How many viewings to expect?

Mizydoscape

We went on the market yesterday! Exciting times but was wondering how many viewings we should expect to see being booked if the marketing is on point and property priced fairly?

I guess the answers might be anecdotal but would give us an idea. It is 2 bedroom end terrace with garden, on street parking, in market town in South Devon. Not a lot on the market at that price point at the moment. Coincidentally next door went on the market yesterday  as well but is bigger (3 bed maisonette with studio flat underneath) and is going to auction in July (in case that makes any difference).

ilikewatch2

I'd imagine that South Devon will be a much hotter market than where we are in the East Midlands. We listed our 2 bed city centre terraced house a couple of weeks ago - we had 4 viewings booked in on the day we listed - 3 of those made offers at/above asking price so we stopped any further viewings and went for best and final offers from the 3 who had already offered.

lincroft1710

The answer is the same as that for how long is a piece of string. 

What is more important is how many of those viewings translate into offers. Multiple viewings and no offers equals misery, only one viewing and subsequent acceptable offer equals happiness

Justonemorecupoftea

Hard to say. We went on the market on the Thursday, had 3 bookings the following Monday and 4 the following Saturday, then 2 the next Monday, 1 on the Saturday, 1 on the Monday (made an offer which we accepted after some back and forth) and 1 on the Thursday which we allowed as a) we hadn't accepted the offer yet and b) the EA forgot to tell us so the house was quite messy!

GDB2222

In a market town in South Devon, how many potential buyers are there currently for this type of property, in that price bracket?   If it's properly priced, most of them will come and view, but that might be most of a rather small number.  Still, that's the local area, and you don't need lots of buyers.

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Difficult for anybody to say really. Usually you'd expect a flurry of enquiries when the property first gets listed (providing its priced reasonably and its not a niche type of property). People will want to be the first to get in there especially if it is the sort of house that is in high demand for the area. 

I wouldn't be worried after just 1 day, but certainly if after a week you haven't had even a sniff of a viewing then i'd be getting concerned. 

amandacat

Devon-probably a lot.
I sold in Cornwall recently. House went on the market late in the afternoon one day in October. By the next morning by phone didn't stop ringing with bookings from the EA. Had 7 booked in the day after it went on rightmove- 2 for that day and 1 person offered asking price during the viewing with the EA so it was sale agreed the next day. My EA cancelled the other viewings due to it selling immediately for asking (was just before the market got really hot in Cornwall, so he said we got lucky to get asking price). My biggest regret was not telling my EA to keep the other bookings and see if anyone offered higher (as the identical house next door went for 30k more about 3 months later)

Crashy_Time

Can you link?

caprikid1

I think you cannot call the market currently, with people unable to now hit the stamp duty deadline you probably have missed the mark so to speak, many will delay now for six months or more till they know whats happening with Covid  / Brexit and the economy

Mizydoscape

It's a FTB or buy to let type house so either no or very small stamp duty liability. I've just heard from the agent they've got 16 viewings booked in currently 😊. The EPC is booked for next week so the viewings are after this has been completed.

Redwino222

I had forty viewers - suspect price was too low🙂