House up for sale, no viewings after 2 weeks... is this normal???

sonastin

There was an identical house to mine on the market when I put my house up for sale. I went on with an asking price £5k lower than his. He matched my asking price. After a few months, I lowered my asking price by £10k. He withdrew his property from sale. A few more months (8 in total from going on the market) I sold for £10k less than asking price (i.e. £20k below my opening price, £25k below his original price). After a couple more months, he went back on the market with my EA for my asking price. Eventually sold this year, 9 months after me, probably 2 years after he went on the market, for £5k more than I did. Am I gutted? Perhaps a wee bit. But I wanted to sell when I did and could afford to take the drop in order to secure the house I wanted to buy.

Moral of the story - while in general house prices are falling, in individual cases, you might be able to get more than other houses sold for. It depends on how desperate you are to sell and how stubborn you are to get the higher price. My neighbour wouldn't sell for what I sold for, I didn't want to wait as long as he waited. So if you want to sell quickly, market your house for less - £110k or even £107k. If you're not really in a rush, £115k isn't that unreasonable. After all, the vendors who were willing to take £107k are no longer selling houses on your street are they?

erdd2

googler wrote: »

Why did you remove the quote delimiter at the end of the quote?

By accident and unaware until you pointed it out.

I really must stop saving and switch on a light!

roger196

No floor plan, no room sizes, no size of garden. Need clarity of access for parking. No mention of distance to / quality of local facilities eg schools, doctors, shops, bus routes. Think why I should buy your house and not some of the others in the immediate locality. Give reasons.
Would agree with googler's comments on pictures, need re-taking. Photos need labelling not just no 6 etc
"draft particulars" are a turn-off, sounds like the vendor cannot make up his mind whether to sell or not, is all paper work going to be this casual.

Mr_Thrifty

The garden photos are what's putting people off.

The house looks like it's heavily overlooked by about 20 other houses in the street. Zero privacy.

And the astroturf and climbing frame makes it look like the Big Brother Hoose.

Plus the website it's on is very user-unfriendly.

23rdian

The website is not too bad. Photos are reasonable if not great. I just don't think this design of house is ever worth in excess of £100k