
‘Offers over’ means the seller is looking for bids above the stated price, which is usually set below the property’s Home Report value to attract more interest. How much you need to offer depends on demand: with strong competition, buyers tend to bid the price up; with little interest, offers close to the asking price…
With the Edinburgh property market picking up here’s our advice on how much you should bid when you are looking for your dream home. Over the last year, demand in the local property market has been on the rise. More homes are going to closing dates, buyers are making higher offers and more properties are achieving,…
What Makes a Good Offer and How Should I Know Whether to Accept It or Not? Sellers often ask our Property Negotiators what they would consider to be a good offer for their property, and whether they should accept it. So, how do you answer this question?
‘Offers Over’, ‘Offers Around’ and ‘Fixed Price’ are the three main methods of pricing your house for sale in Scotland in today’s market. With every house sale being unique, the best pricing system for each property depends on a number of factors. Can we look at changes in the number of properties using these asking…

‘Offers in the region of’ (or ‘offers around’) means the seller will consider offers either above or below that price, unlike ‘Offers Over’, which only allows bids above. This is meant to signal that the seller is more open to negotiation. How much to offer depends on demand and competition for the property, as there’s…
Quite simply, this is the amount of money that the seller is asking any potential buyer to pay for their property. However, to complicate things, buyers put prefixes in front of the asking price. For example: “Offers Over”, “Fixed Price”, “Offers Around”, or “Offers in the Region Of” and even “Offers Under”.
What Is Offers Over? Offers over is… Where a property is being marketed at Offers Over, it is less clear what price a seller hopes to achieve than where a seller is marketing the property at Offers in the Region Of or Fixed Price. For that reason, buyers tend not to be the greatest fans…
‘Fixed Price’ is one of pricing prefixes that you will come across if you are buying or selling a house or flat in Scotland. The general perception is that if a buyer offers the full fixed price then a seller will accept that buyer’s offer. However, it’s not quite as simple as that and this…
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