Honest advice for selling house before Christmas please x

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lol.., unbelievable reply. You come on here asking for help sellling your house, someone expresses an interest in actually looking at your house and u suggest they find it organically lol? I'm afraid fate doesn't sell houses, the right price and right location.., and telling interested people where it is might do a lot more good lol.

angel1976

*PigletPig* I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble selling your house. I'm in SE London too. Just to give you an idea of what prices are going for. We bought our house in December 2006 for £238,000. It was put up on the market in August last year for £275,000 (this was due to three agents valuing at the same price but we knew the stamp duty limit was going to be an issue), dropped to £250,000 and then sold for £225,000. We took the loss as we really needed to move and we also negotiated a good price off the house we bought (again, they were on the market for a while, refused to drop price initially until they lost the first house they wanted to buy...).

Another friend who sold near to us also had their house on the market for £250,000, took an offer for £238,000, sale fell through on exchange, house went back on market and they just completed the sale a few days ago at £237,000 but it was very painful getting there! Took more than a year for them to sell. If I were you, I would have shot your agent for advising you to reject the £247,000 offer... That's a very good offer in today's market. It is a buyer's market. Good luck!

shirlgirl2004

I find it bizarre someone saying that £250k is too much to sell for. it depends on the house and the area. There can be a big difference in square footage between 3 bed semis. People do have the money to buy houses. We sold our house (in 2009) without putting it on the market at twice the price the op wants. The house around the corner from me just sold for around £3.75m in less than a month after going on the market. There are people with money to spend at all price ranges.

If your house hasn't sold it isn't at the right price. In hindsight it is easy to say you should have taken the £247k offer and you were clearly badly advised by your agent. Personally I'd ditch the agent and price at £250k and expect a fair bit lower. It is an expensive lesson but that's life!

cazuk11

I'm with the OP on this one. If someone is interested in a buying a house in the area that she/he are selling in, then her/his house will be found. Sending a link isn't going to do anything. And besides she/he has give away a lot of information about what their bottom line is and history of potential sales. It's a buyers market out there anyway. May as well throw in your granny with this one!

googler

PigletPig wrote: »

Hi, I'm sure if ours is the right house for you, you will find it organically... I'm a great believer in fate. Thank you for your post though... It fills me with hope that people will still buy at Christmas x

'Fate' has already brought a potential buyer to you, one who sounds interested in your house; and you want to make it MORE DIFFICULT for him/her to see it and/or find it .....!?!?!?!?!?!????

Totally bizarre.

dawyldthing

the other thing is that rightmove is an open site that all of us can see. Yes this is a forum, but if you want people to look it would be better to guide them as its only like if we are looking at houses on a website as although rightmove is anonymous it still is there for people to look at.

GDB2222

googler wrote: »

'Fate' has already brought a potential buyer to you, one who sounds interested in your house; and you want to make it MORE DIFFICULT for him/her to see it and/or find it .....!?!?!?!?!?!????

Totally bizarre.

Are you lot all dafter than a brush? The OP has been extremely frank about his views on pricing etc. Of course he doesn't want that connected on the internet with his sale on Rightmove to give all potential buyers an unfair bargaining position.

suki1001

GDB2222 wrote: »

Are you lot all dafter than a brush? The OP has been extremely frank about his views on pricing etc. Of course he doesn't want that connected on the internet with his sale on Rightmove to give all potential buyers an unfair bargaining position.

It doesn't though. Anyone can find out how much a house has sold for previously and how much has been offered on previously. You only have to ask the Mr EA and check previous price sold for. You can be guaranteed you'd find out pretty much anything said on here. The sellers don't have to accept any offers, and anyone potentially serious would be thinking about the same things mentioned on here e.g stamp duty. I don't see how the posts on here put the seller at an unfair advantage at all. And hey if a potential sale could be made from this thread, then it really isn't to the sellers disadvantage, if the price was the same as an already previously accepted offer.

mrsp80

Have you thought of changing agents, if you are able to?

With our first agent we had 30 viewings in 5 months, all positive feedback but no offers! Very frustrating.

We changed agents and things quietened down on the viewing front, but the first viewing we got (3 weeks or so after instructing them) resulted in an offer, just a couple of per cent below the asking price.

The first agent we had was part of a big group and I think they were targeted on viewings so were keen to push people through the door to get the numbers up.

Also if you switch agents you may get your house details in front of some new buyers... some people still register with agents or look in the windows rather than just trawling Rightmove.

Good luck! Don't give up hope.

KateLiana27

Stop listening to estate agents. Were you prepared to accept the offer of £247500 before the EA stuck their nose in? Consider each offer on its own merits and don't speculate on what the buyer may or may not be able to afford. When we were buying, we offered what we thought a house was worth, not what we could stretch to.

Decide what the lowest you will accept is, market your house for just above this, and accept the first genuine and proceedable offer that meets your minimum. Given the offers you have received so far, it would seem that £250 000 is the going rate for your house. (Ignore the £265K offer, which obviously wasn't genuine).

Oh, and why don't you send a private message to the interested party?