Agent has messed up price reduction on Right Move

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I wouldn't stress too much, serious buyers will find it. Yes, I search initially for new in the last 24 hours but I also regularly search all properties/times to make sure I haven't missed anything or as someone else has mentioned, places I initially diregarded as being over priced on the basis that the vendors are hopefully more likely to be willing to consider offers or will be thinking about a price reduction.

Ultimately if you're not getting any interest then it will be price.

Davesnave

electricdreams said:

AdrianC said:

Don't forget that many people will have browser extensions installed, so they'll see the price history.

. I just would like to make sure it gets seen by as many people as possible. The more the merrier!

Put it on here in the 'Look at This!" thread, slagging-off it's worst visible feature. Hundreds will see it then!

cattie

I'm struggling to see how the agent 'messed up price reduction'. Going by your original post, both reductions were instigated by you, so if anybody has 'messed up' the outcome, surely it's you as you didn't stipulate a large enough reduction to try to garner some interest?

electricdreams

cattie said:

I'm struggling to see how the agent 'messed up price reduction'. Going by your original post, both reductions were instigated by you, so if anybody has 'messed up' the outcome, surely it's you as you didn't stipulate a large enough reduction to try to garner some interest?

Yeah, fair enough - and I did wonder about wording it that way. But I also think that, when I told them that one of my perceived benefits of reducing the price was that it would trigger it being given that small ‘kick’ on right move, I’d have hoped (and expected!) the agents to know how best to achieve that. 

Ultimately my only real reason for this thread was to ask ‘can I get in touch with right move myself to get them to update their system in some way’ and it appears the answer is no - so in which case I’ll just wait and see if I get any new interest at the new lower price. If not then I’ll reduce it further as necessary. 

Insomniac101

I was told by EA when we were stuck after two buyers dropped out that you have to drop to the next price bracket for it to show as “reduced” on Rightmove.  So we were on at £350,000, for it to trigger it to go on top of searches we would have to drop to 325,000

Crashy_Time

Titus_Wadd said:

New agent!  They'll take current Spring photos, no Xmas clues that say "we couldn't sell at this price".  Ditch the old agent, and sign up with a new one as soon as you can opt out of the current contract.

You'll provide your current agent with a valuable life lesson that they will remember the next time they suggest a price drop to their clients!

People using PropertyLog or similar can see all your price drops and length of time on the market anyway?

Crashy_Time

SpiderLegs said:

electricdreams said:

SpiderLegs said:

No you can’t.
Anyway you are dreaming if you think that suddenly reappearing as a new listing is going to fool anyone.

I’m not trying to “fool anyone” 🤷🏻‍♀️  

Just want as many people as possible to see the listing. Basic marketing 101, innit. 

Ah ok, sorry I thought you were trying to make people think your property that has been on this site for a while was instead a new listing.

How about rather than ‘fool anyone’, we say you want to make them believe something that isn’t true.

Technically it would be a new listing in the lower price band, so no one is really being "fooled"?

juliedee4663

This really annoys me about Right Move. We lost our 2nd buyer just after Christmas and had to put the house back on the market again, each time it hasn't shown on Right Move for anyone doing as search "added in the last 24 hours" and shows it has been listed since July 2020. However, the house we were purchasing went straight back on Right Move, at a higher price than we were paying, showing as a new listing in January, when it had really been for sale since August. Have absolutely no idea how they managed that.

Really annoying, and I know where the OP is coming from as we really felt it reduced the number of people seeing our property listing. However, we have managed to find another buyer, and got lots of viewings anyway without the "new" listing.

rik111

Anyone serious about buying a house will search all available property within their price range, probably on a daily basis, I certainly did. Bumping it to listed in last 24hrs wont make a difference, you are grasping at straws and probably doing your agents head in.

Crashy_Time

cattie said:

I'm struggling to see how the agent 'messed up price reduction'. Going by your original post, both reductions were instigated by you, so if anybody has 'messed up' the outcome, surely it's you as you didn't stipulate a large enough reduction to try to garner some interest?

That is probably it, small price drops won`t attract much attention.