Viewing times

alchemist.1

House for sale whereby it's vacant but the vendor/EA only allowing viewings at one point in time during middle of the week. Looks like its being sold on behalf of an estate.

Any guesses why this would be? or is this very common?

wwl

Maybe vendor wants to be there and can only make it at that time?

davidmcn

Open viewings, pretty common and saves on agents' costs. Also potential marketing ploy if everybody sees the other interested parties and get overexcited.

tealady

Noisy neighbours at weekends? Personally if I was interested I would visit the street outside those times.

Davesnave

Sometimes, the person benefiting from the proceeds of the sale is unable to be present and the executor isn't close to the action either.

In those circumstances, agents may choose to do block viewings for the reasons given above, and for their own convenience.

My first purchase was like that: beneficiary in a care home and elderly executor living 100 miles away.

ReadingTim

Does it matter? If you want to buy their house, you have to play by their rules.

alchemist.1

wwl wrote: »

Maybe vendor wants to be there and can only make it at that time?

The viewings have been done by the Estate Agent alone.

alchemist.1

ReadingTim wrote: »

Does it matter? If you want to buy their house, you have to play by their rules.

Not doubt everyone has to play by the sellers rules or bail out.

Just curious to see whether i'm wasting my time on the property when there is some ulterior motive behind it i.e. a family member is a preferred buyer and midweek viewing is to put people off (They EA has stated that they are contractually bound to keep the property on sale for a certain period- is this sort of stuff stipulated in a will?)

alchemist.1

Davesnave wrote: »

Sometimes, the person benefiting from the proceeds of the sale is unable to be present and the executor isn't close to the action either.

In those circumstances, agents may choose to do block viewings for the reasons given above, and for their own convenience.

My first purchase was like that: beneficiary in a care home and elderly executor living 100 miles away.

Thanks, that would explain it. Sounds like a similar case.

davidmcn

alchemist.1 wrote: »

(They EA has stated that they are contractually bound to keep the property on sale for a certain period- is this sort of stuff stipulated in a will?)

In general executors have a duty to take reasonable steps to get the best price, but there are no hard and fast rules about how they do that.

martindow

Has the previous resident died and is the house being sold by executors? If so you need to check whether probate has been obtained before you spend money on surveys etc. There have been several threads here where there have been long delays waiting for probate to be granted.