To those selling in these difficult times Part Deux. AKA sellers support network!

Fingers_Crossed_3

Oh Lordy got an improved offer this morning at the absolute minimum we'd accept! Rang our mortgage company to do an affordability check on just my husbands wage, as I've only been in my employment 6 weeks and we're going to visit 3 houses over today and tomorrow which are in budget.

If we're happy with any we're going to accept the offer on monday. Is this officially the best week to sell a house or what!!

Markdn

PottyHouse wrote: »

Welcome !!!

Well the good news is you are definitely having lots of viewings for the amount of time you have been on the market !

Fantastic that you have had 2nd viewings and even better you have had offers ....

Shame some of those viewings/offers are from by what appear to be "morons" ... well you can't have everything I guess !!!

Stick with it - it should get better ..... you'll see from on here some people have been experiencing this now for well over a year - I myself have been on the market for about 14 months now and we are now proceeding with our 5th offer so 4 weeks is nothing (sorry to say) !!!!

Thank you Potty and everyone else for the warm welcome :grouphug:
Well a quick update...

Viewings are still quite steady, think we are in the mid 20's now, but no more offers

But heres a strange one, got my first "3rd Viewing" tomorrow :huh:
Never heard of that before, but fingers crossed as I believe they are a FTB, Mortgage in principle and large deposit.

Good luck everyone and i'll let you know how i get on...

azkaban420

Fingers_Crossed wrote: »

Oh Lordy got an improved offer this morning at the absolute minimum we'd accept! Rang our mortgage company to do an affordability check on just my husbands wage, as I've only been in my employment 6 weeks and we're going to visit 3 houses over today and tomorrow which are in budget.

If we're happy with any we're going to accept the offer on monday. Is this officially the best week to sell a house or what!!

Oooh how exciting, it's nice to hear so much positive news on this board, hope the luck rubs off onto others...like me!

azkaban420

Markdn wrote: »

Thank you Potty and everyone else for the warm welcome :grouphug:
Well a quick update...

Viewings are still quite steady, think we are in the mid 20's now, but no more offers

But heres a strange one, got my first "3rd Viewing" tomorrow :huh:
Never heard of that before, but fingers crossed as I believe they are a FTB, Mortgage in principle and large deposit.

Good luck everyone and i'll let you know how i get on...

Hi Mark, good luck with the third viewing, must mean they're very keen, fingers crossed for an offer soon

azkaban420

monkeys_bunny wrote: »

i do feel slighty sorry for the Estate Agents, and its only slightly, but i know a few people who have changed agents a few times to get 'fresh eyes' and they still dont get anywhere, the thing is (and this is just from my point of view in my town) but there are just not the buyers out their, the agents all basically use the same sites etc and in our town are all in the same place so buyers basically walk from one window to another in a short space. So basically what im tryin to say is that its not always the EA's fault, sometimes its just that there are not enough buyers out their for them to suggest my house to.

of course some are better than others and we went with the 2nd best in our town as i dont like the attitude of the top selling EA and they are only a couple of sales apart, but basically i think they all use Rightmove etc and if a buyer wants to see my house then whether im with Estate Agent A or Estate Agent B it really doesnt make that much difference at the start

Hiya MB, I'm afraid I'm one of those who has gone multi-agency to shake things up a bit, but also so that both agents are promoting the property, rather than rubbishing each others due to competition. I'd rather have them BOTH on our side.

As an update, we have 3 viewings today, all with original agent. Nothing from new one yet, which original ones seemed very happy and smug about lol. I don't mind, as long as they all put in the extra effort to try and sell it. Here's hoping we have some good news soon...

Az

heygringo

We are now into our 6th week & not a single viewing. The EA has even said that they can't understand why that is, as they have sent out our details to relevant searchers, also what they call "block ads" in the paper have been placed, as opposed to the usual ad that EAs list.

SWMBO & I have discussed the option of changing EAs when the 12 weeks are up, but logically, I can't see the point, as much as I'd like to give them the boot. My reason for this, is that people looking for the house that meets their criteria, will be, (A) searching the 'net, & (B) checking all EAs in the area. So switching from one EA to another doesn't really make sense. Reading of Vendors on this forum who have had lots of viewings, only makes me feel more frustrated, (SWMBO is simply taking it in her stride, which isn't very long, as she is only a short ar.. erm! person):rotfl:
But then again, lots of viewings & in some cases, no takers/offers, sort of cancels out all our positions, so it's as broad as it's long. I'm not sure which position I'd rather be in, viewings, but nothing coming of them, or no viewings at all.

What's the opinion of the EA comments I've uttered?

daisbuys

heygringo wrote: »

We are now into our 6th week & not a single viewing. The EA has even said that they can't understand why that is, as they have sent out our details to relevant searchers, also what they call "block ads" in the paper have been placed, as opposed to the usual ad that EAs list.

SWMBO & I have discussed the option of changing EAs when the 12 weeks are up, but logically, I can't see the point, as much as I'd like to give them the boot. My reason for this, is that people looking for the house that meets their criteria, will be, (A) searching the 'net, & (B) checking all EAs in the area. So switching from one EA to another doesn't really make sense. Reading of Vendors on this forum who have had lots of viewings, only makes me feel more frustrated, (SWMBO is simply taking it in her stride, which isn't very long, as she is only a short ar.. erm! person):rotfl:
But then again, lots of viewings & in some cases, no takers/offers, sort of cancels out all our positions, so it's as broad as it's long. I'm not sure which position I'd rather be in, viewings, but nothing coming of them, or no viewings at all.

What's the opinion of the EA comments I've uttered?

Maybe a price drop is in order?

But would give it another couple of weeks before you do that, as looking at the trends of reductions they all average a reduction after 3 months of marketing.

Maybe you could put your link up here so other members can see what could be changed if anything?

daisbuys

I may as well jump on the thread.

I have just put mine on market, a FTB 2 up 2 down for 99k in the Swansea area.

Been on since Wednesday, no viewings yet but really early days, especially looking at other sellers on here.

If I fail to get anything after 5 weeks as in viewings/offers I will give my current EA their 21 days notice and then change to an online estate agent (housesimple), where they only charge 0.5% of sale price and also advertise on Right move as well as Findaproperty.
Current EA only advertises on Findaproperty, so feeling short changed already but this is my fault as I didn't ask which web sites they advertise on.
Would be a saving of £1500 if it sold through the online agency so won't be to dissapointed if nothing comes of the high st agency...

elona

Our house now shows up on rightmove as "under offer" :j

Yesterday the board outside our house was changed to

"Sold stc" (imagine a puzzled smiley).

Is it worth phoning the EA to get it changed to "under offer" in case our buyers own sale falls through?

Think we might have identified a suitable rental place as our buyers are talking of moving in by end of May :eek: but far too soon to commit to rental as no word of survey etc yet.

heygringo

daisbuys wrote: »

Maybe a price drop is in order?

But would give it another couple of weeks before you do that, as looking at the trends of reductions they all average a reduction after 3 months of marketing.

Maybe you could put your link up here so other members can see what could be changed if anything?

My post number 2720 :eek: shows that the asking price we have set ie £159950 is 10K below the EAs valuation. You can set your price too low, which then makes the situation worse, as buyers then think there's a problem with the property, when all you want to do is to get a sale.

On the HIPS info sheets, both the Environment (CO2) Impact Rating & the Energy Efficiency Rating are within 2 points of optimum attainment.


http://www.reedsrains.co.uk/properties-for-sale/semi-detached-house-for-sale-bent-lane-leyland-pr25-sale-id-200216052


I've also got it on 6 Freebie property web sites, (plenty of clicks) the EA & Rightmove.

Short of hiring a 'plane to tow a banner round the County, there's not a lot more I can do. :rotfl: Our next door neighbours Son is looking to find a property mid-way between where we are & Lancaster, his SWMBO works in Lancaster, he works here in Leyland. He was telling me, they have looked at 29 properties & put offers in for 5 of them. Yeh gads:(