Need advice for quick sale please!!

DianneB

Hi Karen, Looked at the link for your house and can I cheer you up by saying it looks lovely, nice all round with lovely views! I also saw there are at least two similar houses in the postcode going for higher prices. I don't think you can keep on reducing till you feel you are giving your house away! Your EA knows your area and will have advised you accordingly an unsold house makes no money for them either. Good luck, keep trying, I hope a buyer comes along very soon!

Blackpool_Saver

karenthemummy79 wrote: »

Do you think it looks cluttered?? I dont - Do you think it isnt neutral?? I do.

Kerb appeal is a difficult one because there is only so much you can do to spruce up a 3 bed semi - to be honest the house does look nice outside with the block paving and the wall with the rails - I have added some extra pots since the pic was taken and the flowers are lovely and colourful now! What else can I do the the front?!

Hi karen, to be honest there are several links on here and I am not sure which is your house, please can you direct me to the correct link to look at your house then I can answer that.

Any smell of cigarette smoke?

I have done up many properties and sold them, I would like to help you if I can.

sirhan_sirhan

karenthemummy79 wrote: »

Quick question for you all - My FIL has had his house up for sale for years now and has reduced it from almost 300k to 199950 (an old 4 bed detached cottage opposite the school in the same village) - he has viewings but the property needs totally done up now so he hasnt had any offers.

It is being sold as part of a divorce settlement but if he sells he would buy this house!! he has said it numerous times!!

Is there any way around this that I am missing?! He has no mortgage at the mo and with his savings would maybe need to borrow approx 20k to buy this house but is there any physical way of him buying this house before selling his? But then that puts him in the same risky position that we are in I guess. I am just trying to think of a way! He is on the market with the better, more expensive agent and although he does get viewings has still had no offers. I suppose we only need one of the two to sell to sell ours if that makes sense which increases our chances right?

Interesting position. I can't come up with something off the top of my head that rids you of house number two, but there are other things that you might want to consider.

Presumably there will be an inheritance tax consideration at some point. Is FIL's estate likely to be split several ways, or would you and your husband be sole beneficiaries?

Is there any way that your FIL could gift you say £20k of your inheritance, then buy your house, selling you his for the cost of yours plus 20k?

Sale prices of each property could be at knock-down prices, in order to lessen the impact of stamp duty, and perhaps also the divorce settlement too. No EA involved, so several k saved there by your FIL too. You would need several EA valuations to back-up the agreed prices, so as to prove that nothing untoward is going on; but this should be easy enough to achieve if you advise the valuers that you want a quick sale, point to previously achived prices (as shown elsewhere on this thread), and make noises about structural concerns that you have(!).

Still eaves you with 2 properties, so you are little further forward, but could save your FIL a tidy sum.

karenthemummy79

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

Hi karen, to be honest there are several links on here and I am not sure which is your house, please can you direct me to the correct link to look at your house then I can answer that.

I have done up many properties and sold them, I would like to help you if I can.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-21925294.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E5631&maxPrice=150000&pageNumber=1&backToListURL=%2Fproperty-for-sale%2Ffind.html%3FsearchType%3DSALE%26locationIdentifier%3DREGION%255E5631%26radius%3D0.0%26displayPropertyType%3D%26minBedrooms%3D%26maxBedrooms%3D%26minPrice%3D%26maxPrice%3D150000%26maxDaysSinceAdded%3D%26retirement%3D%26partBuyPartRent%3Dfalse%26_includeSSTC%3Don%26sortByPriceDescending%3D%26primaryDisplayPropertyType%3D%26secondaryDisplayPropertyType%3D%26oldDisplayPropertyType%3D%26oldPrimaryDisplayPropertyType%3D%26oldSecondaryDisplayPropertyType%3D%26newHome%3D%26auction%3Dfalse%26x%3D85%26y%3D13

karenthemummy79

My EA is going to wonder what on earth has happened when they get their report of how many people have viewed my house on rightmove!!!!!!!!!! lol

GracieP

caljoemor wrote: »

You sound really unhappy with the agent, if this is the case you need to consider switching or at least putting it on with another agent also.

I'd seriously recommend switching rather than dual agenting. Whenever I see a house online which has more than one agent I see it as a sign of desperation and delusion on the point of the vendor.

I do agree that it may be time to change agents as a good or bad agent can actually make a difference. There are some EA's that I have had bad experiences with, or have heard of others having bad experiences with, and in a buyers market I would not deal with them. If I was particularly interested in a property I'd consider writing a letter to the vendor telling them I liked their property but wouldn't deal with the EA. But if there were other similar properties I wouldn't bother. There are two EAs working in the area I wish to buy in that I will not deal with under any circumstances and at least 3 that I would be wary of.

On the other hand a good EA can make a difference. When we sold our house we sold to a buyer who had been sale agreed on a property which was taken off the market by the vendor before exchange. Luckily that sale had been organised by our EA so in the same phone call that the EA informed our buyer that their sale had fallen through he orgnaised for her to come and see our house and she put on an offer straight away. The EA was the most expensive in the area, but I do believe that the agent got us a price higher than we would have gotten without them which more than covered their extra charge.

Blackpool_Saver

Will look and get back to you.

GracieP

karenthemummy79 wrote: »

do you think it is too confusing or that more pics help?

I think more pics help, but I'd get them re-done so the changes aren't obvious. Not everyone uses property bee, but by having photos taken at different times you are letting the buyers see that the property has been on for quite a while. I was looking at a house recently and the photos had christmas decorations in them. Straight away I thought that house has been on for ages, the vendor is either desperate or unrealistic. It was on an Irish website that the agent favoured as it blocks property bee, but the pictures told me everything I needed to know.

dopester

karenthemummy79 wrote: »

hehe!!! was waiting for someone to 'spot the difference'!!! there is one other difference aswell!!! new carpet!!! The black tv photo is more up to date but I wanted one adding from the other angle but we thought the other angle looks bigger so kept it on there too - do you think it is too confusing or that more pics help?

Ahh ok about the carpet. I thought it might be just change in light.

I'm no expert at what you're asking.. but can't you move bits-and-piece over to your new house? Stuff like family photos and frames on walls, cd-rack, stuff on the fireplace, that broom material near the tv, the chair in the corner and table+lamp... if you haven't done already.

Then take new photos.

franklee

karenthemummy79 wrote: »

Quick question for you all - My FIL has had his house up for sale for years now and has reduced it from almost 300k to 199950 (an old 4 bed detached cottage opposite the school in the same village) - he has viewings but the property needs totally done up now so he hasnt had any offers.

It is being sold as part of a divorce settlement but if he sells he would buy this house!! he has said it numerous times!!

Is there any way around this that I am missing?! He has no mortgage at the mo and with his savings would maybe need to borrow approx 20k to buy this house but is there any physical way of him buying this house before selling his? But then that puts him in the same risky position that we are in I guess. I am just trying to think of a way! He is on the market with the better, more expensive agent and although he does get viewings has still had no offers. I suppose we only need one of the two to sell to sell ours if that makes sense which increases our chances right?

Well you refurbished your own house, so could you help his sale by refurbishing his?

So you move into your new house, he moves into your current house. Then you refurb his to give it the best chance of selling. Divvy up the costs/refurb profits.

If it doesn't sell then he can move back or stay in yours whichever seems most sensible at the time.