00:00How long do you spend thinking through your financial decisions before you make them?
00:07Well, if it's popping for a coffee or adding a sweet treat to your weekly shop, probably
00:12not a lot. But what about those bigger purchases? Research from the property site Zoopla has
00:16found a fifth of prospective home buyers spent less than 20 minutes looking around a place
00:21before putting in their offer. If you find that surprising, some said they put their
00:25bid in after less than five minutes. The average, though, is 49 minutes. It comes as
00:30housing market experts are predicting a rise in buyer demand over the next few months.
00:35But it comes alongside fears the number of homes on the market may not match it, causing
00:39potential buyers to act more quickly to secure their purchase. The chief economist from the
00:43Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Simon Rubinson, said significant challenges
00:48lie ahead. After their monthly report, predicted surveyor activity will speed up in the coming
00:53But what about you? What's the shortest amount of time you'd spend viewing a property before
00:57putting an offer in? And would you put an offer in sooner if you thought there were
01:01others in the running?
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