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Selling your house in 2006

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noddyholder · 28/12/2005 18:25

How many of us have our house on the market atm ?We were advised not to put ours on in December as it is so quiet but we wanted it out of the way and are now hoping to sell in the New Year Is the market still really slow?

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Glitterygook · 29/12/2005 10:45

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jenk1 · 29/12/2005 10:46

We are thinking of selling ours and renting for a while just to sell it and get it off our hands.

Has anyone done this and if so was is successful?

Furball · 29/12/2005 10:50

Ours is going on next week. Need to sort out the christmas aftermath first. Can't see anything we'd like to move to though, hopefully they'll be more of a choice in January.

dinny · 29/12/2005 10:52

Good luck to everyone selling. We spent a stressful two years trying to sell and it all came together just before Christmas. Thank goodness. January often has a little flurry of activity...

dinny · 29/12/2005 10:53

Jenk1, we've just sold to rent. Have nice bit of equity sitting in our ING account and we're waiting for the big recession to happen and prices to plummet before we buy back in. Well, that's Plan A....

Glitterygook · 29/12/2005 11:03

Dinny - a woman I go swimming with did that in the early 90s and she's still renting!! Not saying that will happen to you of course, just reminded me of her telling me!

According to the press prices are going up again aren't they? Not that I'm convinced, we've dropped ours by £15K!

dinny · 29/12/2005 11:06

ha, GG - will probably be renting still in 2020!

we were under offer in 2004 for 18k more than we sold for this year.

dh in the business and is CONVINCED this year will see the start of the fall.

still, suppose at the very least we've avoided the stress of a large chain.

Glitterygook · 29/12/2005 11:07

eek, let's hope mine sells in Jan then!!

MissJones · 29/12/2005 15:09

Market is really dead at the moment.

Estate agents valued our house daft.

We dropped our price by over £30,000 and its sold fairly quick after that.

It makes me mad when the BBC report house prices have risen yet again, they havent where I live.

OnTheFlossDayOfChristmas · 29/12/2005 15:32

I'm not selling but we are buying and relocating? Could I bend ears here if necessary? Gettin the feeling we might be in for a bumpy ride meaning we relocate but without the house. Have done the terrible terrible thing of already putting our furniture in the house in my mind... and decorating DS's room....and where to put our phone, calender, coats. I just couldn't stop myself. I will probably just do all your heads in actually.

noddyholder · 29/12/2005 15:47

We are just about to tackle the bedrooms as in extreme tidy up and new blinds etc This is a 3 storey house and the rooms at the top get a bit overlooked. We really want to sell soon so hope things pick up although estate agents in Brighton do seem really busy so fingers crossed xI am glad I started this thread as i think I'll be needing it to scream on in the weeks/months to come

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Pollyanna · 29/12/2005 16:18

where in Brighton is yours Noddyholder? We're hoping to move there in the summer.

We also have to do ours up and declutter it to sell it.

RandyRodent · 29/12/2005 17:30

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WethreelittlebabiesOfOrientAre · 29/12/2005 17:31

Glitterygook, are you in Timperley? Just going from the description in relation to motorways and airport etc. Really hoping you sell soon.

We moved in July'04 having had old house on market since Sept'03, and it was our first-and last- move with children. I am never moving again!!

What about going on a TV show like House Dr or Selling Houses?

ladymuck · 29/12/2005 17:41

Scarey - not only is a whole forum dedicated to a house price crash, but they've even got a thread discussing this one.

Isn't the internet a wonderful thing!

LIZS · 29/12/2005 17:45

That is a bit scary - threads about threads .....

ladymuck · 29/12/2005 17:48

Is randyrodent just a stirrer? Can't keep up with name chanegs at this time of year.

tamba · 29/12/2005 17:50

Quote from the link that was posted earlier -

"What?! Nor another forum full of muppets a la Channel4 4Drones, Extwats, and SlaughteredPig. Now go easy on them please as some maybe expecting...

A baby boom!"

homemama · 29/12/2005 18:02

GG, I have a friend in Sale who has been trying to sell her (lovely IMO) house since Feb this year, so I guess your area maybe particularly slow ATM. She is also in the catchment of that notoriously oversubscribed primary school in Sale. It seems to have made no difference.

Hope you hear something soon!

homemama · 29/12/2005 18:05

Oh and those new houses in Timperley didn't seem to be selling very well either. Last time we went, they were offering much better than usual deals inc, carpets and stamp duty paid.

ricky89 · 29/12/2005 18:55

Hello, I am from housepricecrash.co.uk, and I firstly just wanted to apologise for the quote (see above) from our thread discussing this thread. If you check out our thread, the person has now apologised. It was a misunderstanding, they had not realised that this is a website for mums.

More impportantly, the reason we find this thread so intersesting is that it is an example of "real" people beginning to figure out that the lies and spin peddled by the BBC and other media about the housing market do not match with what people are experiencing in real life.

MissJones sums it up when she says "It makes me mad when the BBC report house prices have risen yet again, they havent where I live."

Well, they have not risen anywhere. It is a lie. House prices are falling everywhere in the country, and properties are not selling, but the media are not reporting it, because all they do is regurgitating the manipulated figures issued by mortgage lenders and estate agents. You should also be aware that many BBC hournalists own buy-to-let properties, and therefore will try to talk up the housing market in their reporting. I did an interview on BBC Radio West Midlands yesterday and in the middle of the interview the show host himself admitted that he was a buy-to-let landlord himself.

If there is one lesson to be learnt from this discussion, then it is that you should all take the word of the media with a pinch of salt.

As for those people on here whose property is not selling, there is nothing wrong with the property. It's the price that's too high.

Glitterygook · 29/12/2005 18:57

littlebabies - yep!
Homemama - which school? are we talking SJ or BP? If you put an initial I'll know which one you mean!

tamba · 29/12/2005 18:59

Welcome to Mumsnet

I popped in briefly to the house price site and was Sovereign on there.

Glitterygook · 29/12/2005 18:59

ricky89 - if my house price is too high how come an identical house (without the new kitchen and bathroom ours has) just 4 doors down has sold at £5K over our asking price and another house, 4 doors the other way and smaller sold for our asking price? Both sold this summer and both have been on the market as long as mine.

tamba · 29/12/2005 19:04

theres a few comments about your house on that thread GG, maybe they will help? didnt read them properly just had a quick glance down the page

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