Waiting for a buyer... Anyone want to join me?

I'll join this thread.

I had my house listed with an estate agent, end of June to middle of August, who got the listing details wrong on Rightmove and even though I asked for them to correct it several times they still didn't. They also took several weeks to give me a copy of the contract and their communication was terrible. I only had 5 viewings while with them. The estate agents where not right for me so we decided to terminate the contract early.

I took a break for a while and decided to list with a new estate agent end of September. So far I've had 16 viewings, 3 of which were 2nd viewings.

I did have an offer of 9% below asking price and a stipulation of a turn around of 8 weeks from a viewer from the first estate agent who came back for a 2nd viewing with the second estate agent. I said no on both counts.

Hoping to get more viewers in the New Year and hopefully an offer closer to asking price.

cashbackproblems wrote: »

I have to agree with the above my partner is an EA and she has seen recently vendors think the NY will magically make buyers offer closer to asking when in fact nothing has changed and the news recently is next year prices will be flat i.e. offers made below asking. Plus more people will be listing Q1 2016 so more supply. So that 10%-20% offer below asking you rejected, might actually seem quite good in 2017.

Im not a crashist and don't think we will see an overnight crash but its only worth what people will pay and after 20+ viewings its a signal the market doesn't value it as you do. Most smarter people (especially landlords) sold in early 2016 when prices were sky high and no knocked confidence from brexit etc. Now you will not get those levels in 2017, however many agents you list with. Remember these days 99% of contact is made through right move so agent irrelevant

From what I have read of this thread most posters couldn`t process a 20% below asking price offer, they would believe that they misheard or misread I think! There are people here getting annoyed, and refusing, offers of single digit % below, which I find unbelievable in this economic/political climate.

cashbackproblems wrote: »

isn't that what this forum is for, to offer advice based on someones problem they have bought here, or is the advice not something you want to hear?

It depends on the thread.

I contribute to another support thread, where some observers might consider our actions ill-advised, or even against their principles.

If they were to interject a couple of times to comment on what we do, or have done, fair enough.

If they made a point of regularly returning, just to push their particular agenda or snipe at individuals, I'm sure they'd be told to go forth and multiply.

It would probably be acceptable if these theoretical people joined the discussion to recount their own experiences, as that's primarily what the thread's about. However, that would require revealing more about themselves through original input, which propagandists would avoid, as it would surely leave them as vulnerable as the others.