How many viewings did you get in your first week and how long did it take you to sell?

[Emillee]

I know it differs/it only takes one potential buyer but I'm looking to get an idea of people's experiences.

We've been on the market a week and had one viewing.

I expected to have more initially, then slowing (i.e. people who'd been looking for a while at houses like our setting up viewings in a bit of a flurry, then tailing off).

Just interested in people's experiences?

You can't ask a question like this without a time frame and a geographical location - markets are temporal and spatial!

The number of first viewings/length of time to sell just after the financial crash will have been very different to two years before it! Equally, this year is more different to two years ago in London than in Manchester.

With a typical property In an area with moderate activity you should expect a few viewings in your first week, and for this to then drop off. The agent will have disappointed buyers on his books and others will be following RightMove and be going to see any new properties that meet their criteria.

If there is little interest, keep it on for a few weeks, but ask your agent whether it is because there are few buyers out there (eg pre-Christmas, bad weather, or because it is an unusual property), or the property is over-priced, or poorly presented. Then take appropriate action.

2 weeks, we priced £10k lower and eventually accepted £20k lower as a rarer type of house came on the market that we knew wouldnt come up often. shit but could have hung on for extra 20K but then house we wanted would be gone.

4 in the first week. Sold day 9. Official/binding at day 14/15. After all the stress and worry!

Buying hasn't been so easy

We did open day (loathed by some, but with dog and new baby was essential for us!). We had 22 viewings, and 6 offers. Ended up selling over asking (not a huge amount). Ordinary 3 bed, but in a very popular area with families, and ofsted outstanding local school.

Just depends on local market really.

We sold pre-brexit. Things have slowed down since in my area though.

20+ viewings in the first week. Sold at the end of the second week to the second person who came to view. We did price it aiming for a quick sale though.

8 viewings on the first Saturday. Accepted over asking price the same day.

Ours has been on the market just under 4 weeks. We've had about 15 viewings but no offers :(

We are looking to buy in London at the moment. Most houses in the area seem to stay on the market for quite some time; asking prices for similar properties also vary wildly in asking price. This, to me, implies that there are a lot of overpriced properties around here.

Area, house type or a link to property would give people a better idea.

3 viewings the first week, then dead during brexit, eventually sold just over a year after going on the market. I never thought it would sell.

Got two viewings within 4 hours of listing and both offered asking price same day. We did list 13k under market value though for super fast sale as we are mortgage free and just had an offer accepted on a bigger property. Actually feel pretty peeved the EA will get £1100 quid for half a days listing lol

Gosh, sorry! Didn't see all these replys

We are in the South West, (Wiltshire) and have bee on the market for 2 weeks.

Still just one viewing.

We have looked at other properties for sale/sold and the issue is there seems to be such a spread (ours is on for £360k and similar properties seem to sell for anything between £290k-£375k).

We are perfectly prepared to reduce the price, but we wonder if it is simply the time of year.

I think we will probably do this....

If there is little interest, keep it on for a few weeks, but ask your agent whether it is because there are few buyers out there (eg pre-Christmas, bad weather, or because it is an unusual property), or the property is over-priced, or poorly presented. Then take appropriate action.

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Don't panic. All the PPs seem to have had fairly frenetic activity. We had much slower activity. I'm not sure we had anyone at all in the first week. We had about 6 viewings in 3 months and sold to the last of them.

We had an offer on our house last week. It's been on the market for 8 months...in that time we've had about 10 viewings. We are priced cheaper than a lot of similar properties in the area. The market is basically non existent where I am right now.

Just posted to add a bit of perspective that it isn't all 20 viewings and 10 offers in the first week. I'm hoping and praying this sale goes through because a market as slow as it is around here isn't going to pick up if the general trend countrywide is a drop in the market.

We had five viewings booked and declined a sixth as they hadn’t sold. Second to view bought it and we pulled it from the market, three days in. This was Feb this year.

House on market two years ago. Two couples viewed in first week, second couple bought it

I have only had one viewing in 5 weeks not sure why

We are trying to sell our 3bedroom terrace but only had 5 viewings in 3.5mths? Ours is a very ordinary house in a very ordinary area but nevertheless, sounds like something is going wrong?