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Can you negotiate new construction?

Wife and I are looking at new construction $660,000 home. The builder offers a $5000 bonus if you either use their lender, or use your own lender and get $5000 towards appliances. Currently it only needs a fridge and washer dryer. Our agent said if we use our own lender, we can get them to price match the $5000 lender bonus (which they already agreed to do), and then we can also get the $5000 appliance credit from builder.

I’m guessing we won’t be able to negotiate the home price, but what else can we negotiate? It does need a fence and some landscaping. Is that something that would be negotiable? What about wiring up specific floodlights I want on the front and rear of the house? I’m not trying to be greedy but what else should we do?

One last item is the builder wants to see our current house we are listing. They want to see the condition (it’s great condition) and the listing price. Is this normal? They would do a walkthrough of the property and home in person before or just after we list. My agent said once we list the builder would likely take it off the market for us. This seems odd, but normal? Buying the new construction would be contingent on selling our current home.

Thank you all.

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