A 'waiting for viewings and offers' support group?

[TheWanderingUterus]

Not quite ready for the 'in a chain' support group (please please don't let it be too long!), but we have just put our house up for sale and are waiting for viewings. Mostly cleaning and primping and procrastinating, with occasional adrenaline bursts when the phone rings.

Anyone else in the same position wanting to share the angst?

PS as well as valuation tomorrow we have mortgage broker appointment booked for Thurs.

Hope viewing/valuation go well tomorrow Summerhols and drspouse.

Here's a link to our (little) house

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46524543.html

Any feedback welcome!

Your house is lovely looks completely viewing ready from pictures and decent size bedrooms!

I think I'll be leaving you all to in chain very soon we have accepted our offer (please nothing go wrong)

That's amazing littlemiss! Hope all goes smoothly for you.

Oh that's so cute!

I actually think a tiny bit more clutter would be acceptable (says Dr Clutter herself) as it almost looks empty - I think it's easier to imagine yourself in a house if it looks lived in. Maybe some books/toys, a few lovely mugs or jars of pasta on the worktops?

And hooray for the offer littlemiss

Thanku thanku I'm scared ! We are going to look at an absolute beauty tomorrow night

Great news LittleMiss!

My stress levels are in orbit. EA said people from weekend would put in offer today, just needed to confirm with their buyer.

Well quell surprise nothing! So now
we're hanging on 2nd viewers tomorrow.

I just don't get why people would request 2nd viewings when they don't even have a buyer themselves?? Surely it's a waste of everyone's time unless you're in a massively high turnover location?

Grrrr

It is people are daft !

Thanks drtease - I'll see what I can pull out. Problem is we pretty much do live like that! New bottle of Aesop handwash next to the kitchen sink sorted so at least that's a start!

Summerhols that's super annoying - we know we have to sell our house before making any serious on the property we like.

Littlemiss hope the house tomorrow is as good as you hope.

I think our estate agent is sick of me already! I've already changed the copy on rightmove and have just taken a further photo of the living area for them to upload which is much better than anything they took.

I'm always astonished at houses that look so clear - I don't really know how people do live like that but clearly some do.

We are not hoarders by any means (managed to give away about 75% of our books a few years back) and a lot of what makes our house untidy is, well, untidiness (it's not that things don't have a place to go - they just haven't got there yet!) but so many of the places that they go are, out of necessity, within sight.

Ours has been up 2 weeks now and not a single serious viewing

This is going to take longer than I hoped!

Was round at my friend's today, they are selling as they are moving abroad. Loads of viewings but she also feels many are not serious. It's been on three months, only one offer!

Seems to me that while the lucky few
Houses sell quickly, for the majority of us it takes a lot longer.

Also think this time of year isn't the best for selling.

That was my thought as they would have put it on the market not long before Christmas (they went ahead as soon as they knew about the move).

I think it's worrying us as the next door house sold in 2 days last year, ours has had 0 interest.

Our main problem is we don't have enough equity to price much lower than we are. We could maybe reduce by 5k but it would make things really tight!

We can afford to wait a few months but if it's been on longer isn't it more likely people will think there's something wrong with it?

EA just told us it's possible that last week's viewers are likely to want to come for 3rd visit FFS!

Turns out they're not even in a position at the moment to proceed (no cash buyer as was suggested)

OMGOMGOMGOMG, we have an offer!!!
EA rang just before 6 with the news

£25k below asking price but given what the house is advertised at not too outrageous. Will go back tomorrow to try and get more but for the moment am just revelling in the fact we finally have any offer at all!

Woohooooo

Well done summer. Fingers crossed they get to where you want.

The person who offered us £30k less hasn't come back with a counter offer. So he's out I think. Then the people who were coming for a second viewing now aren't as they think if they wait a few weeks the price will come down. That's unlikely to happen but as the wife hasn't seen it and they ar under offer you would think they would get a move on. Oh well.

We have two viewings at the weekend. One who can proceed and one whose isn't on the market.

Anyway I too have decided people are daft. Our house has three double bedrooms and a study and most house we are looking at which are £100k more have a tiny third bedroom. Anyways onwards and upwards.

Wow! Great news! Slightly jealous. Not gunna lie!

Summerhols that's amazing news! Agree that £25k is pretty negligible in your price bracket. How exciting.

HalleLouja fingers crossed for you this weekend.

House has been on the market a full 24 hours but no viewings booked in. I was thinking that once it went on there might be an initial flurry of activity which would then die down but does't seem to be case for me.

Yay summer!

Valuer says our house is worth what we thought, and we've started to get things sorted to put stuff in storage at the weekend. Mortgage appointment tomorrow, must get printing/finding paperwork.

Oh and though there are few 4 beds where we are - there are a couple not too far away (we are near the train station so houses within close walking distance seem to fall into the "commuter" bracket) and one of them sold within a couple of weeks for the exact same price as she thinks for ours.

summerhols brilliant news, hope it gets to an acceptable price for you!

hallelouja can't believe that some viewers aren't coming back as they think the price will drop in a few weeks, what cheek ha!

Had a call from EA today, one of our viewers from a while back has sold so they think they might make an offer tomorrow. Blooming annoyed to be honest why tell us that? I'd rather not know anything and if they make an offer then great. I'm going to be glued to the phone tomorrow now and ready for more disappointment

OBface I don't think we had any interest the first 24 hours then the few days after that the phone was ringing constantly to book viewings so hopefully it will pick up. Usually at the weekend too people start getting on rightmove etc.

Well we had a viewing last night it looked beautiful on the pics it was at 6 so we drove down at 2 in daylight and glad we did as there is a building plot building 187 houses right near t and some affordable houses we wouldn't of seen this in dark so cancelled it such a shame as the house was perfect but there's always a hitch isn't there !

Thanks All, DH will speak to EA this morning to discuss the offer - fingers crossed buyer offers more!

That is so frustrating LittleMiss. Properties can look ideal on Right Move but often critical detail is omitted. They obviously hope that by luring in for a viewing you'll fall in love with it, despite huge development prospect on your doorstep

Assuming we reach a sale agreement today we now have the problem of where to go to. We live in a rural area (think Lovejoy territory) and given that we need to stay close to schools it's either huge great piles or small cottages. We have only seen 1 house we actually like and is in right location but here's the problem....

It's been on the market for 7 months and is empty as it's an executor sale. Ideal, except its WAY overpriced. It needs a lot of work doing to it to make it how we want it and just buying it would take most of our money. I think the executors have got £££ in their eyes as they know it's in a great spot and has potential yet they haven't priced it sensibly.

So given it's the only property we like we are thinking of going in hardball by offering £70k less. Surely if you were an executor you'd want to release your money at some point rather than drag it on???

If we can't reach a compromise think we may have to rent, but not overly keen on chucking money away going down that route.

WWYD, pay way over the odds for a house in the right location that will still need work doing to it at some point

Or rent and sit tight??

Sorry for the musings, my brain is spinning!