How long did it take for you to get a viewing on your £800-900k house in home county?

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Appreciate your input if this applies to you.

Already very concerned we need to make a reduction

My heart bleeds.

Why reply if you’re going to be rude you have no idea what situation the op is in.

Well I've a shed up on the freecycle and a load of people lined up to take it.

My life has not been easy. Lost my mother (immigrant) to cancer as an eight yo. Bought a property 25 years ago that increased in value massively.

Selling up now as we need a bungalow for FIL.

No need to be nasty.

My neighbours had viewings within the first day and it took about 5 weeks to sell.

On all sorts of anti anxiety meds - pregablin, venlaxafine etc.

Just hoping for input as I do not necessarily trust my estate agents.

Launched at £900k substantial farmhouse almost 2 acres of garden two large stone barns plus holiday home in grounds of 1 acre
sold twice chain collapsed dropped and dropped price to £650k still no buyer almost 2 years
flabergasted it’s not sold

Here things are selling well in the 750-850 but the things 900+ are taking longer. Though there is lots of choice here in that bracket so it depends. You only need one person. Good luck.

Anything over £750K seems to take a long time to sell here (Berkshire).

£500K - £750K seem to sell in the same week.

Where is this?!???

I'm not currently selling, but live in a village with similarly priced homes, and keep a regular eye on rightmove (because I'm nosy and love a look around houses!).
There are 6 homes currently up between 750k -925k. The one priced at 925k has been on for 2 years and was originally priced at 1.5 million (newly renovated grade two listed). It is over the road from my house so I have seen it sit and sit with very little interest. The other ones have all been on for 9 months plus (some well over a year) and have been reduced in stages. I'm obviously not sure of interest levels, but it does seem they are taking a long time to shift.

I sold my parents’ house recently. We got viewings within the first week and had several per week for 3 weeks, when we accepted an offer.

North wales

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/132502658#/?channel=RES_BUY

Better to post in Property, or you will get the YABU snark. It's not an AIBU issue but posting it here makes it so.

What area approx is it? What’s the spec?

Depends, if it has space and extra bedrooms or an office. You say Home Counties, as long as it is not too far out, houses in that range go quite well, due to Londoners wanting more space.

Op don't feel like you need to justify - some people are just envious and unpleasant without having any understanding of anything other than a house value. They're sad people.

Agreed

FWIW we’re in Hampshire (10mins from Surrey and Sussex borders) and the house we were renting in a village, 5 bedrooms, was put on at £925K about 5-6weeks ago. They’d had only two viewings before we moved out 2 weeks ago and have dropped their price to £900K

no idea if they’ve had more viewings since but it’s still up for sale

currently on rightmove as a premium listing - recently renovated. Described as being in “excellent condition”

4 beds, study.

30 mins from London by train

I think it very much depends on the property and the value for money at what it's being marketed. We are not in the home counties, but when we bought our house (in that price range, but much more rural), we viewed it twice in the first week it was listed and made an offer by end of week. By contrast, our neighbours are currently selling their property (at £875K - which is overpriced) and they've had two viewings in the 3 months since it was listed.

I think we’ve been very fair with price and looked at a lot of comparison properties.

There is a house down the road with the exact same square footage being valued at 150k more.

To be fair, it does have more bathrooms than us (could be added in ours). But they are on a busy main road whereas we are not.

Why would your estate agent be untrustworthy? They'd get commission, right?

There's a very nice site called Inigo, for properties priced like yours. They might be an option (it's hard to tell from your post).

Anything up to 45 mins by train to London is sought after especially now with wfh 2 or 3 days a week, but the places near those stations are sometimes poor value space wise. Ppl are better off with a 15 min drive to a station and get a bigger family home, you can park for a fiver all day at my nearest station.

Are the estate agents pressuring you to reduce?

Our house is sadly not on that level. A very normal home on a cul de sac. Large plots as it is not a new development (60s) but depressingly very unremarkable despite price tag.