Rightmove Filter Through

AlexMac

Apart from location, I suspect it depends on price..
then presentation...
then luck!
Case study; we sold 3 years ago (when the market in our area was heating up but not yet incandescent); it went to the first viewer in a couple of days and before it hit the websites, and a better price than we dared expect, £10k under the very toppy asking price...

So we offered on a property half a mile away, still in a popular area, and which was being marketed at a price we had previously thought was unaffordably beyond our reach... and got it at £30k under.

The one we got had been on and off the market for 12 months! In a great street, and (now) a fabulous house, but as it had been tenanted for several years, was tired, neglected and with the most inappropriately naff front door (pseudo-Georgian with wavy patterned glass panels on a 1980's house).

But if we marketed it now, it would go in 60 seconds judging by the way neighbouring properties have sold without marketing!

So the message? Probably only that you can't generalise; but
- choose the right agent (our house had just been assigned to a new agent, better suited to the locality and niche/price-bracket than the one who'd failed for a year)
- price it right
- tidy it up!

Good luck

janthemum

Had a viewing before it got to Rightmove. They offered full asking price. That was Hertfordshire end last year. Price 249.950.

Unitoons

We sold ours in Gosport, Hants in March this year for £280,000.

Agent had viewers lined up so as soon as we instructed them we had three viewings and two offers on the first day.

The next day we had two more viewings and accepted an asking price offer. The details went on Rightmove the next day and immediately had to be labelled as "under offer".

It really does depend on the area!

billybear1

Second day on right move, we believe it is priced to sell. Agent is based in area we are looking to move to, offered us 1% plus has all inside info on what we are looking to buy and gets most of the houses we are interested in, unfortunately, being 20 miles from where we are currently are not the local EA to us.

Day two and I guess the local EA would have had people here by now, I am just hoping RM and ZPLA do their jobs...

lindens

the first weekend after it went live on RM was the busiest with people booking viewings for the following week. then there was a massive lull followed by a price drop. the first viewer after the price drop made an offer which we accepted. this was 5 weeks after it went live on RM

sleepymans

We are in a village with a fairly slow market.

We instructed the agent on a Thursday in June, the house went on Rightmove and Zoopla over that night and on the Friday had 3 calls from the agent for viweings.

The first viewing was 6pm Friday and those people offered full asking price the next day! 2 further viewings as they were already booked, and one of those resulted in an offer just £5k under. So we were happy to accept the offer from the first couple....we are now just awaiting exchange of contracts and fingers crossed should move on 9th Sept.

I cant imagine the EA earned such an easy £2k....but the asking price was realistic to start with as we had already found a property we wanted to move to.

Good luck for your sale.

ellie27

Ours went on rightmove 5 days ago and we have had a call within 7 hours to arrange a viewing. 4 viewings so far. One is coming back for a second viewing too. We are in Glasgow

remembermee

Ours went live late on a Friday and we had our first viewing on the Saturday.
We sold our house the following Friday. We had 9 viewings in the week it was for sale.

billybear1

Still nothing, not a peep, considering if we have made the right choice.

MadelinesMum

billybear1 wrote: »

Still nothing, not a peep, considering if we have made the right choice.

I would give it a while yet, many people are on holiday or trying to get their kids stuff ready for the new school year. I've had no viewings for a week - my EA phoned me and left a message, then emailed saying he will come out and visit me next week and take more photos, explaining that it is a quiet period of the year.