Fussy ftb

ACG

If the responses are too much needs doing, then get it painted/decorated and bring the standard up a bit - £500-1000 would probably make a dent into it. You may even find you could then up the price a little also.

Some people can not imagine and they may need a little bit of guidance. I bought "our" house 4-5 years ago. The house needed gutting and doing from my scratch, we had no competition when making an offer. My Mrs had no interest in it all. By the time it was done, she did not want to leave and we had 2 offers for the asking price...admittedly we had to reduce it from the original asking price, but we put it on top end as a bit of a punt and then reduced it down to a realistic amount after 2 weeks.

aneary

The only experience I have had in regards to viewings are the two houses my parents sold they had around 15 viewings in a week period for both and had several offers of the asking price.

If you have only had 30 viewings in 2 years and no offers then there is something wrong with your property probably price.

Time2go

Right it's in the best area for city but priced at same price as flats in worse place. We were priced at 15k more when initially on market. We reduced heavily when buyer fell through as wanted a quick sale and other flats in area are priced 5-30k for similar sq ft.

Retiring person would not liable to be interested due to number of steps and no lift.

Does not help that property market in area has still not recovered from crisis!

I have had multiple agents round and even considered auctioning it. Auctioneer said it was far far too nice to auction.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-48594513.html

It's estate agents that's saying ftb are too fussy. Reasoning if it was overpriced we wouldn't gets viewers and they would go on to offer on something else. He is seeing buyers he saw a year ago still looking.

Btw flatabove mine (need of total renovation and new ceiling ) went for 3k less than our min (sale is going through now)

Eric_the_half_a_bee

Time2go wrote: »

Btw flatabove mine (need of total renovation and new ceiling ) went for 3k less than our min (sale is going through now)

What do you mean by "our min" ?

Time2go

I mean a reasonable offer based on an asking price of 95k. And is the min I can afford to accept for it.

Eric_the_half_a_bee

How much, in £, did the flat above yours sell for? I can't tell from the information you have provided.

Pixie5740

Ask the estate agent what sort of properties these fussy FTB are buying and in what price bracket. FTB in Plymouth must be buying something.

Time2go

THats what I've said above they are not buying still looking ! He says they are searching for something that doesn't excist.

Pixie5740

So no FTB in Plymouth has bought anything in the last 2 years? I find that unbelievable.

Time2go

Since it's been on market we have replaced bathroom and re painted and carpeted and floored throughout even replaced kitchen cupboard doors.

We are actually applying for listed buildings consent and are going to change it to a 2 bed hoping that may shift it: