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Sellers roll call! How many viewings are you gettingin this stagnant market?

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Pixiedust1973 · 15/01/2018 14:45

I thought it would be nice to update each other with our progress as I seem to of lost the other sellers thread!

My house has been on the market on & off since April last year. We found a house we liked, got a buyer before putting in an offer. Had a low offer but managed to negotiate them up & the house we want down to an acceptable level, just! Turns out after many months that their buyer can't proceed so we decide to cut off from our old agents & start afresh with a 25k reduction for quick sale, making us without question the best house in the area for the price! Comparables being 40-50k higher! Im in an expensive part of Surrey btw, hence silly money for very little!

Been on 55 days now & had 11 viewings, 2 cheeky try their luck offers we can't accept because they're 30k below our asking price already reduced by 25k. Id say that given how stagnant the market is we're getting a reasonable amount of interest. Getting lots more hits online since the new year & hopefully its only a matter of time. The viewers we are getting are proceedable viewers, mainly chain free. Probably explains the low offers! Hmm Had a second viewing on Friday & awaiting their feedback today. Thought they were keen but the later in the day it gets the more nervous im getting!

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FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 09:05

Money spent on a house does not automatically translate into profit. The house's value is determined purely by what a buyer is willing to pay.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 09:11

wow sophie don't mince your words. They are entirely serious about it, They put their house on the market for ours. They're still interested in it and will no doubt go through with their offer if/when their house sells.

I'm not being funny but I really don't appreciate your attitude because I already feel shit that it hasn't sold and rather than helping you have just absolutely crushed any hope I had.

you might as well just say "your house is shit the work you have done is shit and you might as well give it away for nothing"

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 09:17

I disagree. I think straight talking is a very positive thing.

If the offer is so good why have you not accepted it? It seems wrong that you have let them put their house on the market on the basis of letting them buy yours, but you are not continuing to market yours and not putting it under offer. a

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 09:19

Typo - you ARE continuing to market yours

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 09:30

Re mincing words, you are from Yorkshire, presumably?

In Yorkshire, they call a spade a spade. Yorkshire is the UK capital of straight talk, which is partly what makes it such a great county. None of the usual British trait of NOT saying what you mean, and NOT meaning what you say.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 09:38

sophie

why would I accept an offer that's not proceedable? it might take them 2 days to sell, might take them 6 months. i'll accept it when its proceedable.

Who in their right mind would have accepted it? do you think the house I want to buy will accept my offer when I haven't sold? No.

There's straight talking, and there's being a rude know it all. You're the latter and frankly i'm going to leave this thread because you've done nothing but make me feel like utter shit.

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 09:47

But you have let them put their own house on the market purely on the basis of buying yours - surely it is a bit mean to lead them on like that?
If they have gone to all the trouble of marketing their own house on the basis of you letting them buy yours, surely the least you could do in return is mark yours as 'sale agreed'?

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 09:51

I would say it is the fact that your house has not sold that is making you feel shit, but I am your handy scape goat to blame for why you feel shit, so you can avoid facing up to the real reason. Which is not a very nice thing to do!

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 09:55

I have not "let them" do anything - they have their own brains.

they viewed my house, put theirs on the market. fuck all to do with me.

I haven't accepted their offer, I never told them I would sell it to them, I let them look round my house (Along with about 19 other viewings) and THEY decided to put their house on the market.

how is that me being unfair?

that's entirely their decision.

why would I mark mine as sale agreed for someone who cannot buy it?

you think giving it away for fuck all is a good idea, and also agreeing a sale with someone who cannot currently buy it is also a good idea?

makes no sense.

I am leaving now.,

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 09:56

no sophie you're not a scape goat your attitude is horrible and it is definitely YOU making me feel like shit, yeah the situation is not great and this thread has been supportive and fab until you arrived

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 10:04

You keep on saying what a great offer it is, but then in the next breath you say they haven't got the funds to honour it, and they are not even in a position to proceed. Are you sure you are not just pocketing their offer to use against other offers? Apart from playing games with buyers, that would be misrepresenting an offer, which is illegal for good reasons.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:11

I haven't said what a great offer it is, I've said its an offer at what we want but they are not yet proceedable. I am not sure how much more clear you want me to make it.

we haven't had any other offers so we're certainly not "pocketing it" to use against other offers. if we received another offer at a price we were happy with we would accept it - why on earth would we try and counter it with a non proceedable offer?

im not misrepresenting anything or doing anything illegal.

you think you know a lot don't you when clearly you know fuck all

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:11

we haven't mentioned having any offers to any other viewers AT ALL.

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 10:16

I've been in the situation where an EAs has used another 'offer' to try to bid me up, and I have later found out that counter offer was not proceedable, but they withheld that information, which is illegal. EAs do it all the time, which is partly why the house buying process is this country is so disreputable. The thing I most hate about buying a house is the silly games that are played.

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 10:19

It is only when someone makes an offer, that the mysterious counter-offer is suddenly revealed to them.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:20

that's a shame for you but I can assure you myself nor my estate agent are doing that and I find it fucking offensive that you have even suggested that I am.

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 10:27

Why don't you just say the offer that you have had is not up to much, since the buyer is not able to proceed and honour it? Rather than saying you have had an offer that you like and which comes up to your expectations? To my ears, you are trying to play the offer up and play it down all at the same time. That is the kind on thing that makes house buying such an unpleasant experience in the UK.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:33

sophie are you fucking kidding me? I have mentioned several times its NOT PROCEEDABLE. I have said that the price they offered was acceptable. if they become proceedable we will accept it if we have not already accepted another. I HAVE SAID THIS.

I am not playing it up or down, it is what it is.

all I have said is we have had an offer for a decent price which shows that our house is infact sellable at the price we have listed. THATS ALL

why are you so invested in trying to put me down? or catch me out? or try to get me to reduce by fucking ridiculous amounts?

what are you gaining out of this except for making someone else feel like shit?

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 10:39

But flaming, if an offer is not proceedable, it is not an offer! It is a fantasy. You keep on calling it an offer of £X, but it is nothing of the sort. I could go to Bill Gates and offer him £20 billion to buy Microsoft, but it's not really an offer, unless I had the funds to honour it. And Bill Gates cannot go round saying that Microsoft is worth £20 billion because Sophie has offered him that for it.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:42

a minute ago sophie you were telling me I should have accepted it and marked my house as sale agreed

so is it an offer or isn't it?

FabulousSophie · 19/07/2018 10:49

I only said that because you seem to be saying it a good offer. If you agreed a sale on its basis, it would confirm that is a good offer. But you say it is a good offer, without actually accepting it as the basis for a transaction. I think viewers can probably get a feeling for your ambiguity, especially on the asking price, and that is putting them off. In the current buyers' market, buyers like sellers who are more straight up and less ambiguous.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:51

sophie I think we all know you're just trying to wind me up now.

I don't think anyone has a feeling about my "ambiguity" I am not being ambiguous. Its for sale at 105. it does not say fixed price, it does not say offers over.

You know the square root of fuck all about me except what my house looks like and what it's listed for. You have absolutely no right to try and tell me why i personally am putting buyers off.

You're very rude.

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:52

i think you're misunderstanding

the amount is an amount we are happy with

we cannot accept the offer because it is not proceedable

if someone proceedable offered that price we would take it

if the buyers become proceedable we would accept it

i don't know how much more clear you want me to be, everyone else seems to understand.

Alexalee · 19/07/2018 10:53

Flaming if i were you i would ignore sophie
If you see what she writes on multiple housing threads she is the most negative person in the world about house prices, and from what i gather is not affiliated in any career involved in the housing market... but she did make a profit selling her london flat... yawn. Sophie stop posting on this thread you are annoyingly repetitive and unhelpful at best

flamingofridays · 19/07/2018 10:55

thanks alexa i think i will do, because realistically i don't want to leave the thread because everyone else is lovely!

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