Average time to get an offer.

Skiddaw1

70 is the new 40.....:)


And it definitely doesn't look dated.

Rivernight

Although it doesn't have a second bathroom there is scope to put it in. Some people with the same house have taken the two inbuilt wardrobes (in a recess) from the two double bedrooms and installed an ensuite. We have never done this but it is straightforward and the plumbing from the cloakroom is directly below. The lounge is huge as it was supposed to be a living/dining room before we had the extension. So there would be scope to take some of the space from the lounge and enlarge the kitchen.

Rivernight

Is there anything about the location which is not obvious in the listing? Main road, commercial stuff nearby, power lines etc which people only realize then they come to view.[/QUOTE]


No nothing out of the ordinary about its location. Not on a main road or anything, no commercial stuff or power lines etc.

phoebe1989seb

I agree that with Christmas inbetween it's definitely early days. Also that it's well presented.

Having sold our last house with four bedrooms and only one bathroom, I know this is an issue for a lot of buyers looking for a family home. Ours was a period property with more space than yours (2000 sq ft) but yours definitely has the potential for adding an extra bathroom/shower room and you'd like to think buyers could see that. As some have no vision though, it might be worth getting plans drawn up to show how/where it could be done. That is what we did.....

The family who we sold that house to had fallen in love with it when we bought it three years previously and were prepared to overlook such stuff as lack of a second bathroom. They have left it exactly as was

We've never had a property on the market over Christmas and found with our last few sales that going onto the market in either early September or late February worked well for us. Of those, the longest time to get an offer was five weeks, the shortest was ten days. In the case of the twice we went on in September, the timeframe was -

1) 1st September on market/1st October offer/16th December completion
2) 1st September on market/7th October offer/2nd February completion

When we went on the market in February the timeframe was -

28th February on market/10th March offer/23rd May completion.

ethank

Rivernight wrote: »

The house that went for £440k is 4 bedroom but was the design below ours when new and originally a 3 bedroom house. The bedrooms in ours are much bigger as is the lounge, they have no dining room either or conservatory. Plus that house backs onto a main road with buses stopping behind the back garden and overlooking it. Trivial but they still have all the old windows, we had new ones put in two years ago. I also think ours is better maintained than that one.

You have a lovely home, the pictures are stunning. I understand everything you say but all of that does not add up to £60k more of house over the other one. Your pricing is too high.