House not selling

youth_leader

Wishing you the very best of luck.  I had a listed grade II railway station and it needed a lot of work, I had about 33 viewers over six months and the feedback was always too much work.  In the end I was so anxious I stopped cooking in case the house smelt of cooking, it was so stressful. I ended up going to auction, I don't recommend it.

ReadySteadyPop

Hb92 said:

Yes the new buyers are FTB. They apparently had another viewing of the house on Saturday so they could show round some family. I am supposed to be hearing from the sale progression team today. When i spoke to the EA on Friday morning they said the buyers were popping in with ID and the contact details for the solicitor and then the sales progression team would be in touch today as they don't work over the weekends. I haven't heard from them yet but it's still early. I'm really not getting my hopes up though just incase

FTB often get a bad press on here for some reason.

Hb92

I think because a lot of them have no idea of the proper processes and how it all works. Spoke to the EA yesterday and he was due to go in with his ID and finalise some mortgage paperwork as he is using the mortgage advisor from the EA. Apparently all was good at the viewing so no reasons why the offer won't go through at this point. I have to keep reminding myself that some people just don't get jobs done as quick as me. It's a week today since we accepted the offer so i'm hoping they now have the ID and the sales progression team will contact me today. Fingers crossed

Bigphil1474

FTB's can sometimes have high expectations and low levels of flexibility IME. Hopefully they won't run when they see the survey. The survey we had on our old house was better overall than the survey on our newer house, we weren't put off as we could see the important stuff wasn't much to worry us, but the first buyer we had on ours pulled out. 

ReadySteadyPop

Hb92 said:

I think because a lot of them have no idea of the proper processes and how it all works. Spoke to the EA yesterday and he was due to go in with his ID and finalise some mortgage paperwork as he is using the mortgage advisor from the EA. Apparently all was good at the viewing so no reasons why the offer won't go through at this point. I have to keep reminding myself that some people just don't get jobs done as quick as me. It's a week today since we accepted the offer so i'm hoping they now have the ID and the sales progression team will contact me today. Fingers crossed

Looking positive so far.

Hb92

Bigphil1474 said:

FTB's can sometimes have high expectations and low levels of flexibility IME. Hopefully they won't run when they see the survey. The survey we had on our old house was better overall than the survey on our newer house, we weren't put off as we could see the important stuff wasn't much to worry us, but the first buyer we had on ours pulled out. 

Yeah they don't really understand how the traffic light system works and what is a worry and what's not so i am finding this daunting. Although we only had our survey on the house done about 2.5 years ago so nothing much should have changed. We have maintained it as best we can and it mostly had greens when we bought it.

Not heard anything as of yet so now i'm wondering if he actually turned up to the office yesterday! Never been an anxious person but now i have anxiety through the roof

ReadySteadyPop

Hb92 said:

Bigphil1474 said:

FTB's can sometimes have high expectations and low levels of flexibility IME. Hopefully they won't run when they see the survey. The survey we had on our old house was better overall than the survey on our newer house, we weren't put off as we could see the important stuff wasn't much to worry us, but the first buyer we had on ours pulled out. 

Yeah they don't really understand how the traffic light system works and what is a worry and what's not so i am finding this daunting. Although we only had our survey on the house done about 2.5 years ago so nothing much should have changed. We have maintained it as best we can and it mostly had greens when we bought it.

Not heard anything as of yet so now i'm wondering if he actually turned up to the office yesterday! Never been an anxious person but now i have anxiety through the roof

Is there anything in particular that they are worried about?

ReadySteadyPop

Hb92 said:

Bigphil1474 said:

FTB's can sometimes have high expectations and low levels of flexibility IME. Hopefully they won't run when they see the survey. The survey we had on our old house was better overall than the survey on our newer house, we weren't put off as we could see the important stuff wasn't much to worry us, but the first buyer we had on ours pulled out. 

Yeah they don't really understand how the traffic light system works and what is a worry and what's not so i am finding this daunting. Although we only had our survey on the house done about 2.5 years ago so nothing much should have changed. We have maintained it as best we can and it mostly had greens when we bought it.

Not heard anything as of yet so now i'm wondering if he actually turned up to the office yesterday! Never been an anxious person but now i have anxiety through the roof

Did it sell?

Hb92

Eventually agreed a sale for a measly £147k and currently at enquiries stage. All paperwork completed so just waiting for a completion date.

ReadySteadyPop

Hb92 said:

Eventually agreed a sale for a measly £147k and currently at enquiries stage. All paperwork completed so just waiting for a completion date.

I think in this market that is a reasonable outcome, at least it allows you to move on?