No Offers On House After 3 Weeks - Normal?

howtoletthisgo · 2025-07-21T09:17:24+00:00

My house went on the market 3 weeks ago. We've had 11 viewings and no offers as yet. I'm interested in whether this is normal, in terms of the number of viewings we've had and if we should have received an offer by now? AIBU to expect some results by now or is it just way to early? Thanks. For context, it's a 3-bed semi detatched house in Southampton, valued at around £300,000 by the estate agents.

luckylavender · 25/07/2025 10:53

I’m selling my parents house. Have first viewing today after 4 / 5 weeks.

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howtoletthisgo · 25/07/2025 09:28

Thanks everyone. We're thinking of reducing to £290,000, and if still no results by end of September we'll pull it and relaunch in the new year.

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IamtheDevilsAvocado · 22/07/2025 04:12

howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 10:59

Thank you, this is helpful.

We're considering dropping to offers above £295,000 if we don't get any offers soon. We've decluttered and are carrying out a bit of painting to clean things up a little, but don't want to get into the realms of redoing the kitchen, for example, if buyers would want to change it anyway.

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Can you update the kitchen a bit by changing hardware etc? This doesn't cost loads but can give totally different vibe/modernise....

PrinceYakimov · 22/07/2025 03:24

I wouldn't drop the price yet unless you need a fast sale. It took 4 weeks and about the same number of viewings for us to get a first offer in London.

Geraldina · 22/07/2025 02:47

I wouldn't be concerned 3 weeks in. Nothing wrong with a bit of wood chip as long as it's not in the hallway - even a novice can DIY strip wallpaper. Good luck with your sale. It might be slow over the summer as PP mentioned so don't panic.

School catchment can make quite a difference too.

Nchangeo · 22/07/2025 01:04

howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 11:38

It's a 1930s property, no stud walls.

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I wouldn’t call a 1930s home modern by any stretch! So it won’t be that.

HateThese4Leggedbeasts · 21/07/2025 12:34

In my area nothing comes on the market over the school holidays and then in September there is a bump of activity. Your agent needs to be giving you information on what other houses they are marketing are doing, eg Is anything selling or moving and are new viewings coming through etc. ask enough questions to cut through their sales patter if you can.

user1471538283 · 21/07/2025 12:31

I sold my house just after the first lockdown of the pandemic and I took the EAs valuation as correct. I hardly had any viewings and no offers for a month. I think the speed of viewings was about right for then. But I thought it would never sell. I dropped the price significantly because I had to sell and it did within days.

Prices went mental then and now things have slowed down considerably with more coming to market each day.

To sell relatively quickly you may need to drop the price.

Mrsbloggz · 21/07/2025 12:30

It's normal in the sense that this is what normally happens if you've priced it too high.

WhatMe123 · 21/07/2025 12:27

Sorry I see you've had the feedback. If it's too much work for quite a few maybe consider dropping the price to allow for this?

WhatMe123 · 21/07/2025 12:26

11 viewings is a lot for no offer. What was the feedback? I'd the estate agent getting you this?

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howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 12:24

Bluevelvetsofa · 21/07/2025 11:51

It really doesn’t matter now what the valuation was four years ago when you bought it. If you can’t sell it at the price you’re asking, then you either drop the price, do some work to improve it, or take it off the market.

People are telling you it needs work, so you need to take that into account. They will be thinking about how much they need to spend.

We didn't buy it four years ago, that was the valuation we received when we applied for our mortgage.

Appreciate what you're saying, I'm just wondering if I 3 weeks is long enough or if I'm jumping the gun to drop the price.

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Bluevelvetsofa · 21/07/2025 11:51

It really doesn’t matter now what the valuation was four years ago when you bought it. If you can’t sell it at the price you’re asking, then you either drop the price, do some work to improve it, or take it off the market.

People are telling you it needs work, so you need to take that into account. They will be thinking about how much they need to spend.

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howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 11:47

ComtesseDeSpair · 21/07/2025 11:46

Four years ago, interest rates were a lot lower. Many people who may have been able to afford a mortgage large enough for a £300K property four years ago won’t be able to now due to far higher monthly repayments. This will be affecting the market for your property, whatever it was theoretically valued at by a lender several years ago.

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This is an interesting point, thank you!

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howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 11:46

JacquesHarlow · 21/07/2025 11:45

It's Southampton... not South Kensington. No one is owed house price increases year on year.

I'm not suggesting this at all. It was valued at £290,000 four years ago for our mortgage, so our recent valuation of £300,000+ seemed reasonable to me.

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ComtesseDeSpair · 21/07/2025 11:46

howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 11:39

It's frustrating, as it was valued at £290,000 four years ago for our mortgage so when the estate agents valued it at offers over £300,000 we didn't think this was outlandish.

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Four years ago, interest rates were a lot lower. Many people who may have been able to afford a mortgage large enough for a £300K property four years ago won’t be able to now due to far higher monthly repayments. This will be affecting the market for your property, whatever it was theoretically valued at by a lender several years ago.

JacquesHarlow · 21/07/2025 11:45

It's Southampton... not South Kensington. No one is owed house price increases year on year.

Anyonecanachieve · 21/07/2025 11:42

MatildaTheCat · 21/07/2025 10:30

The crucial information here is whether those viewers were in a position to proceed? You must ask your agent to check this.

We eventually sold last year after 4 months. Everyone agreed it was a great house but only one viewer had actually sold their own house and they bought ours.

Hang on.

This. My estate agent kept telling me they had people to view but like one needed a place for their camper van plane caravan on their drive and asked the agent to show them only houses that met this brief but they still showed them mine. Total nonsense.
So ask for feedback look if it is priced properly - look at local prices for same or better houses - look at sold prices.

nam3c4ang3 · 21/07/2025 11:40

Ours was in the market for near 6 months if I remember correctly.

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howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 11:39

T1Dmom · 21/07/2025 11:15

If people are saying work is needed, then yes youve overpriced and its putting people off.

It's frustrating, as it was valued at £290,000 four years ago for our mortgage so when the estate agents valued it at offers over £300,000 we didn't think this was outlandish.

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howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 11:38

Nchangeo · 21/07/2025 11:14

Because in older properties you are at worst going back to brick and floorboard or stone/ tile. In modern properties with stud walls, at worst you have no walls at all and you’re going back to some dodgy assemblage of plywood sheet on rafters or concrete. Newer are also built awfully.

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It's a 1930s property, no stud walls.

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ComtesseDeSpair · 21/07/2025 11:34

howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 10:59

Thank you, this is helpful.

We're considering dropping to offers above £295,000 if we don't get any offers soon. We've decluttered and are carrying out a bit of painting to clean things up a little, but don't want to get into the realms of redoing the kitchen, for example, if buyers would want to change it anyway.

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I would drop to £290-295K and then aim to expect offers around or slightly below that tbh. If nobody is offering when it’s listed at £300K, they aren’t going to suddenly decide to offer £300K when it’s listed “above £295K”, and many people find the “offers over” approach offputting and avoid viewing at all.

T1Dmom · 21/07/2025 11:15

If people are saying work is needed, then yes youve overpriced and its putting people off.

Nchangeo · 21/07/2025 11:14

Beachlovingirl · 21/07/2025 10:53

I’m my experience buyers will do modernisation work to older characters properties with original features. They are much less agreeable to doing work to a more modern house for some reason.
houses where I live go very quickly usually (couple of days to a week) there are some that hang around and usually get reduced and then get snapped up.

If you drop into the under £300k bracket your house will come up in more searches when buyers search on right move etc.

have you done all the obligatory de-cluttering and sprucing up that buyers expect?

Because in older properties you are at worst going back to brick and floorboard or stone/ tile. In modern properties with stud walls, at worst you have no walls at all and you’re going back to some dodgy assemblage of plywood sheet on rafters or concrete. Newer are also built awfully.

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howtoletthisgo · 21/07/2025 10:59

Beachlovingirl · 21/07/2025 10:53

I’m my experience buyers will do modernisation work to older characters properties with original features. They are much less agreeable to doing work to a more modern house for some reason.
houses where I live go very quickly usually (couple of days to a week) there are some that hang around and usually get reduced and then get snapped up.

If you drop into the under £300k bracket your house will come up in more searches when buyers search on right move etc.

have you done all the obligatory de-cluttering and sprucing up that buyers expect?

Thank you, this is helpful.

We're considering dropping to offers above £295,000 if we don't get any offers soon. We've decluttered and are carrying out a bit of painting to clean things up a little, but don't want to get into the realms of redoing the kitchen, for example, if buyers would want to change it anyway.

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