Making an Offer: Strategy and Negotiation Script

You have found the place, you are chain-free and mortgage-ready, and now you have to name a number without looking desperate. Give the asking price, days on market, local comparables and your deposit, and you get a negotiation strategy: how to frame the offer, what to share about your position, and the words to use. For first-time buyers about to make their first move.

I want to make an offer on a property listed at {ASKING_PRICE}. The property has been on the market for {DAYS_ON_MARKET} days and comparable sold prices in the area average {COMPARABLE_PRICE}. I'm a mortgage-ready first-time buyer with a {DEPOSIT_PERCENT}% deposit and no chain.

Help me build a negotiation strategy. Explain how to frame my offer to maximise appeal to the seller, what information to share about my position (and what to withhold), how to justify an offer below asking price using market data, and what conditions or requests (fixtures, completion date flexibility) I might attach. Provide a word-for-word offer script I can read to the estate agent over the phone.