Selling my house - was expecting an offer today??

kizzykizzywizzy

Sorry to hear you've had no viewings - so far..........
The house I was saying about up the road has been on the market since October & was on for a bit last summer too, but was taken off, at that time it was on for £159,995 it's just really the wrong time with all the media scaremongering going on, as the previous poster says - Do you really NEED to move right now?
I know what it's like to set your heart on something, as I feel the same, if I could just be satisfied with my lot,
PLUS POINTS= it's in a handy location, good primary & middle school ( will have to move before secondary school! that's pants, but I suppose could get better) 10 mins walk to hubby's work, 10 mins in car to mine, shops 5 mins, close to motorway, 20 mins walk to town centre, 20 mins drive to seafront, close to family
MINUS POINTS= Small garden, very built up area, feel we have outgrown it, as although always decluttering, just not enough storage, close to family:p

Perhaps you can do the same for your home PLUS/MINUS it may help you rethink, you know how I feel about your house, I think it's fab!

Snooze

Commonsensesearcher wrote: »

You seriously need, for your own short term happiness, to just try and forget about things for a bit. Selling a house is hard but ask yourself the following:
1. Do we have to sell - e.g. are the bank threatening repossession, have you got twins on the way and have run out of room or have you got neighbours from hell?
2. Have you lost your job?
3. Have you got uase of all your faculties?
4. Have you got good health?
5. Is the area in which you live surrounded by beautiful countryside?

This is not meant to be sarcastic but from the rest of your post I don't think any of the above apply to you except number 5 which I know definitely does apply. And for all of that you should take a deep breath, thank your lucky stars, take your OH or a friend out later and smile at the good things in your life!

Life is too short and will this new place REALLY, TRUTHFULLY have such a HUGE impact on your way and quality of life? Will that new BMW in place of the still decent Ford Focus make you so much happier inside? Will the new 42inch flat screen seriously enhance you as a human being? I appreciate your post makes no mention of Beemers and a new telly but I 'm sure you can appreciate the point. I suspect that, deep down, the answer may be no and sometimes we just have to appreciate the nice things we already have. Anything else is just a bonus...

Quite.

I admrie your huge enthusiasm 'oswestry' but I think you need to wake up. The market is taking a tumble and lender's have pretty much closed the door from being wide open to just a tiny gap. Reducing your price by just £10k in the current market will not change anything. Even if you dropped the price down to £100k I'd be suprised if you shift it this side of summer. No-one with any sense is buying because they know that the £100k house they buy now is gonna be worth £2.50 in 12 months time.

2p..

R

italia

Snooze wrote: »

Quite.

I admrie your huge enthusiasm 'oswestry' but I think you need to wake up. The market is taking a tumble and lender's have pretty much closed the door from being wide open to just a tiny gap. Reducing your price by just £10k in the current market will not change anything. Even if you dropped the price down to £100k I'd be suprised if you shift it this side of summer. No-one with any sense is buying because they know that the £100k house they buy now is gonna be worth £2.50 in 12 months time.

2p..

R

i suspect you are joking with the 2.50 in 12 months time. houses are of course only worth what people will pay for them, you have to bear in mind though that a house is always worth something because of the rent it can generate and rents are going up, prices may well drop back to where they are a good buy to let prospect but that is good news all round. once the rent will cover the mortgage they will start to sell to investers and there are those will the funds to buy when they do. the auctions i go to still have apartments going for 100k, ok so they were more like 150k on the open market last year but they still sell for 100 now as the rents cover the mortgage.people still need to live somewhere!

Snooze

italia wrote: »

and rents are going up

Really? Rightmove tells a different story. I was browsing rental prices in the Leeds area only a few months ago and I clearly remember crash-pads in Citispace (new Leeds centre apartment block) were on for around £500-575 pcm. Look at it today and the exact same ones are on for £395 pcm, and plenty of them too.

Other places which I'd personally considered (£450-500pcm bracket) are still advertised too, but now at £350-400 pcm, and if you believe any of the posts on here, Leeds is supposedly one of the areas least affected by the "correction".

:eek:

Rob

oswestry123

OMG.... I am so frustrated I just wrote a well thought out response and clicked submit and it made me sign in and I lost the whole bloody thing. Arghhhhhhh!!

From what I can remember.....

Thanks Kizzy, Common, Snooze & Italia for your kind comments.

I guess I am a bit immature as I'm only 25 and I thought that if you wanted to move you put your house up for sale if it was nice (like mine) it sold within a week and you got the house you wanted. I didn't even think about it not selling and me finding somewhere I wanted and that selling to someone else!! I know now how nieve I have been.

Kizzy, your positives and some of your negatives about your house are the same as mine. Weird, hey!! Thanks for being kind to me.

Common, thinking about it you are right we don't need to move at all its just a want. I need to chillax as my husband thinks I'm a physco as I keep going on about it all the time. I have to admit that I'm turning into a phsco b*tch from hell over the whole thing!! I will try and just act like we aren't even selling.... who am I kidding as soon as I get a call to say I have a viewing I will run around the house all excited do a roley poley and tell my husband I have a good feeling about the viewing and I think we have defo sold!!

I am really going to try and forget about selling the house though, I'm going to go down the pub tonight with my friends!!

Thanks everyone xx

Mum_of_Boys

I need to chillax as my husband thinks I'm a physco as I keep going on about it all the time. I have to admit that I'm turning into a phsco b*tch from hell over the whole thing!! I will try and just act like we aren't even selling.... who am I kidding as soon as I get a call to say I have a viewing I will run around the house all excited do a roley poley and tell my husband I have a good feeling about the viewing and I think we have defo sold!!.........

You're not on your own, my husband has sworn that he'll never move again after going through 6 months of hell (as he calls it), whilst living with me when we were in the process of moving. Think I turned him to drink!!!! :eek:

Please do try to forget about the whole house process and go out this evening and have a ruddy good night. :beer:

airhostess

oswestry123 wrote: »

who am I kidding as soon as I get a call to say I have a viewing I will run around the house all excited do a roley poley and tell my husband I have a good feeling about the viewing and I think we have defo sold!!

Hehe, this made me laugh, I was just the same when I was selling my flat!!
Make sure you don't scare the buyers off by being too enthusiastic. If you are too keen to show them everything about the house, they might not feel like they have space/time to look around alone with their own thoughts, which is important for them to do. Dare I suggest it... maybe let your husband or the agent do the next viewing?

Best of luck with it all!

space_rider

I put my house up for sale when the football was on summer 2006, can`t remember what the significance was! Anyway, didn`t get any viewers until England was out. Then I had that many viewers in the first week that I was getting fed up. Did sell by the end of the week. I was lucky as it was at the right time just before house prices started to fall.

Your house is lovely and if it was put up for sale summer 2006 i`m sure it would have sold by now. It`s a bad time for house sales right now and seeing as you don`t need to sell I would try and be a bit more laid back about it. You`re already stressed, how are you going to be when someone does put in an offer as that`s when it really does get bad. Try and chill out. It will sell, you just need to wait for the right buyer. In the meantime no point in really looking for houses as you will be disappointed. I found the perfect house for me and my brood and it sold 2 days before I got that offer. I even asked the EA to keep my name on their file just in case that sale fell through. Unfortunately it didn`t.

dopester

italia wrote: »

ok so they were more like 150k on the open market last year but they still sell for 100 now as the rents cover the mortgage.people still need to live somewhere!

Yes.. of course this credit crunch is keeping employment
stronger than ever, and actual unemployment figures dropping.

The demand for city bankers never stronger, and JJB sport
opening loads of new branches I hear, new cars selling in
record numbers no doubt, and pubs are opening in record
numbers to the briskest trade..... yeah, the rental market will
be strongly supported.

Just a blip. Hold tight and your sure to sell at 200% profit it's
risen these past few years. In today's market a £25,000 income
earner is surely desperate to want a house at 6 times his salary.

The lenders can't lend the money quick enough.

neas

Lol i seen that before :P HPC hehe.