How long was your house on before it sold?

brodawel

alchemist.1 wrote: »

It is normal for the property to be taken off the market if you accept an offer. From a buyers point of view, I wouldnt bother with a vendor who doesn't do that, whatever the motives.

In your case you were being messed around and therefore would return back on right move within a week if no serious movements have been made.

That's exactly it, we did take it off Rightmove for 2 weeks while we waited like a couple of fools thinking it was all proceeding only to find they were viewing others and hadn't even instructed solicitors etc. The person that did eventually buy it didn't ask it to be taken off the market. It remained on Rightmove until exchange of contracts. That doesn't mean to say it was still on the market, it was sold as far as we were concerned and no one else viewed it or would have been allowed to view it, there would be no point, a seller would be daft to risk losing their buyer in favour of another buyer who might turn out to be less genuine.

iantojones40

I'm amazed at people who are prepared to have their house sat on the market for 12 months or more without accepting that it's overpriced (one round the corner from me has been on for FIVE YEARS now!)

I absolutely hated the selling process, having to keep my house immaculate all the time and having random strangers traipse round it, but some homeowners obviously get a perverse pleasure out of it judging by how long they're prepared to leave their house sat languishing on the market.

Bababababybel

We were very lucky really and ours sold in 5 days, this is in the Humber region where the property market is pretty slow and things seem to stay on the market for months. We were fortunate that someone was looking for a house just like ours at the time we put it up for sale. All down to luck for us really.

ellie27

We priced it right and had 2 offers within 2 weeks, one of which we accepted. Unfortunately 7 weeks later they pulled out as their mortgage fell through. So our house went back on the market a couple weeks before Christmas and for 2-3 months we had no viewers Dec-Feb. I think then it looked as if our house was sitting on the market so long so people assumed something was wrong with it! We reduced the price by just a few thousand and that was enough to get 2 more offers. So, from start to accepting the offer (the offer that did go on to complete!) was nearly 8 months!

Have you saw somewhere that you would offer on should you get an offer this week?

When we accepted the offer at the start we went on to offer on a house we liked, we didnt love the house but it ticked a lot of boxes. In the end we were lucky our buyers pulled out and it all fell through, as 6 months on we bought a much better house.

We think of it as we were very lucky! Perhaps we felt rushed to buy something since we had an offer accepted on our own house.

jaydeeuk1

We listed ours on 8th march, sold STC a fortnight later. Only cost £200 to sell with feature listing on Rightmove as well, and doing our own photos, viewings and description was quite fun. Without having £1000's in agent fees to pay meant we could move on price.
A lot of sub £250k houses in belper sell within a few days to a month, especially 2 beds.

alice_kate_2

Ours went on rightmove last night so will keep you posted with how long it takes! We're in south east just of the M1

cloo

Depends really... my last house I had an agent do an open day, when all agents had been saying they'd been getting 20+ viewers to them. I got 5 viewers that day and one low offer I turned down.


I took it off the market for two months and back on with another agent, who got 10 viewers on an open day and 5 offers, 3 of which were very strong and it went for significantly over asking. A combination of better time of year and better agent got a pretty immediate sale. This was in London in a very popular area... in other areas you can perhaps expect viewings to be fewer and further between, so I wouldn't worry about one week.

yugabharathi

easily you can sell when you are put effort means

seven-day-weekend

We had no viewings for a month because the price was too high (but we thought we'd go with it as that's what the agent thought they could get for it).

After a month, we reduced the price by £10k to something we considered more realistic, had loads of viewings and three offers, (all below asking price) one of which we accepted. Took about three weeks to get the acceptable offer.

Katgrit

2010......house went on RightMove on Sunday, got full asking price on the Friday from the first viewer.

2014.....6 weeks, for £1000 less than asking price.

Both sales were "urgent" as each time I'd moved jobs halfway across the country and had no life apart from commuting. I priced each house sensibly but especially with the first one I think I was too desperate to sell and should have chanced my arm with a higher marketing price. Second one, my plan was to start dropping it by £2,000 every week or so until it sold, when along came my buyer with her offer. Even waiting just 6 weeks felt like a killer compared to my first sale so you have my sympathies!