Selling help needed...

daisyboyd24

I’m hoping someone can give me a little advice.
I currently live in Northamptonshire and selling to re-locate to Scotland.

We have a 4 bed detached extended town house on a desirable estate. We’ve had it up for sale since before Christmas and have had 10 viewings so far but no offers!
We need quite a quick sale so priced accordingly, about £5k less than other 4 bed detached in our area.
I’m finding it strange that we are not even getting offers.
Have done a deep clean and constant de-clutter, a couple of rooms had quite scuffed walls so I’ve re-painted them.

Any tips to help would be hugely appreciated! Should I be putting fresh flowers in rooms? etc
Thanks in advance :-)

Slinky

It is only 2 weeks into January!

What feedback have you been getting back from the viewings?

lincroft1710

Can you give us a Rightmove (or similar) link, please

booksurr

if you post the Rightmove link doubtless people will comment upon its saleability / marketing potential based on the photos - typically those comments will miss the point and will only relate to whether people will select your property to view in the first place.

What really matters is where your property appears in the search results and that is driven by price, not de-cluttered rooms.

on the info you have provided so far it is pointless to try and help as nothing you have said indicates your "problem".
- How many weeks has it been on market
- How soon after that did viewings start?
- 10 viewings over what period, eg: all in the first week, none since then? What feedback from viewers & your agent? Who looks at houses over Christmas ??
- A 5k difference on asking price is impossible to assess without knowing your sales price and therefore what % drop that represents against your competitors

daisyboyd24

Slinky wrote: »

It is only 2 weeks into January!

What feedback have you been getting back from the viewings?

We've been getting really positive feedback - intact no negative feedback which is why we are wondering why we've not had even an offer!

hannahbond37

You really have to be patient with these things. We just exchanged on our sale/purchase and were tearing our hair out about not getting offers.

We had 20 viewings in a week and then radio silence on offers - started freaking, and then the next day (a week later) we had an offer 10k over the asking price. People just need time to consider their position/ have second viewings etc.

daisyboyd24

booksurr wrote: »

if you post the Rightmove link doubtless people will comment upon its saleability / marketing potential based on the photos - typically those comments will miss the point and will only relate to whether people will select your property to view in the first place.

What really matters is where your property appears in the search results and that is driven by price, not de-cluttered rooms.

on the info you have provided so far it is pointless to try and help as nothing you have said indicates your "problem".
- How many weeks has it been on market
- How soon after that did viewings start?
- 10 viewings over what period, eg: all in the first week, none since then? What feedback from viewers & your agent? Who looks at houses over Christmas ??
- A 5k difference on asking price is impossible to assess without knowing your sales price and therefore what % drop that represents against your competitors

Thanks for your reply.
- Its been on the market since 25th November
- We had our first viewing on the 17th and then one other before Christmas. We had 6 this weekend - all positive feedback but no offers! Two more already booked for this week
- it is up for sale at £269,950.00 We had 4 agents come out and value it, one was a little lower than this, two between 5 and 10k more.

daisyboyd24

hannahbond37 wrote: »

You really have to be patient with these things. We just exchanged on our sale/purchase and were tearing our hair out about not getting offers.

We had 20 viewings in a week and then radio silence on offers - started freaking, and then the next day (a week later) we had an offer 10k over the asking price. People just need time to consider their position/ have second viewings etc.

Thanks Hannah. Hopefully one of the 6 people who viewed this weekend will make an offer :-)

sheff6107

If you keep getting the viewers that is half the battle won, so I wouldn't worry if you are getting feet through the door. Like buses you'll probably get 2 offers at once.

ReadingTim

Well, early January isn't traditionally associated with househunting: buyers, like hedgehogs, are still in hibernation and don't usually come out until the spring, even online.

If however, you're keen to get this quick sale you mention, knock £30k off the price and see if that generates any more interest - I suspect it will....

daisyboyd24

sheff6107 wrote: »

If you keep getting the viewers that is half the battle won, so I wouldn't worry if you are getting feet through the door. Like buses you'll probably get 2 offers at once.

thank you - fingers crossed :-)