No viewings for 3 weeks

petunia100

despite the house being in a highly sort after area and on at a realistic price.

I can understand that people may not like the house after a viewing, but to not even get the viewings is worrying.
I wondered if it is due to the election and if anyone else has also experienced this in their area.

shane42

a link? might help

Running_Horse

What does realistic mean?

Put it on for £1 and you will sell. Put it on for a million and you won't.

Somewhere in between is a price that will get viewers through the door.

tyllwyd

I've been thinking the same thing - I posted about a week ago to say we'd had our house on the market (more or less coinciding with the election) and nothing, and a week later we've still had no viewings at all.

Another house came on at the same day with the same agent and has already had an offer - but that was for about £170K and needs doing up. Ours is £330K and in good condition. Either we've got the price wrong (over £300K is definitely the going price for this house in this area though) or perhaps people are out looking for a bargain, but not ready to commit to a more expensive house? Our logic is maybe the price is a bit high, but it isn't that unreasonable so if there were buyers out there they'd come & look and make a low offer.

keith969

Several possibilities:

- your particulars put potential viewers off. Are the photos good, is there a floorplan along with a decent description?

- the price may be realistic for you, but not for potential viewers

- your EA is rubbish and is not pushing it. Is it on Rightmove?

maya+2

we've had no viewings either, the house has been on for four weeks we reducded it by 7,000 still nothing. We had four EAs value it and its currently on at the lowest valuation of 149,000 the highest being 170,000:think: sigh

surreybased

Hi,

I think there is a slow down, on house buying, following the election. Perhaps people are waiting for budget news however people do still need to move/relocate so there is always a market.
My friend has just had an offer accepted on her place.

What does the EA say?

googler

tyllwyd wrote: »

Another house came on at the same day with the same agent and has already had an offer - but that was for about £170K and needs doing up. Ours is £330K and in good condition. Either we've got the price wrong ....

How much 'doing up' would it take to bring the £170k one up to your spec? Would it take £160k of work? That's what I'm mentally computing.... 330-170 = 160

If it needs £20-30k of work, that suggests yours is worth £190 - 200k, perhaps....

dianah

is it possible your ea has a full schedule?

the house we're buying, we managed to get the first viewing in the same week purely because we could go when they were showing the place to someone else - it's only a small cottage so we viewed when the first people were done.
had to wait a week to get the second viewing though - you'd think they'd want to do a second viewing with cash buyers as soon as possible - especially as the property had been on the market for quite a while - but they were just too busy.

could you get one of your friends to try and book a viewing? just so you know what response the ea gives...

gemmalouanna

We changed EA last week after our sale fell through last month and we felt the old EA eased off.

The new EA has said the market is very slow and was better before Xmas so think it may just be that.

Can you change EA? Certainly glad we did

Cissi

petunia100 wrote: »

despite the house being in a highly sort after area and on at a realistic price.

I can understand that people may not like the house after a viewing, but to not even get the viewings is worrying.
I wondered if it is due to the election and if anyone else has also experienced this in their area.

This probably isn't what you're hoping to hear, but that doesn't seem to be the case around here (SW London). The market seems to have gone completely crazy in the last couple of weeks! There is still very little available which explains why some houses are selling really fast and for unbelievable prices. Our friends put their house on the market last week, for 10% over the highest EA estimate - everyone (me included) thought they were barmy. They got 10 viewers on the first day, 5 second viewings over the next few days followed by a number of offers including one that they accepted (almost asking price, buyer with nothing to sell). It's almost like in 2006/07 :eek: Makes me relieved we bought last summer!

I have no idea what part of the country you're in, and to be fair Greater London isn't typical for what's happening elsewhere, but I still suspect it's down to one thing: price. That's usually the case if you aren't getting any viewers at all...