House NOT selling... AIBU?

[AllTheGin84]

HELP.

Our house has been on the market for 15 weeks... had an offer 4 weeks in at full asking price (woah!), then their chain collapsed and they are no longer selling.

Then we changed agent, went back on the market and dropped price by £30,000 (575,000 - £545,000).

5 viewings in a week, no offers, no interest in buying... WHY? WHY DOES NO ONE WANT MY HOUSE?

Its clean, ridiculously tidy, plain and neutral, lovely comments... but no on wants to even put an offer in!!!!! We have a viewing today, tomorrow and Saturday. What can I do?????

HELP ME MN, I AM DESPERATE TO SELL. This is seriously affecting my mental health.

Post some pics so we can actually comment helpfully, even if you don't want to disclose the location?

Otherwise I'll assume its because you've been telling them how much you like using the bidet and it's such a great feature of the house.

The refusal to post a link because a random might turn up is daft - a random could pick your house off of rightmove and just turn up....

Without any pictures or an area how on earth can anyone give you any advice?

As others have said, if you don't want to post a pink tot he advert, post just the pictures and a vague area instead - even if it is just "35 miles outside Exeter".

Its only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it. Valuing is only an educated guess.

The market has gone soft since March here.

I would say prices have dropped and there are fewer buyers around.

So it could just be that.
I would not even consider a property for that price without parking. And even then, its not something I'd want to compromise on. It would be one of my red lines.

Three floors is something we've avoided as it just does not work having a bedroom on a different floor if you have a small child (thats why we are moving). The town houses in are area are proving the hardest to shift. They just are not what people want for practical reasons.

Without seeing your house, I couldn't comment further though.

No, we really need to sell. I am pregnant and due in 8 weeks - meant to be moving to Switzerland.

Good luck with that, but if you think you are stressed now, the fun starts when you HAVE an offer.

We got an offer in Feb. Our house had been on the market just shy of a year.

The legal stuff was only completed this week. Its been a string of issues, cock up and incompetence from our seller, out buyer, our estate agent, our solictor, our buyers solictor and our sellers solictor.

If selling quick is your priority the way to go is the slash the price.

Not really any way around it. You can do a tidy, clean up, splash of paint etc... but you might find you have just about missed the boat for a good price this year as its now mid June and people are thinking about Summer holidays not moving house. Most people who wanted to move before the school holidays have probably done so.

Messing around? WE DROPPED the price by £30,000 just under 2 weeks ago. Not dropping it again! 3 houses around us on for £50k more and they are horrible!!! Loads just sitting on the market.

Well yes, you are messing around. If moving is THAT time critical. You needed an offer weeks ago, if you realistically want to make your deadline, as even if you get an offer today, you have no guarentee when you buyer is able to move and how long legal will take. Even if everything goes smoothly, you are cutting it find to do it in 8 weeks.

Face up to it, the chances are its not happening.

To be blunt about it, your expectations and reality are so far out of whack that you are just being ridicilous.

You need to completely rethink your strategy and plans to match reality.

Half a million in London with no parking is pretty standard in London for everyone sneering at the lack of it. This country is obsessed with parking and en suites.

If it is priced at over half a million pounds and there are problems with parking - then that is pretty much the problem I'm afraid.

This ^ is why asking people to comment without knowing anything about the house or the area is pointless. Where I live, £500K would get you a 3 bed terrace with no residents' parking, probably on a main road.

OP, it's price - it's always price. If you need to sell fast then you need to drop the price. Brexit is stalling the market and it's not going to get any better as another no-deal cliff edge looms into view.

Half a million in London with no parking is pretty standard in London for everyone sneering at the lack of it. This country is obsessed with parking and en suites.

If you live outside London, you try bloody getting anywhere!!!! 'This country is obsessed with parking' cos they don't HAVE public transport!!! 'This country' is pissed off with Londoners who fail to understand that public transport is a luxury (yes even if its unrealiable, expense and overcrowded).

As for en suites, I'm not remotely bothered about having one or not.

How about being there for the viewings?. I was selling a house a couple of years ago and eavesdropped on the Estate Agent on one viewing as the house was sticking, like yours.. His patter was non existent! He simply opened doors and let them view.
I then arranged an open house Saturday and was there and available for questions and we got 3 offers at the asking price from that day.
Open house also encourages competition.

Nice rant. I don’t live in London and don’t give a shiny shit about parking. My car’s perfectly happy outside the pub opposite.

Any house will sell at the right price.

I wouldn't want a house, no matter how beautiful, without a garage. An attached garage was literally my #1 requirement when we bought our house. But of course it depends on what's typical for the area.

If it's on three floors, is the master bedroom on the top floor? That would put off families who want/need that number of bedrooms but want to sleep on the same floor as their children.

House NOT selling... AIBU?

Yes YABU ^as you wont share the link we cannot tell you

OP if you’re desperate to sell and it’s not selling you’ve got 2 choices: rent it out or drop the price to make it irresistible. Those are literally the only 2 things you can do (assuming that it’s immaculately presented etc as you suggest).

If renting it out isn’t an option you need to put it on at a silly price to make sure it sells.

Right, 15 weeks isn't that long. And also depends entirely where you are. A house at the price you're asking anywhere near me will sit for half a year, because there's just not the market for it, not when you can get something of similar size for a couple
of hundred thousand less.
Consider the nature of your agent too. My friend is trying to sell her home for +£300k but her agent tends to deal in much lower value properties, to my mind they don't have the contacts, experience or client base to shift her property - it's in a seaside town, excellent location, needs a huge amount of work but should by rights have flown by now, it's been around two years!

Dress to impress - think in marketing terms -- sell a lifestyle not a house.

So yes get the coffee on, bake a cake/bread. Be busy doing something, be prepping lunch or be set up in the garden for eating out or have the kids doing stuff in the garden , swings climbers etc if there is family appeal. Get some greenery in - herbs, cacti, house plants with flowers (rather than fresh flowers if don't want to replace all the time etc). Create some feel good

I do not understand why you will not post a link, or at least pictures if the house is already on rightmove. If you want help, you will have to give us something to work with. We can't just imagine your house from the vague description given.

My car’s perfectly happy outside the pub opposite.

Is you house over £500,000?

You've also said you have somewhere to park your car. To me, parking includes enough availability of on street parking so I don't have to fight the neighbour for a space, which not all places have. I don't rule out on street parking - no parking to me includes a limited amount of on street parking.

I'd rather compromise on something else.

The photos could be of poor quality or unflattering angles of your house. It could be too clean and sterile and very unpersonal looking as though no one eactually lives there.

Otherwise I got no idea.

re Randoms turn up - isn't that called a buyer!!! Its free advertising get posting

OP can you post some internal photographs? We don't need the link, but we can't advise without a rough idea

Are there any garages for sale nearby? If so the purchase of one of those may help. Or can you put a drive anywhere? I had on street parking permit in my last home, and it sold within days, but it was just over 100k and 2bed.

Half a mil and 5 beds? I'd want parking for 2 cars guaranteed.

Yes @RedToothBrush, our house is north of £500k on account of being in the most desirable village for miles and 400 years old with beams and an inglenook. Next?

Op are you the person who keeps posting a link to a Georgian town house in Cheltenham (I think) asking people what they think, and pretending to be the buyer?

Someone has posted the same house twice and it meets the description of what you're selling.

Loads just sitting on the market.

OP, this is why your house isn't selling. Because in your area, supply is exceeding demand.

400 years old? Hell no. Beams? shudders
Thinks of the survey, the maintainence, draughts, possible listing status, cost of heating

No thanks.

I'd still want parking. In the nice area. In the North.