Viewing after offer submitted

TIGASH

Sistergold said:

TIGASH said:

Intresting 

I'm a FTB. Had no intention of viewing before completion but a colleague advised viewing between exchange and completion. 

Have to get drains looked at so was going to go in with the tradesman and measure a few things. Will make it more worth while for EA to drive out as property in the country. 

I thought it’s better to view just before exchnage as between exchange and completion becomes very complicated to do anything as you are almost forced to complete irrespective of? 🤷‍♀️ After exchange it’s now really a done deal almost? 🤷‍♀️

That's a really good point. Thanks

ka7e

Viewed my current property 3 times. First with EA, owner had moved out but most of their furniture was still still in place. A week later went back with a builder to get an estimate for alterations/modernisation. After exchange, I visited with my sons and by chance the owner's family were there tidying the garden. It gave me a chance to get some history about the house as the same family had lived there since the 1930s.

Jaybee_16

After my offer was accepted I viewed twice more but had to plan the visits when I had nothing else to do as vendors offered tea and biscuits so I usually ended up staying around two hours each time.

Murphybear

Quite a lot.  We bought a bungalow from a lovely old couple who couldn’t manage the garden any more.  When viewing we offered on the spot and were accepted (it was a buyers market then).  The EA went back to the office to start the paperwork and we sat in the conservatory with tea and cake. 

We were invited back for measuring up etc and more tea and cake.  On one occasion we had a garden tour and got to know all the many plants and flowers.  

Things are so totally different now 

666666

Murphybear said:

Quite a lot.  We bought a bungalow from a lovely old couple who couldn’t manage the garden any more.  When viewing we offered on the spot and were accepted (it was a buyers market then).  The EA went back to the office to start the paperwork and we sat in the conservatory with tea and cake. 

We were invited back for measuring up etc and more tea and cake.  On one occasion we had a garden tour and got to know all the many plants and flowers.  

Things are so totally different now 

This story gives me such a lovely feeling... really wish we can still be that close, trusting, friendly and civil... less stressful and cold. Everything is so transactional nowadays 

Skiddaw1

We relocated from Berkshire to Cumbria so only viewed our current house once. We drove past it a couple of months before we moved up here but didn't go in. Our vendors were lovely so we had no concerns.

@Murphybear's story is lovely. I had tea and cake with the people who were originally going to buy our old house (sale fell through due to unexpected redundancy). The people (also lovely) who eventually bought ours came round once after offer was accepted to measure up.

KnittingAmy

After our getting our survey back, we had a viewing to check we were ok with some of the issues raised.

We've just had one further pre-exchange viewing - we hadn't planned to, but the house is unoccupied and we wanted to make sure it hadn't been damaged by the storm last week.

Noneforit999

As a current vendor selling their house, the buyers have not asked to view it yet and we are about a third of the way through the process....I think.

I think its entirely reasonable for the buyer to ask to view the house before exchange and/or completion. Although I wouldn't be entertaining them wanting to view it multiple times as its a drama for us with a dog we have to take out of the house and a toddler to try and entertain etc so we need some time to get things in order before they visited. 

TheJP

I think 3 viewings is more than enough (obviously any surveys you may take as well), I cant understand why people think its ok to want to go in and 'measure up'! Do it in your own time when you own the house.

666666

TheJP said:

I think 3 viewings is more than enough (obviously any surveys you may take as well), I cant understand why people think its ok to want to go in and 'measure up'! Do it in your own time when you own the house.

I think because the buyer forks out hundreds of thousands of pounds buying it? I mean we get to try out clothes and bags to see how it fits, able to return it and in some cases the seller would try to accommodate returns to be as painless as possible. Some people wants to order furniture in advance and furniture can take 6-8 weeks or even more to be delivered and if they are expensive furniture I would not want to find out it doesn't fit in the space or having to sleep or sit on the floor for 2 months considering how much money the purchase is costing us just because the seller find it inconvenient for us to measure up the place in advance. I personally think it's a basic customer service. Obviously if the buyer keep coming back 4-5 times that's excessive but if they just come 2-3 times and would like to measure up during that time I would find it acceptable. Especially if they are being courteous and polite about it.