How many viewings?

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Before you sold your house?

I don't want to say because you will be jealous.

Swine.

13 I think. Sold within about 3 weeks, a couple of years ago. Was priced to sell, but still got more than one estate agent suggested we would get

13/3 weeks sounds good! Have had three so far but worried noone has fallen in love with it.

Sold two places in the last year in the North-West:

1. Sold after 12 months, ~15 viewings for 10% below asking, and in the end,for the same price as an offer made in week 1 by the first couple.

2. Sold after 4 weeks, ~13 viewings. Had priced 10% below anything else in neighbourhood (all of which had sat there for 6-18 months), had 3 offers and accepted one about 7% below asking (had a higher offer but these buyers were in a stronger position)

There are buyers out there (although not many outside of London/better bits of the SE) but you have to price realistically. If pricing the same as the stuff that isn't selling, then no surprise yours won't sell either. If it's sitting for 3 months without an offer then I'd suspect the price isn't realistic (unless a v unusual house/unpopular area).

27 in about a week

'twas at the height of the property boom and we had priced for a quick sale as we'd stupidly had our offer on our current house accepted (based in Scotland). Got stupid money for it too

1, on the 2nd day it was on. :) (only one day of keeping house like showhome)

This time last year.

We still haven't sold yet, since being on the market in July. Have been with 3 agents trying to get as many viewings as possible; had about 6 viewings in 8 wks over the summer with the first agent, then maybe a few more with the 2nd agent, one offer on the lower side of what we were hoping but fell through, now have had about 15 or so viewings since Christmas with this 3rd agent. Have had 2 '2nd viewings' but haven't had offers (yet).

We're in NW Kent so ideal for commuters to London & have reduced our price from an initial £150k (as advised by 3 agents, so not overpriced really) to offers over 145k then just 145 & now on the market at 130-150k. We had hoped to get 148ish but would just be happy to get an offer in the low 140ks now... We're not overpriced compared to other houses in the area, nothing major work-wise to be done & 15mins walk from high-speed rail link, so DO NOT understand why its not selling. It's not even if the decor is unusual (unless you call muted tones throughout & a white bathroom suite unusual) & layout is fairly typical for the terraces in the area.

I guess its just the market where we are... I think you can't go by an average or by what other people's experiences are because every house/area/agent is different. I think if we had chosen a better agent first time, we'd have been sold by now.

Only one day of tidying up-what a dream!!

Will give it three months then before we give up. (Don't want to drop price unless we can still afford to move!)

Oh that sounds a right pain Chicken. And sounds like a relatively cheap area too-you'd think that would be easier.

It is bananas -we've been saying 'just one more month then we'll stop' for ages now :( Thankfully all the time we're on the market, we're saving up & a house we've had our eye on since August hasn't sold yet & has had to drop the price, so we could be lucky and it could work it. It's just SOOOOO frustrating, living in limbo.

Fingers crossed for you though :)

Thanks Chicken, fingers crossed for us both. Have only just started with viewings and keeping the house tidy already seems impossible!

We had roughly 3 viewings a week for 3 months, lots of no shows and last minute cancellations too which is a nightmare when you have to keep it clean and tidy with 5 kids under 6! Just remember, you may have to accept lower then you want BUT it could even itself out by you offering (and vendor accepting) a lower offer. We had to accept a very low offer on our house but as we had a chain that had previously broken down, we were able to offer a lot less then our previous offer and all 4 of us in the chain took on part of that loss (if that makes sense?).

That does make sense. There are only a couple of properties we are interested in though (hardly anything available here) so will have to hope noone else wants them!

I have only got two kids (both over 5) so I cannot even comprehend what you had to go through!

Yes it was very stressful, I cried a lot just out of frustration, I didn't mind so much when people turned up, it was the ones who just never even bothered to ring to cancel, so rude. I would change plans constantly for viewings and juggle the kids and just for someone not to show was awful. As if I didn't have enough to do!! I don't plan on doing it again any time soon!

The pressure is on as I don't want to have to do this again for a long time either.

I can understand your tears!!