Selling - Living in Limbi

[JustPurple]

We have had our house on the market for 3 weeks now and have had no interest at all. Our last house sold within 3 hours so I'm really struggling with this. What if it never sells?

How has everyone else been coping with the feeling of being 'in between' houses? Is price the only factor that will get people through the door or are there any other things I can do to make a listing look really enticing?

The house is on an estate where they're still building (although we're priced £42k cheaper than the last one of our type) so I'm really dreading trust nothing we can do will make a difference.

it will always sell, but with a second hand new build you have a big price issue. and i am afraid that no interest means too expensive.

Agree with what Special said.

As for limbo, yes it's hard work. For about 6 months I bought the bare minimum for the house we were selling, using up stockpiles of food, toiletries, etc and tried to minimise bulky purchases that we'd need to move. Wanted to buy new bedding and replace a chest of drawers but wanted to see new room size colour scheme etc. Tried not to buy too much school uniform. Fobbed off eldest child that we'd buy guinea pigs once we'd moved.

If you post a link the mumsnetters are very good at critiqing photos.

I was very glad to finally sell and not to have to maintain a show home with frantic Saturday morning house cleans before viewings.

I'm in limbo sort of here too. 8 weeks ago accepted an offer, no chain and still not exchanged.

I'm losing the will each bloody day that passes. I keep thinking we are past the 'selling' stage, except we're not until we've exchanged 🙄

My point being accepting an offer is only one stage in this painfully slow, ridiculous system in England.

Good luck OP. I never want to buy/sell here again!

I think you are right about the price. Three agents suggested the same price so we thought we'd give it a go, but it clearly isn't working. Does it usually require quite a large reduction to get things moving?

We're also in a HS2 area. This shouldn't be close enough to cause any nuisance but I think it might be making people cautious.

How are your agents? They seem to always overestimate. Ours were not great and for a combination of reasons, we were on the market for a year. And I had just moved into the country and couldn't bring my belongings over until we moved, so it's taken me a long time to get settled.

It's frustrating, but we just did the best we could and I dealt with it. Now that we are in our "new" house it's a distant memory. We had a pretty good routine for viewings by the time we were done!