Signs of a serious viewer

phoebe1989seb

We've sold a few 'quirky' and/or historic properties, including one that had been built in Tudor times then dismantled piece by piece in the 1930s and relocated to a different part of the county.

These have attracted their fair share of nosey, non-serious viewers when the time came to sell. We had one pair that admitted they'd always wanted to see inside, that they thought it was like being on a film set and they believed it was haunted.......it wasn't, but they were noticeably jumpy and you could see they had convinced themselves

Tbh, when selling we've often done so fairly quickly - first day on market, within ten days etc - or else the house has been so 'marmite', we've only had a handful of viewings in the six months it took to find a buyer, so the serious ones have tended to stand out. In seven sales we've never had more than six viewings before we accepted an offer. Till now

With our current sale every viewing has taken at least an hour, but as there's a lot to see here that's really no indication of the particular viewer's seriousness.

Crashy_Time

A really serious viewer will most likely be upfront about offering under asking price.

Bluebell1000

For our last two purchases, we made an offer directly to the sellers at the viewing. That was probably a good clue that we were serious

DaftyDuck

Crashy_Time wrote: »

A really serious viewer will most likely be upfront about offering under asking price.

This really is one of your more random unconnected musings - and that's saying something!

Cheer up, Trashy, it may never happe... ... Oh, I forget, you've been wanting "it", whatever the megadisaster is, to happen for the past gazillion years. ... and learned nothing in the meantime! :rotfl:

{.. and yet, on another thread, I actually agree with the miserable curmudgeon! Must go and get some more pills....}

SeduLOUs

I absolutely loved the last house I viewed and did make an offer. But I didn't let on how much I loved it and spent more time asking about flaws then mentioning the good stuff as I wanted it under asking price. Appearing desperate would have chipped away at my bargaining power - better to let the vendor believe I might walk away. It's all just tactics. The house sale is going through at the price I wanted it for.

RedfordML

Anyone who shows no interest, asks zero questions


No such thing as serious viewer unless money is offered at the end?

sulphate

We completed on our house sale & purchase last month. We got 2 offers on our house, both of the viewers took time walking round the house, asking questions and making positive noises. I didn't see all the viewers but I remember one couple that probably stayed here less than 5 minutes and clearly weren't very interested.

Honestly though, the whole thing took 6 months to complete and the one thing I learnt was that getting an offer is the easy bit.

NicNicP

We viewed our new house before our house was even on the market. Our second viewing was the day before ours went on right move. Suppose we could've been classed as not serious viewers. We had our offer accepted less then 24 hours after ours was advertised on right move!

robatwork

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

that they thought it was like being on a film set and they believed it was haunted

Were they about 9 years old?

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

.......it wasn't,

Well you didn't need to say it. Nowhere is.

phoebe1989seb

robatwork wrote: »

Were they about 9 years old?


Well you didn't need to say it. Nowhere is.

Of course not......more like mid-fifties, but they presented as Daily Fail types. So rather infantile, imho.

Completely agree, but I'm sure there are a few people - here and elsewhere - that wouldn't and would swear blind that ghosts exist, lol :rotfl: