Do you tell neighbours your selling up?

cramg

Everytime i see our neighbours which is a few times a week whislt washing the car etc, they always ask the same question, 'you don't have any plans to move do you, i don't know what we would do if new people ever moved in'.
We have lived in the house 6 years but prior to that they had issues with the previous owners, hence them worrying about us ever moving.

Anyway, our house will be going up for sale in the near future as we need to upsize.
Do we just go ahead or tell the neighbour out of courtesy prior to the board going up?

jbainbridge

Tell them.

We got caught out - after engaging the estate agent the board went up the day after. Apparently we will be missed ... if it ever goes through!!

Angry_Bear

Normally I wouldn't bother, but given their obvious concerns and previous problems I'd probably pop round for a chat and warn them.

somethingcorporate

Tell them, it shouldn't impact your plans but it is definitely polite.

SailorSam

I'd tell neighbours if i spoke to them, but i wouldn't go around knocking on doors and telling people of my plans.

DRP

Angry_Bear wrote: »

Normally I wouldn't bother, but given their obvious concerns and previous problems I'd probably pop round for a chat and warn them.

yeh agree with this^^

We forgot/didn't get around to it and felt quite bad that the first thing our elderly neighbour knew was a sign going up...

J_J_Carter

Yep, I was getting prices from a number of EAs and one 'accidentally' put their flag board up. Ooops! Neighbours were unhappy as we're in a terrace and they fear BTL LL, but that's life.

go_cat

It wasn't our neighbour we had the issue with but one further down the road who had it in their head we had sold it to gypsies :eek: when in fact we had sold it to the loveliest family, where they got their concerns from I have no idea!!

Better_Days

Tell them. Our next door neighbour is a dreadful worrier and I wanted to give him fair warning, in fact we told him when we were thinking about selling, before we put the property on the market.

I can understand his concern though. The neighbours in his previous property were Portuguese and first they moved a caravan onto the drive which another family lived in (i suspect part of extended family). Then a further two families moved into tents in the back garden. His wife is terminally ill and just wants some p&q and I think that they found the whole thing with the neighbours very stressful.

googler

Tell all your nieghbours.

They may have friends or family who actively want to move to be close to them.

If you tell them before you hire an agent, you may be able to close a private sale and save on fees, not have to do more than one viewing, etc.

Mrs_Z

Whether to tell or not, I don't know but you could choose not to have the board up. I just noticed as found the house opposite to ours for sale on the Rightmove but there's no board outside. They obviously don't want to broadcast the fact that they are selling....