Waiting for a buyer... Anyone want to join me?

Jox

How about a floorplan? It's a lovely house. July / August aren't great times for viewings due to holidays so viewings may pick up after September.

lor42x

We've got a second viewing! The chap loves the house and would put an offer in however his wife still on the fence - no specific reason why so fingers crossed the second visit is positive

lor42x

hmd1987 wrote: »

anyone care to give comments on my link?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60946130.html

not had any viewings since we dropped the price 3 weeks ago beginning to despair

Would second the suggestion of a floor plan, as a buyer it's one of the first things I look at!

hmd1987

brilliant, not sure why I hadn't thought of that actually, will get onto the EA tomorrow.

thank you

smallholdingsister

Well done lor.

smallholdingsister

hmd
love the glossy kitchen.
Being picky...
hide cables pic 1
Remove car pic 3

smallholdingsister

Get the lazy agent to put the pics in order. Kitchen. Sitting room. Outside. Sitting room. Kitchen again. Doesn't "flow".

Could the agent do a better bathroom pic?

smallholdingsister

When I say bathroom I mean the room with the shower in.

Unless your house is unbelieveably small I don't get the impression the agent is showing it-in pics-at it's best. They haven't bothered to label the photos either.

Love your purple table and chairs in the garden!

hmd1987

all good suggestions, have emailed the ea about all the above

the small bathroom is the ensuite

michael1234

kilby_007 wrote: »

The EA is the middle man and prevents you appearing desperate to the buyers so by all means call them. It's normal for an EA to ring for feedback anyway, unless the market is busy.

When we were looking at property in Feb-March (when houses were selling before even going to market), for the 5 or so viewings we had only one EA called us back for feedback. These last 2 months every EA has got back to me the next day. One of them even called a couple of hours after our viewing which is very unusual. Sign of a stagnant market at the moment.

Second paragraph is very interest - thanks for that. Regarding your first I'm not sure I would always consider the EA to be always acting in your best interest and therefore I wouldn't always be honest with them. They are acting in their best interest and that means make a sale! Make a sale at (within reason) any price. Even though its percentage based,m a house priced down from say 300K to 290K means very little difference in commission but if it means a sale, then that's great for the EA.

So, where I'm going with this is if you show "weakness", the EA will read it and may suggest to a prospective purchaser that "...the vendor may well consider a lower offer...". In my case, back in 2010, the house we bought was on for 625. As we were looking around the EA took me to one side and said "...what do you think about 550?" - I think there is every chance the vendor didn't know about that given it was a lot more than 10% off but just got a new offer of 550 (which they rejected only later then to accept 560).

Anyway, bottom line is the EA wants to make a sale as quick as possible at virtually any price and is certainly not motivated to wortk for the vendor despite being paid to do so.