Viewings - Accompanied or not?

ironlady2022

Hi,

What are everyone's past experiences on Buyers viewing my house. Should I be there? Shall I leave it to the EA? I like the idea of the former, so I can find out more about their situation.

TheJP

If an EA is handling viewings then the expectation is to leave them to it, give them the space to properly view your house. No one likes an owner lurking over the shoulder. It would be a turn off for me.

babyblade41

I prefer to leave it to my EA. They don't waste time, they  will (hopefully) already got their financial position & will not waste time with pleasantries 

jennyred

I liked the EA doing the first viewing, then we would do any second viewings. The same with the house we bought - the EA did the 1st viewing and then the home owner did the second one - which was better as we could then ask different questions which the EA would not be able to answer.

quotememiserable

Personally I like to handle viewings myself and I'm always happier if I'm viewing to meet the owners. Estate agents often say the don't know to the simplest of questions and tell people things that aren't correct.

propertyhunter

I really didn't like it when the howeowner was there. We couldn't be open and objectively discuss the house as we viewed each room because we didn't want to say something that the owner might not like to hear (e.g. this room is a little smaller than the floorplan suggests, the garden is a bit small or overlooked). 

user1977

One or the other, certainly not both of you crowding the place.

t1redmonkey

If it's an estate agent that hosts viewings, then I'd just leave it to them and go somewhere else while the viewing is taking place.  I reckon it makes some buyers a bit uncomfortable if the owner is there while they are viewing.

Thrugelmir

mayling03 said:

I like the idea of the former, so I can find out more about their situation.

I would have no interest in chatting. The EA is aware of my personal circumstances. I've booked to view the property and see whether the flow of the house, the room sizes, the location, the garden all tick my wish list. 

RoyalDad

I was always for the estate agent doing viewings but we did 5 out of the 12 viewings we had on our house (the 5 weekend ones). We got 4 amazing offers in the end and they were all from the people we showed around the house. I was actually in the house for one of the estate agent viewings and they were pretty rubbish, rather rushed and didn't know the answer to most of the questions. I show them around and then I tell them to go look again on their own whilst I sit in the garden. Worked a dream for me.

Dave_5150

Leave the viewings and negotiation to the Estate Agent as this is what you are paying them to do