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I don't think the OP is buying/selling a specialist property however - Just a bog standard home - so what's your point ?
My point is that we aren't in possession of all the facts, like the speed at which property sells in the OP's area. The other rather obvious point is that one is never really sure who is a 'timewaster.' I know; I sold to one!
Where I used to live, houses would sell without even passing through an agent, so with the notable exception of 2008-10, selling in a place like that, at a realistic price, would be no problem.
So the moral of that for the OP would be, "Be prepared to set a sensible price on yours if attempting to go down the viewings first route."
We also don't know the speed at which property sells in the area where they are hoping to buy. One reason why I was able to view so many properties and be welcome as an unsold viewer, was that the average sale time there was a year or more.
Where I am now, there are reasonable houses not selling within a year. It's a very different market from London and the SE, so people are hardly pushed to do loads of viewings. A viewing takes 1/2 an hour and people spend longer than that discussing the weather! Different priorities and lifestyle, I guess.0 -
To be honest if it's taken you 18 months to make up your minds to go and look at it they might not be convinced you are that likely to buy it.0
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One approach might be to explain your 'game plan' to the EAs, and ask if you can just 'tail-gate' other viewers. i.e. Agree to only do your viewings immediately after others.
That will minimise inconvenience / 'tidying up' for the seller.
Even then, if you find somewhere you like and make an offer, the seller is unlikely to take it off the market until your own place is under offer.0 -
ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »To be honest if it's taken you 18 months to make up your minds to go and look at it they might not be convinced you are that likely to buy it.
We werent in a position then, as the asking price was massively outside our range. Now it isnt.
All the points by the others are perfectly viable. We really like our house, if we put it on the market and got offered an asking price, we wouldnt accept it unless we already found somewhere we want.0
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