Why don’t people put for sale signs up?

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Looked at a house tonight on 5he outside, viewing next week, no for sale sign? Why iis that?

I didn't because I would have had my nosey neighbours knocking on the door, plus it creates a pressure, maybe imagined but I didn't want people constantly asking 'Have you sold yet?'. We were on the market for white and no one in the road knew which is how I liked it.

Buyers search on Rightmove now anyway, you don't need a board. It's not the 80's!

But if you want to sell, advertising?

My parents just sold without a sign. They were very adamant they don’t want the neighbours knowing (in fairness they are a bit gossipy) until surveys come back ok and it’s pretty much a done deal. They also refused putting the house online and would only show to people on the agent’s books in a position to proceed. They sold above asking in under a week so I don’t think the lack of a sign or anything else mattered!

Some locations have restrictions on putting sale boards up, either in local planning rules or in leases.

We were at the end of a cul-de-sac with no passing traffic. Would have been pointless.

It’s just advertising for the estate agent, isn’t it? Rightmove is the best way to advertise the property.

My estate agents were so slow in coming round to put the board up that the house had sold by the time they did it!

Because they don't want their house broken into when the sold sign is outside their house.

I refused a board. We sold in under a week and have viewings coming out of our ears from RM alone.

Looks like everyone has an issue with their neighbours...

It's pointless nowadays, everyone looks online, I remember as a kid my parents would drive around an area they liked looking for boards and if they were interested they'd go to the estate agents and ask for the details but today the houses are all online so no need to look for a sale board.

So it’s not that they don’t want to sell? I just assumed that’s wha5 you did..a sign, like a star in the sky..

We sold without a sign. I had no wish to inform the neighbours that the house was on the market. We too, were in a cul de sac, so pointless.

Where we are now, it’s not permitted to have a sale board for five years. Rightmove and the other sites are what is looked at. I suppose people will contact an agent once they’ve seen a property online.

We wouldn't have known about our house if it wasn't for the board outside. It was only because my parents drove past and saw it that we knew, and were then the first to see it.

I don't understand the not wanting the neighbours to know you're moving. What difference does it make if they know, and why would anyone care?

The first house we bought had no for sale sign up and no pictures of interior on the web, it was because of a marriage split the lady didn’t want to sell or leave her home but her husband did so I think she did everything possible to make it impossible.

It's just free advertising for the estate agents anyway. You just need to get the house marketed online.