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maisie_cat wrote: »

If you are desperate and want to get on with your life you need to reduce the price. We put ours on the market for £630k last year and have had 2 sales fall through. In order to get on with our lives we have sold again for £520k because life is too short.

Sounds similar to my mum. She put hers on for £695k (3 identical EA valuations), and then sold a year and a half later for £550k, a little over a year ago.

Crashy_Time

Davesnave wrote: »

Fair or unfair, it was offered on it's own as a response to the OP, which was not in the least helpful.


Further unhelpful suggestions followed. They are continuing and derailing the thread, subverting the main reason for the MSE Forum's existence, which is to help people individually with specific problems.

I thought it also existed to help people save money?

Davesnave

Crashy_Time wrote: »

I thought it also existed to help people save money?

Which part of my last post excluded that?

diggingdude

Can you not suggest to ex you either want rent or will consider moving back in (even if only for a few days a week) as you see need to be seeing something for your money.

Crashy_Time

Davesnave wrote: »

Which part of my last post excluded that?

You seemed to exclude "dropping the price to sell" from being a helpful suggestion, although in this case it is the only sensible suggestion as the OP acknowledges, but the problem is getting the ex to see this.

Would this help..

https://www.propertylog.net/

Davesnave

Crashy_Time wrote: »

You seemed to exclude "dropping the price to sell" from being a helpful suggestion, although in this case it is the only sensible suggestion as the OP acknowledges, but the problem is getting the ex to see this.

It appears that I made similar points to you much earlier in the thread, but there's none so blind as those who won't see.


Because you obviously need help, I have highlighted some of the relevant bits

Davesnave wrote: »

The OP wants to reduce the price and the first comment here suggests going down the court route to force a sale, which I wouldn't disagree with either.

.........would it be a sensible thing to employ a RICS surveyor to do a valuation at this point? If the husband is deluded (over price) it might help, and it might also assist in showing he's prevaricating if a legal approach is still required.

Crashy_Time

Davesnave wrote: »

It appears that I made similar points to you much earlier in the thread, but there's none so blind as those who won't see.


Because you obviously need help, I have highlighted some of the relevant bits

The underlying rudeness of your response (My post to you was polite not rude) implies to me that although yes, you say that the price needs to come down, this narrative is not one you are fully happy about?

Davesnave

Crashy_Time wrote: »

The underlying rudeness of your response (My post to you was polite not rude) implies to me that although yes, you say that the price needs to come down, this narrative is not one you are fully happy about?

Oh, right, I'm not wrong now, but rude. Personally I think it's rude to accuse someone of something they've not done, especially when the evidence they didn't is there in black and white.


Why would I be unhappy? I have no plans to sell and a recently married daughter who will be buying next year. I shall be happy to see her enjoying lower prices if they come about, but I won't be happy for the thousands of others who might be adversely affected if the reason for them is a recession, the same as it was in 2008.


This thread is well derailed, so it's fortunate the OP had received some good advice prior to you and your sidekick showing up. I'm not adding further to it.

winspiration

With so many viewings, my strong suspicion would be that it is your husband putting off buyers - the suggestion of getting someone he doesn't know to pose as a buyer is a good one. Even if he just tells people the situation, it could well be offputting as delays are easily foreseeable with someone reluctantly dragging their feet.

I confess that I was in this position the opposite way around in the early 1990s, and did manage to drag out the sale a couple of years until I was in a position to buy out the other half of the equity, by not being all that pro-active in marketing it. He had moved out of the area and taken a year out at the time to go travelling, so was not around to keep close tabs on what was happening (or not!).



I think that in this case, the signs are that you will have to end up going down the legal route to force the sale, so probably the sooner you start, the better.

jimbog

Crashy_Time wrote: »

You seemed to exclude "dropping the price to sell" from being a helpful suggestion

Crashy_Time wrote: »

yes, you say that the price needs to come down

Perhaps an apology to Dave?