Scottish buyers/sellers support

[Sleepybunny]

Wondering if there are any Scottish MNers house buying/selling and looking for support?

I was going to join the other buyers/sellers support thread, but realise the Scottish system makes the issues encountered a bit different.

We've just put our home on the market (today!) Seems to be a very quiet market at the moment so it's making me nervous.

No viewings as yet, but I'm thinking (praying) its early days.

Anyone else out there in a similar situation?

S1 homes too.

Must depend where you are then - Riightmove just isn't used in NE Scotland - only big country house agents like Savills and new home builders use it, all of the solicitors use the local solicitors property centre. Aberdeen City - 278 results including SSTC on Rightmove, 2598 on ASPC.

Rightmove huge here in Central belt, although there are still some that only appear on S1 or GSPC/ESPC. Alas not looking north (although I would love to one day - nearly got a job up there a few years ago and still think wistfully about it).

Bumping this to celebrate. We had an offer accepted! Less than the o/o price and home report valuation too, but it had been sitting on the market for a while in an area where family houses usually go fast. Very chuffed. Now off to get a mortgage!

Randomly Dundee is similar!

Must be a NE thing? Inverness is well represented on Rightmove.

It seems very short sighted for the NE not to use Rightmove - the market is pretty dire, you'd think that getting maximum exposure would be a good thing?

Bumping this to see if anyone is still about? We're selling in the NE and have been on the market since January. 18 viewings and no offers . Keep putting the price down but with all those viewers I feel like price isnt the issue?

Didn't know there was a Scottish thread. We've had an offer accepted on a house subject to us selling our house. We've been on the market 2 weeks - 5 viewers, no offers. Getting very nervous as we need to sell asap. Going by 2 estate agents, survey and my own knowledge of prices houses are on for in theirs street I think we are priced fairly, but someone else has put a bigger model, which has been done up immaculately on the market for the same price. They, unsurprisingly, have a closing date next week.

We are hoping for more viewers next week as that house will be off the market and more people back from holidays.

I hate this!

Horispondle: what feedback are you getting from your viewers?

Horis if you're in Aberdeen city then you're going to struggle unless you're selling at a cut price. Our old neighbours have just gone under offer after 18 months and several price reductions, and that's a family home in good school catchments.

Have your viewers sold or are they all waiting to sell as well?

We've decided by the end of next week we're going to reduce our price. Our one and only viewer this week is a may be. He's going to come back to us middle of next week to say if we've made the shortlist for a second viewing. Our main competition will also be off the market by the middle of the week so we'll give it a few days and if we have no more viewers we'll drop our price. It feels good to have made a decision.

Under, don't drop until schools have gone back if it's a family home. It will just get lost. Wait until schools are back.

It'll only be a few days before the schools go back, and I think most people will be back from holidays by then. We feel if no one views this week, then something is wrong with our strategy and it needs to change.

I don't want to be harsh but I wouldn't recommend that to any of my clients. I'd wait until the week commencing 21sr August.

Under viewers feedback is that the rooms are too small. I made a massive effort to make the house perfect for photos and they turned out so well I wonder if they are misleading
Interesting about not putting price down till schools are back. I hadn't thought about that.

We've had a bit of feedback about rooms being too small too. In our case I had 24 hours between the offer on the house we're buying being accepted and the photos of ours being taken. I have done my best to declutter but we have a lot of bookcases which doesn't help.

I think we are overpriced. The price the estate agents are expecting for us, is the same as properties in the street that are extended. We also have quite a few 2s in the survey which will scare some people off. We spoke to the estate agent and have agreed to speak to her again on Friday about reducing the price if things haven't picked up.

What are your 2s? Anything you can easily rectify? If so do it and give your agent details.

If people can see extended ones online for the same as yours it may well cause a problem even if your HR justifies the price.

Thats us dropped the price to 11k below asking price. Got the estate agent to change the main photo on ASPC to a nice internal shot to see if that makes it more noticeable.
We had a viewing 2 weeks ago but again, they said third bedroom was too small. Estate agent is hopefully that they may go see similar properties and find that most 3 bed semis have disappointing third bedrooms and get back to us!
We viewed a house to buy for the first time this week. Absolutely loved it. Dream home, dream location, excellent price, every member of the family loved it. But there was a lot of interest (open house) and we are in no position to put an offer in when our house has already been on the market 7 months . So disappointed, don't think we'll bother viewing any more houses, too depressing that we can't just go ahead and put an offer in!
How would it work normally, if you weren't selling in Aberdeen? Can you put an offer in before your house was sold normally?