Support thread for house sellers

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Just what it says on the tin, really! I'm sure there must be other stressed house sellers out there? Hopefully we can band together and get some small joy of (hopefully?) seeing our houses sell so we can get a move on!

This is a thread of hand holding and mutual support for the EA dealings, weeks of silence, frantic house tidying, no-show viewings, silly offers and tough decisions. This is not for house bashing and price slating. There are plenty of other threads for that!

I've been trying to sell for a year now. Had a surge of viewings earlier in the summer making the right noises, but all has gone quiet for the last few weeks.

However, we have a viewing booked for later this afternoon from someone who has sold their house and is able to proceed - wanting to move before Christmas. Currently swinging between pessimistic and optimistic, while trying not to look at the house we want to buy!

Anyone else out there? :)

But on the plus side my house value estimate is way higher than I am marketing it for.

I would say not being on Zoopla isn't the biggest worry - not being on Rightmove would be a serious hindrance to a sale I reckon (though less so up here on the islands where it's more about having your property in the paper - given that our internet is so shit!!!!).

Wah closing in 3 hours. My friend has just texted me asking that if she isn't the highest offer we give her the chance to meet it.... she's a cash buyer and is flexible on dates which really works for us (given the uncertain arrival of the baby) but she is a bit fussy, overdramatic and (whilst I love her) she can be a real pain in the arse. All in all not who you'd really be wanting to go through legal stuff with.... but given that the sale price will be on the land registry / Scots registers it's not as if I can try to disuade her by quoting an inflated highest offer to put her off matching it. I also need to check with the solicitor to see if it is legal to do this anyway... as I thought closing was 'best and final offer'.

Wah....

I'd never actually heard of Zoopla up until a few weeks ago,its pretty big but I agree that Rightmove is still king!

Stay calm YellowWellies! Fingers crossed for a good outcome for you

The Scottish way of selling houses sounds great.

Well you say that but it gives you very little wiggle room for setting your own asking price. Most agents now are going for the home report value only when houses go on the market and surveyors are being very cautious (as lots are being sued for overvaluing in the bubble) so I think some English sellers would get a nasty surprise as many agents up here will chart the market each month and ensure that asking prices reflect any falls. This realistic pricing probably is the reason our market is still moving I guess.... but it doesn't tend to give much shrift to the 'not giving it away' lobby. Lots of agents simply won't take them on if houses are priced above HR valuation. Our HR valuation was £5k less than I'd expected / hoped for - but we took their advice. The clamour of interest we're seeing might suggest we were right and that it was pitched a bit low - but hopefully we'll have a bidding war and get close to what we'd like. Even if we don't we want to move on with our lives so hey ho....

On a plus note - NO MORE SODDING CLEANING! This nesting preggo lady is officially off nesting duties.

Hope the bidding goes well. A bit awkward with the friend thing though. Look forward to the update later. Hope you will be able to put your feet up and enjoy your pregnancy.

EA just popped round (their phones are down) to say the other half of the man who made the low offer popped in. She is still interested and EA asked her to think about upping the offer to something more sensible. Apparently he is thinking about it (it's his money) but she said to leave him to it... Hope he makes his mind up either way soon.

YellowWellies - will you hear today?

Any news YellowWellies?

The people who offered on ours have upped their offer by £10k. There are loads of viewers lined up for the weekend so we're going to wait till after then, but am thrilled as the figure on the table is what we were hoping for really. Don't hate me!

Ah, I don't hate you Woodlands. It's sounds like good news :)

I might hate you a little, Woodlands. We'll see what happens when our interested party finally get back from their holiday and let us know whether they're going to up their offer!

Another one interested in whether YellowWellies has heard anything! Though depending on the answer there might be more and .

Oooh sounds good Woodlands

Come on Yellowwellies we are impatient and want to know what is happening!

Hello - just spotted this thread & feels a bit like I've found a life raft in the ocean...

We are selling a 2 bed house as we have a 5 month old DD and need the extra space (DH works from home so we need a 3rd bedroom as a study).

Nearly 3 months on the market - we've had 2-3 viewings per week but no offers. I'm feeling rather despondent about it all. Feedback is usually 'bedrooms are too small' or 'I like the house but I want one like this £40k cheaper that I can do up myself').

Our contract with the EA is up next week so we'll be going with a new agent and hoping they can generate a bit more interest.

We wanted to be in a new house by Christmas but that's looking quite unlikely now...

We've been on the market for a whole day now and no offers. What's going on with the world.

The for sale board went up yesterday, the house is near as possible spotless, the three dc (4 if I count DH )are being rewarded for tidying up before school and bed. Now all we need are viewings.

I hate selling houses and its only one day in!

I want to hear about Yellowwellies too!!

We have a viewing for tomorrow but the Estate Agent didn't wax lyrical about them being in a wonderful financial position so I don't know how serious they are. The EA is also asking us about dropping the price. Think we will probably take it off the market and maybe try again next spring if we still feel like moving.

Hello all good! Just trying to sort out stuff with solicitors. Have three offers - one 1% over asking, one 12% over and one 13% over. Am chuffed to bits. We're going with the middle offer as it's not subject to survey and the buyer is totally flexible on move in dates and is happy to move in jan - so that gives us time to have baba up here in the wonderful hospital on the island. just spending a lot of the day on the phone as we need to change solicitor to prevent a conflict of interest on the closing... wah...

Yellow Brilliant news. All the best !

CONGRATULATIONS!

Are you going to tell them on HPC?

Island pace of life is not however helping us change solicitor quickly... answer yer fecking phones!!!!

I should stress that the 12% over asking only just allows us to break even on the refurb - so we're counting ourselves very very lucky in this market. Another house went to closing yesterday with our EA and got no offers :(

Congrats YellowWellies! My ILs are in Scotland, so much better system. I'm pleased you got price that allowed you to recoup everything.

I have just had an offer accepted! I saw this flat originally last november it was on teh market for 300k huge and in a lovely location but lady has lived in it 60+ years and so needs complete refurb. We decided against it at the time due to costs of refurb really.Dp sprung it on me the other day that he still loved it. So I sent an email to the agent as it was no longer on the website. He said he would speak to her and he thought I would have to offer as she found the whole process stressful last year. I offered 245k and she said she would talk to her sons and get back to me next weekend. An hour later she called back to the agent and said she had spoken to her son and they said she should go for it! Stay positive everyone I would never have got it for that price last year so things are changing albeit very slow!

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