé.Le couple put in a bid to the asking price and have a small dog, they were told was sometimes preferred owners for a couple of young children.
"We had seen a few properties that we truly loved, but lost because that others were faster off the coast of the brand that we were", she says.
"If this time we simply agi.Je had not yet seen the property myself until we paid the deposit and put it in our bid pricing demandé.Rétrospectivement, I guess that it was a little risky - but we now have a House."
CompetitionAgents say sealed bids may only be requested where there is intense competition to offer limited properties.
It is more likely to be in areas where the first time buyer or others cannot obtain mortgages and must keep rental .c ' is also a market rental price increase response.
London experienced higher rents rising, but other regions beyond pas.Plus one-third of surveyed by the National Association of owners said they were owners see rents higher in the country of Wales, Scotland and the North West of England.
Research should be published Monday by the site property RightMove Web should find that 55% of tenants have been "trapped" - Please leave the rented housing, but be unable to do so.
James Moss, Director of Curzon Investment Property, said that without access to funding, buyers could not buy houses."Combined with the increase in student fees and job losses in the public sector, and what we're left with is to be a nation of tenants as dream of buying House is eroding," he said.
Richard Davies, head of Chesterton Humberts rentals said that there is no mystery in sealed bid process.
"If we offer for a property, what we do is give a deadline for people to submit their best and finale.Toutes offers these offers go to the owner who decides that go with", he said.
"But even if your offer is rejected, don't be too discouraged, because sometimes the references of the winning bidder check out step, in which case you may be offered the property".
"Right".Owners insist sealed bids are not a device to obtain tenants at gazump each other and to pay more.
Chris Norris, National Association (NLA) owners said they were mainly employed by management or letting agents and used to ensure that once an offer is accepted, it is final.
"Sealed bid is considered a fairer option, in a situation where a homeowner may agree that a lease in good faith to another would be tenant to come along to say they are willing to pay 20% more,", he said.
"Many owners could be tempted to make such an offer, but that is not just about anyone who thinks that found a place to live."
Jacqueline Cooper and her fiance James Fleming, happily unpacked groceries in their new house in Windsor, and books they admit that they have sympathy for the families with young children that they have seen at various screenings in the region – people frozen in the tendering process.
It seems that the current state of the market of housing, sealed bids is here to stay - as many potential tenants are with hunt a decrease in rental offers good homes.
