8 viewings and counting

babyblade41

MalMonroe said:

Don't forget there will always be the nosy ones who have absolutely no intention of buying but who love to take a trip to look around a property. We had a few of those last time we sold!  And the problem is that you can't tell who is genuine and who isn't. Or is that just me?

I did try to do that thing of having just baked some bread (the 'finish off yourself at home' kind of bread, I'm not totally daft!) Not to mention the 'fresh brewed coffee' thing to make the home smell cosy. We did sell, so I think those tricks worked! Yay. 

Good luck! 

I always make sure any viewers are in a position to proceed & they must be under offer .
No "under offer", no viewings 

ironlady2022

babyblade41 said:

MalMonroe said:

Don't forget there will always be the nosy ones who have absolutely no intention of buying but who love to take a trip to look around a property. We had a few of those last time we sold!  And the problem is that you can't tell who is genuine and who isn't. Or is that just me?

I did try to do that thing of having just baked some bread (the 'finish off yourself at home' kind of bread, I'm not totally daft!) Not to mention the 'fresh brewed coffee' thing to make the home smell cosy. We did sell, so I think those tricks worked! Yay. 

Good luck! 

I always make sure any viewers are in a position to proceed & they must be under offer .
No "under offer", no viewings 

When you say under offer, do you mean they need to have some their house? 

shefmarkh

mayling03 said:

shefmarkh said:

mayling03 said:

My house went up on right move yest, less than 24hrs later, I've got 8 viewings booked. It's madness!

I know this may not translate into offers but still, wonder how many more to come lol

If it's been popular, how long before you've closed your viewings?

I had in my head 2 weeks but might be able to reduce this down to 1.

I had 20+ viewings and 2 offers. One of those offers was withdrawn for being made to wait for an answer to be given (which is what the estate agent advised me to do on the grounds I would get a lot more offers), so if you get a good offer you could consider just taking it straight away.

On the buying side we have seen typically a house gets 1-2 offers from 5 -10 viewings.

This is really useful - thank you. Would you have gone with the withdrawn offer? I know my house is in a sought after area, so I think I can hang out. If they wish to withdraw just for me to think about it, I would think they are a nightmare to deal with anyway!

the withdrawn offer was extremely good, so we would have accepted it.

ReadingTim

RS2OOO said:

We had 13 viewings booked within 24 hours of listing.

12 turned up on the viewing day.

Couldn't resist taking a peak at the CCTV - virtually all went into front door, 1 minute later came out of back door, spent 10 minutes of their viewing time looking at the Koi Carp, then went back inside, then 4 minutes later out the front door.

Well, we knew straight away they must have all been timewasters, how can you be serious when you've only spent 4-5 minutes in the house.

Monday morning we had 10 offers.

But don't get excited from that. The next 7 months was hell, but the sale did finally go through.

It's a bit speedy, but if the place has a good ad with quality photos, a floorplan and a relatively standard layout, then most buyers ought to have a pretty good idea about the place before they've even left their own house, and the purpose of the viewing is to see how the place makes them feel - which they usually get within seconds of walking in the door.  

RS2OOO

mayling03 said:

RS2OOO said:

We had 13 viewings booked within 24 hours of listing.

12 turned up on the viewing day.

Couldn't resist taking a peak at the CCTV - virtually all went into front door, 1 minute later came out of back door, spent 10 minutes of their viewing time looking at the Koi Carp, then went back inside, then 4 minutes later out the front door.

Well, we knew straight away they must have all been timewasters, how can you be serious when you've only spent 4-5 minutes in the house.

Monday morning we had 10 offers.

But don't get excited from that. The next 7 months was hell, but the sale did finally go through.

Hell, as in waiting around? Or hell with the actual Buyer?

In short, the actual buyer.

First buyer pulled out approx. 6 weeks in, 2nd buyer went AWOL after a fortnight, 3rd buyer was one of those 12 initial viewings, a BTL investor, extremely clueless, dragged it on for Months with numerous failed exchanges and completion dates, but got there in the end.

My previous property had 19 viewings booked within a couple of days of listing, all for an open day, one couldn't make the open day so we agreed for them to view the night before. They offered there and then and it was far higher than the open day offers, but I did wait for all open day offers to come in before accepting. That transaction completed in 10 weeks, despite being leasehold with a very difficult management company.

Swings and roundabouts.

babyblade41

mayling03 said:

babyblade41 said:

MalMonroe said:

Don't forget there will always be the nosy ones who have absolutely no intention of buying but who love to take a trip to look around a property. We had a few of those last time we sold!  And the problem is that you can't tell who is genuine and who isn't. Or is that just me?

I did try to do that thing of having just baked some bread (the 'finish off yourself at home' kind of bread, I'm not totally daft!) Not to mention the 'fresh brewed coffee' thing to make the home smell cosy. We did sell, so I think those tricks worked! Yay. 

Good luck! 

I always make sure any viewers are in a position to proceed & they must be under offer .
No "under offer", no viewings 

When you say under offer, do you mean they need to have some their house? 

They must have accepted an offer on their property before viewing .  The agent will normally ask for other agents details & obviously can check on RM 

A lot of agents won't accept viewings unless they are under offer, it wastes too much time 

pipscat

mayling03 said:

pipscat said:

I'd wait until after the viewings to decide which offer to go for. We had 21 viewings on our house and offers straight away after first viewings, but we waited until end of the week and got 17 offers in all. We went with a cash buyer who pulled out after a week, but because we got so many offers we were able to go back to ones we rejected to see if still interested. Luckily they were.

I will do, if Buyers are willing to withdraw just like that or limit their offer, they didn't really want it in the first place. The Buyer that dropped out, what was reasoning? 

They didn't give a reason - she came for a second viewing with her daughter and then pulled. She was the first to view the house and put an offer in and my husband said she was really keen at the viewing and said she'd been looking for 12 months. I think she panicked due to the market, she had upped her offer after best and final offers. 

Thrugelmir

Judging by recent listings in my locality. There's certainly a degree of inflated prices now.  A twist on an old investment saying. 

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on scepticism, mature on optimism, annoy people on speculation and die on euphoria

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I think it is acceptable to buy now, as long as you accept that the market could "crash" soon and the property will lose value. As long as you can ride it out, there is no issue. It may take 5 or 10 years.

eidand

MalMonroe said:

Don't forget there will always be the nosy ones who have absolutely no intention of buying but who love to take a trip to look around a property. We had a few of those last time we sold!  And the problem is that you can't tell who is genuine and who isn't. Or is that just me?

I did try to do that thing of having just baked some bread (the 'finish off yourself at home' kind of bread, I'm not totally daft!) Not to mention the 'fresh brewed coffee' thing to make the home smell cosy. We did sell, so I think those tricks worked! Yay. 

Good luck! 

yeah, we also had lots of time wasters as well, you can't really tell.

one said it wasn't close enough to the hospital .... yeah, you could have looked at the map mate, you know? No need to come for a viewing.

another one, i can't walk around the house ... yes, that was obvious from the first picture, you dufus.

a third one, oh it has stairs ... yes every house does, unless it's a bungalow and ours wasn't ...

I can continue but you get the idea.