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Waiting for a buyer... Anyone want to join me?
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We are moving due to not liking our noisy neighbours, I would love to have been there this morning when the sold sign went up on our board
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Ragtimeplayer wrote: »We are moving due to not liking our noisy neighbours, I would love to have been there this morning when the sold sign went up on our board
Congratulations on your sale RagtimePlayer. Your name made me laugh when you say that it is your neighbours that are noisy :rotfl:0 -
Our house came off Rightmove just over a week ago and we have now signed up with a different agent. He says that click-through rates on Rightmove shoot through the roof on Boxing Day, so just before Christmas is the ideal time to launch back on the market. We are having new photos taken on Wednesday but are delaying the launch till 21 December and booking viewings in for the beginning of the new year. In the meantime we will be doing what he calls a 'soft-launch' which is telling people about the property and offering to show them before it comes on Rightmove. Says it makes the property feel more exclusive. I hope he is right. I agree that is a good idea to give it a rest so that people don't get fed up with seeing in online.0
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Congratulations on your sale RagtimePlayer. Your name made me laugh when you say that it is your neighbours that are noisy :rotfl:
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Our house came off Rightmove just over a week ago and we have now signed up with a different agent. He says that click-through rates on Rightmove shoot through the roof on Boxing Day, so just before Christmas is the ideal time to launch back on the market. We are having new photos taken on Wednesday but are delaying the launch till 21 December and booking viewings in for the beginning of the new year. In the meantime we will be doing what he calls a 'soft-launch' which is telling people about the property and offering to show them before it comes on Rightmove. Says it makes the property feel more exclusive. I hope he is right. I agree that is a good idea to give it a rest so that people don't get fed up with seeing in online.
Your agent sounds like a slick talking spiv (even more so than most EA's!) I can only imagine what amount of flowery language and hyperbole they would use in the Rightmove listing.
When it comes to selling your house let's hope for your sake he can walk the walk as good as he can talk the talk.0 -
Well I guess this is the worst time of year for selling but I hope for great things in the new year.
Is anyone getting any viewings or has it all gone quiet?0 -
smallholdingsister wrote: »Well I guess this is the worst time of year for selling but I hope for great things in the new year.
Is anyone getting any viewings or has it all gone quiet?
We are getting viewings. 8 in the first week and one offer which was about £7k too low. Agent tells me there were 2 booked for Saturday (one of whom put their own on the market that same day with a view to buying ours...) and 3 for the coming week. House has been on the market for 10 days ish now. We actually bought that house in late November and completed the following year.
It helps that ours is empty. Agents can go and come as they please!0 -
10 weeks in and still not a sign of a viewer, the market is still dead here. 36 properties for sale in my village (normally averages 20) and nothing under offer so at least everyone else is in the same boat.
Seriously thinking of taking it off the market and spending some cash on it now.0 -
We;ve been listed for about 5 weeks now and have just had our second viewing.
Unfortunately this one seems unsuccessful too. It appears people have no issues with the house, just that they can't see themselves there. Luckily (I guess) we're in no rush!0 -
Not on the market yet - planning to do so in the New Year - but have already had someone approach me privately with an indication that they might be interested when we do
That said, a few years back we had a similar situation where a business client who had never been inside our house expressed an interest in seeing it with a view to purchasing prior to it hitting the market. That turned out to be a complete waste of time, but you never know......
I think it would be useful here if posters put their locations - rough, not precise and maybe if they are rural/semi-rural etc - so others can get an idea of what is happening in those areas. We are in a period detached in a semi-rural location within the West Midlands Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed0
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