Must get this house sold!! :-(

poppy10_2

willing2learn wrote: »

I would appreciate anyone with any advice or experience, we just want the house sold yesterday!

Do you have a rightmove link?

PasturesNew

Could your mum do swapsies and buy her buyer's house?

Could she pay cash for it from the equity in her current house?

willing2learn_3

FATBALLZ wrote: »

If you want it selling you need to drop the price. By the use of the words 'beautiful' and 'lovely' in your post and the fact you've been on the market 2 years it sounds extremely likely you have overpriced the place meaning any interest will be very infrequent.

If it had been correctly priced it would have sold ages ago.

Thanks, she dropped the price down to £180,000. Originally it was valued at £210,000. It's a 3 bedroom semi detached...

The agent's think it is at a bargain price, but i'm willing to listen to any advice. Other similar houses are higher priced in the area...it's hard to know what to do - but i'm listening.

willing2learn_3

poppy10 wrote: »

Do you have a rightmove link?

Thanks the house is currently not showing on right move although it did before....so going to chase that up with the agents.:)

willing2learn_3

PasturesNew wrote: »

Could your mum do swapsies and buy her buyer's house?

Could she pay cash for it from the equity in her current house?

Interesting idea - mum wasn't planning on buying anything as unlikely to get much equity - maybe somewhere between £40,000 - £60,000 but this all depends on everything coming together.

It's worth me asking the agents about this though as i have to contact them anyway. Thanks.

willing2learn_3

PasturesNew wrote: »

Could she pay cash for it from the equity in her current house?

She wouldn't get access to that equity until the house sells....don't know how it would all work.....as i said though it's not likely she could buy - but love the idea!

satchmeister

willing2learn wrote: »

Thanks, she dropped the price down to £180,000. Originally it was valued at £210,000. It's a 3 bedroom semi detached...

The agent's think it is at a bargain price, but i'm willing to listen to any advice. Other similar houses are higher priced in the area...it's hard to know what to do - but i'm listening.

If the agent thinks it is a bargain why doesn't he buy it, flip it and make a profit.

If there is nothing overtly wrong; subsidence, falling down, awful decor etc the the problem is the price. And as the market if falling you can chase the market down or reduce the price to sell now. The alternative is to wait for the market to recover ...

willing2learn_3

satchmeister wrote: »

If the agent thinks it is a bargain why doesn't he buy it, flip it and make a profit.

If there is nothing overtly wrong; subsidence, falling down, awful decor etc the the problem is the price. And as the market if falling you can chase the market down or reduce the price to sell now. The alternative is to wait for the market to recover ...

Thanks if the problem is the price then we will happily put the price further down, i hear what you say about chasing the market, that's backward. I will give this some serious thought in the next day or so.....I know it got a lot of interest recently when price down to current - i think for a while before that mum was holding it at £190,000 so that may explain the delay before that.

i will seriusly consider what you guys are saying about price, we want the house sold after all.

Doozergirl

When was the last time you saw it on Rightmove? Have you been checking the listing?

There's a house near me which I went into the agency and they told me about. It dropped off rightmove very quickly so I assumed it had sold until they called me to see if I wanted to view it. They've just dropped the price and it's only now that it's appeared on Rightmove at all - no one knew about it!

willing2learn_3

I last saw it on rightmove about 6 weeks ago but didn't check after that as they assured us it would be present online and i thought it was.....now it's not there. It's back on their website now but with 'sold stc' on it, which i think would put off any further buyers so will ask them to remove that sign from it if they can.