Anyone else joining the Boxing Day Hype?

esubbs

All the agents round here appear to be closed until after new year. Nothing new coming to market and no response to enquiries 🤷‍♀️

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Snookie12cat said:

I don't get it. The houses that came on, on boxing Day looked like the pictures were taken at least a month ago....
Why not list it when it was ready? What is this waiting for one day when the agents are all closed about? 

Any serious buyer goes on daily and knows what's about and when. 

So they are at the top of the new listings when everyone is bored on boxing day.

jenni_fer

Snookie12cat said:

I don't get it. The houses that came on, on boxing Day looked like the pictures were taken at least a month ago....
Why not list it when it was ready? What is this waiting for one day when the agents are all closed about? 

Any serious buyer goes on daily and knows what's about and when. 

Because they don't want people viewing during the run up to Christmas?

newsgroupmonkey_

Clearly everyone didn't read the memo.

I have searches for a 30 mile radius in a very populated part of the country for pretty much anything under £350k (in an area where £300-320k is the average for a small semi).

A whole 10 places hit my inbox on Boxing day. It's not been much busier. Speaking to a couple of local estate agents, it wasn't as busy as normal. Too many buyers, not enough properties.

Comptoncare

Comptoncare said:

My property will go live on the property portals on Boxing Day, with a view to hopefully getting some viewings and under offer whilst people are off during the Christmas period. Hopefully I will be in a decent position when any new property comes on the market in the New Year. I had my property under offer during the stamp duty holiday but kept being outbid on the onward purchase. So hoping 2022 goes a bit better.
Have also just accepted an offer on my rental property so people are still looking.

Update - had 14 viewing conducted over 2 days. Of the first 7 viewers I have 1 x asking price and 3 at £5k over the asking price. Awaiting update from the 7 who viewed it today. Looks like I will be able to accept one of these offers on Monday/Tuesday next week and then need to find my onwards purchase. Keeping my fingers crossed that something comes along.

strawb_shortcake

My local market is pretty dead at the moment. One village we would consider moving to, a couple I thought were over priced are now SSTC.
The only ones remaining are new builds and two priced at £695k and £795k both nice houses, but the cheaper on a main road and has been on and off the market for several years but same vendor. The other lovely home but likely to be  opposite a new train station and surrounded by a car park in the next few years.

jenni_fer

@Comptoncare Great news! Good luck for next week. Would be interested to hear how it goes and what you decide to do (highest price vs best position etc etc)

We had our viewing day today. We think we counted 10 sets of people through the door. Sounds like there was a last minute cancellation too. I'm told our previous potential buyers have expressed and interest which was unexpected!
Waiting to see what happens on Monday now.

We've only found one view-worthy property, I'm pretty keen but it's top of the budget and needs lots of work (and will probably go for way above asking anyway) but we will view and see what happens!

Comptoncare

jenni_fer said:

@Comptoncare Great news! Good luck for next week. Would be interested to hear how it goes and what you decide to do (highest price vs best position etc etc)

We had our viewing day today. We think we counted 10 sets of people through the door. Sounds like there was a last minute cancellation too. I'm told our previous potential buyers have expressed and interest which was unexpected!
Waiting to see what happens on Monday now.

We've only found one view-worthy property, I'm pretty keen but it's top of the budget and needs lots of work (and will probably go for way above asking anyway) but we will view and see what happens!

I accepted an offer today. Fortunately for me they were the best positioned and also offered the best price. 

jenni_fer

Perfect @Comptoncare!

We had two offers from our viewing day, gone to best and final so will see what happens next.

Back to worrying about finding something to buy, the market here seems to have completely dried up.

Comptoncare

jenni_fer said:

Perfect @Comptoncare!

We had two offers from our viewing day, gone to best and final so will see what happens next.

Back to worrying about finding something to buy, the market here seems to have completely dried up.

Found anything to buy yet? 
Making slow but steady progress with mine. Searches ordered, survey taking place week commencing May 2nd as they are so busy. 
My original buyers dropped out, no reason given but back up buyer found and they offered more again.  After the original buyers dropped out agent did 11 viewings in 2 hours at my property and I got five offers. Market is still crazy.