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

Sphynx

Whoop whoop! sales progressor says two weeks!!! I need to start packing lol. I have been burying my head in the sand a abit as it all seemed a bit unreal, but now it looks like I could be in new house in a couple of weeks! Wondering whether to ask for measuring up visit?

Fay

Hi everyone, can I join in? We have had our house on the market for 4 weeks now and had 6 viewings plus 2 cancelled ones. The EA's are pretty poor with feedback, 2 we have never received any from, 2 they said 'really liked it' and when we chased this they told us they had brought other properties, one apparently is thinking about a second viewing-but she viewed the first week it went up and we had a second viewing yesterday but no feedback. The majority of this feedback has been because I've called them and asked. I have called about this second viewing this morning and been told it was arranged at their other branch so they would find out and get back to me in an hour, that was 2 hours ago!

So, any tips on getting better feedback from them? This is about the 10th house we have sold between us and neither of us have had such poor feedback responses before

Chiaroscuro

Another week and not one viewer. I'm four weeks into a six week sole contract and can't decide whether to dump the EA I'm with altogether at the end of the six week period or whether to inform them I want to change to a multiple agency. I'm considering writing to them and saying that if they can't fix any veiwings in the next two weeks I'm willing to keep them on as long as they don't increase their fee. Is that a viable thing to propose?

Chiaroscuro

Sphynx wrote: »

Whoop whoop! sales progressor says two weeks!!! I need to start packing lol. I have been burying my head in the sand a abit as it all seemed a bit unreal, but now it looks like I could be in new house in a couple of weeks! Wondering whether to ask for measuring up visit?

Congratulations. I'm sure they wouldn't mind you going for a measuring up visit.

Chiaroscuro

Fay wrote: »

Hi everyone, can I join in? We have had our house on the market for 4 weeks now and had 6 viewings plus 2 cancelled ones. The EA's are pretty poor with feedback, 2 we have never received any from, 2 they said 'really liked it' and when we chased this they told us they had brought other properties, one apparently is thinking about a second viewing-but she viewed the first week it went up and we had a second viewing yesterday but no feedback. The majority of this feedback has been because I've called them and asked. I have called about this second viewing this morning and been told it was arranged at their other branch so they would find out and get back to me in an hour, that was 2 hours ago!

So, any tips on getting better feedback from them? This is about the 10th house we have sold between us and neither of us have had such poor feedback responses before

Hi and welcome, Fay. I'm pretty new here myself, but it's already become a good place to come and have a bit of a whine and to sympathise with others. It's even better when someone has some good news.

No tips for you I'm afraid, I'm just envying your six viewings in four weeks.;)

In all honestly I think if I hadn't been in touch with the EA they wouldn't have contacted me at all. Then again if there's nothing to report I suppose they're not going to ring me just to tell me that!

myhouse_2

vet8 wrote: »

I think that you and shupufski are over simplyfying things here.

This does not apply to us now as we have lived in our house for years, but in the early 1990s when the base rate reached 15% :eek:and our mortgage payments more than doubled over three years, we realised we could not afford the house, so put it on the market. We had bought for £194,000 and put it on for £190,000. I did not mind that we would lose a bit, I was just keen to get shot of the unaffordable mortgage, BUT I knew we could not go much below £190,000 as any lower and we would not have enough deposit left to buy anywhere else.

So I made that very clear to the EA. We had one offer of £175,000 which we just could not afford to sell at. We would have been lucky to afford a flat with the deposit we had left, so we took the house off the market and struggled like mad for years. In fact, we have never really got over the struggle which is why we are selling now.

People genuinely can get into a situation where they CANNOT sell, not from greed, but because you need somewhere else to live and you have to have enough money left to pay for that. Where I live it costs more per month to rent than pay a mortgage. A one bed flat, unfurnished costs at least £600 pm. A 3 bed house about £1,500. Paying rent is just suicide so those who can't sell their houses for as much as they need will not sell.

That is why I think all this talk of house prices tumbling drastically is unlikely to happen as those who will only sell at a huge loss just cannot afford to sell, so they won't, they will stay put.

Well done for sticking it out - that's usually the best thing to do if you can. But if you had to move house to take up a new job, or the bills were unmanageable even with an extreme tightening of belts then what would you have done?
There are plenty of sellers who don't need to move, but it's the ones who really need to move that drive the market down in a poor market.

beeswax_3

Well we've been on the market for almost a week now - and nothing, not even a sniff of a viewer. Feeling a bit despondent already. I hate this selling business.

tyllwyd

beeswax wrote: »

Well we've been on the market for almost a week now - and nothing, not even a sniff of a viewer. Feeling a bit despondent already. I hate this selling business.

Trouble is, you'll already have guessed from this board that things are sloooooow in most places at the moment, and personally I can't see why they would suddenly pick up in the summer holidays - all any of us can do is not get down about it, just get on with our lives and fingers crossed something will turn up.

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We've mentally taken our house off the market for the summer - it is still listed with the estate agent just in case lightning strikes and someone wants to view, but we aren't expecting it. We're doing some DIY at the front of the house, and the master plan is to get it looking nice for a few weeks time so we can get the EA back to do some new pictures because we've never liked the one of the front. Maybe we'll drop the price to go with the new pictures - haven't made a final decision yet, we'll see how we feel at the time.

monkeys_bunny

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Latest viewer said they don’t want house cos the garden is not child friendly What?!? Yes fair enough if your not keen on slate chippings then just replace them. Pic was on sales particulars very clearly. I give up!

beeswax_3

tyllwyd wrote: »

We've mentally taken our house off the market for the summer

Sounds like a good plan. I didn't even bother tidying up before going to work today - seems like a waste of energy if no one is going to come and view.

I knew that it was slow, but houses in my village have still been selling, some within a week! I thought we'd have a few interested people and so having had nothing at all has taken me by surprise. The last time we tried to sell I think we actually caused the property crash . So we eventually took it off the market and waited until now because things were looking better (ha ha). Anyway, I'll just sit and wait for the phone to ring. Keep smiling:rotfl:.