Take house off market to remarked in summer?

movingyear

Good evening 
our house went on the market in September, had a couple of low offers and average one viewer per week, but living near a railway line we knew it might be harder to sell so price shows this.  We wanted to beat the stamp duty holiday but that won’t happen now so we were thinking of taking it off for a while as it looks bad on Rightmove with the date be Being so old.  

We will do a few jobs and garden will look better for new photos or is it better to just sit it out? 
 

Grumpy_chap

If you do that, check how long the listing has to be off Rightmove before the new listing will still show the old "listed" date.  I thin it used to be 6 months, but may have changed.  Your current EA should be able to tell you this, so long as they think they will get the listing in the summer.  That may also work in your favour as if the EA receives an enquiry that is looking for "just your house" they may give "informally" share the details with the potential vendor and then make contact in the interim.  You'd need to agree a new arrangement with he EA before they'd introduce the buyer.

steve866

My property was on for almost a year because of a buyer pulling out. It still sold for around 3% under asking.

Why are you moving? What if you see something perfect in a month?

numbercruncher8

The main issue is still going to be there in the summer, right? 
It it's been some time maybe the price does not reflect things as accurately as you think. A small number of viewers and low offers kind of suggests it was overpriced.

If you want, you can stick a link up and people can offer some reasons why it is not getting many viewers in.

movingyear

Thanks for replies, I might give in the notice and mention to the agent if any serious viewers want to see it they still can, I will reassure them we will use them again and not a different agent.
Stamp duty holiday would of saved a buyer quite abit of money now it’s close I fear we won’t get any interest at all.
It was mainly due to the holiday that we put house on market but if we have to stay so be it. It was only because we fancied a change and thought timing was right!

amandacat

Would another option be to change EA? I saw a local property on the market for 6 months, they then changed EA and it jumped back up as a new listing on rightmove. It was sold within a month. 

numbercruncher8

Adjusted for condition pricing it below comparable properties should generate interest. IMO very few things are totally unsellable.

As a person who grew up with a tube line directly behind the back garden I think it's a non-issue. Considering that trains run in both directions there was probably a train every 1-2 mins in peak hours. But I bet, like me, that you got so used to it that you barely even noticed them after a while. I am sure most others who live close to the trains would concur.

GDB2222

I’m sure that it’s perfectly saleable at the right price that reflects the drawback of the railway line. 

I’d happily live next to a line that has mostly trains powered by electricity. I’m not so sure about diesel, though.