smallholdingsister's strivings

smallholdingsister

Aww thanks.x

smallholdingsister

There is a 5 bed townhouse at the same price as ours, but it is on the main drag through town with only the dodge-the-parky version of parking.

AlexLK

Sounds like your house is priced about right from what you've said, though something is only worth as much as somebody is willing to pay, of course.

smallholdingsister

My problem is a very patient husband!

AlexLK

smallholdingsister wrote: »

My problem is a very patient husband!

:rotfl: I presume he's not willing to drop the asking price, then?

smallholdingsister

Nope............

ourcornercottage

From when we sold a couple of years ago, the only thing I'd say is if you are getting lots of looks and click throughs online but no viewings I'd ask EA to amend listing, rewrite and photos. If you can look at making the house as generic as possible, no personal tastes on display.

Check your 'kerb appeal' for people who do drive past.

Then if this doesn't work it'll need to be a price reduction.

We did this with EA, after several months of nothing, had another clear out, painted everything cream, hid family photos, re did front garden, set up every room as it should be. Make it so potential buyers don't have to think.

After this we had many viewings,2 offers and a sale at asking price in weeks.

Note we had already done this all once which we thought was good enough, evidently not.

newgirly

Even a drop in price may not help unless it's a fairly substantial one and puts you into a different search bracket we were told when selling grans house. I don't envy you, it's horrid being stuck in limbo x

smallholdingsister

I kind of think that, NG.
Thanks occ.

Happy Birthday to the eternally wonderful Mr Paul Darrow of the perfect diction. He is 75 today.

katep23

Also, changing price will not bring you up in searches as a new listing.

The house we bought was on the market at £575K, then reduced to £500K, then reduced to £450K and finally reduced to £400K.

The only reason OH found it was because he used the "properties with reduced prices" function on the prime-evil app, otherwise it would have appeared a long way down the list on a price-based search as it had been on the market for a year.

Can the agent remove the listing and re-list it to make you appear at the top again?