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Please tell me more houses will come onto the market in the next few weeks!

143 replies

Lolly567 · 01/09/2018 10:14

Just been obsessively checking Rightmove every hour for pretty much the past six weeks and getting a bit frustrated! I really hope it’s true people wait till September to list their houses!

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augustusglupe · 02/09/2018 18:15

Hasn’t it been rubbish!? And there never seems to be anything I like within our budget (East Cheshire) Hoping lots come on this month!!

peachypetite · 02/09/2018 18:19

Is anyone else hoping for lots of new properties this week!!

eurochick · 02/09/2018 18:22

Same here. We sold ages ago and I'm getting worried our buyers will lose patience soon. There's just nothing out there.

househunthappening · 02/09/2018 18:48

Same here, hence my username! We have been tentatively looking for about a year, we're planning to keep this house to rent out and buy the 'forever home' (if that exists) next. So we aren't in a rush as such but I'm getting frustrated where we are because although the house is nice enough, it's not the area we want to settle in and now I'm a SAHM with one DC and another on the way in really feeling like this isn't home more than ever.

We've looked at a few but nothing that quite fits the bill. There is one that's still on the market which is a great location and has loads of potential but needs a lot of work and we don't feel the price reflects what we'd need to spend on it. It's probate and has been empty for 2 years so I'm just clinging on to the vague possibility of them reducing it enough to get it sold before another winter. We are talking a big chunk off the asking price though and it's already been reduced by £30k so I'm not hopeful.

I am literally on rightmove multiple times a days it actually drives me mad but I'm addicted!

What's more my husband and I are bother chartered surveyors and my husband runs a business locally. We'd like to hope that nothing would get by us because he's always on rightmove for work too, but I think that makes it more of an obsession!

For what it's worth, August is always quiet because people (buyers, estate agents, solicitors etc) are on holiday so nothing happens. It's also true though that people don't want to move over Christmas/winter! I was hoping for a promising spring, but it wasn't this spring so maybe it will be next spring!

I do think also though that some people will hold of until after Brexit just to see what happens, although if Brexit makes house prices drop as they predict I don't know why you wouldn't try to sell before unless you are going to stay put long term and ride out the price fluctuations.

Feel like I've found my people on this thread, I can stop chewing my husband's ear off about it now!

peachypetite · 02/09/2018 19:50

This thread is helping! It's so nice to find others who understand. Even if we don't find anywhere we are going to just move home, not ideal but it took months to get a buyer for ours and we don't want to lose her.

beibermylove · 03/09/2018 09:02

Due to worries my mortgage offer wouldnt be extended/ needing to move by september, I only had the summer to find somewhere. Only one suitable property has come on every month, and everything advertised seems to be BTL and pensioner sell offs. Thankfully i got somewhere but needs complete redocoration and no reduction from asking.

Hopefully september will bring more options for you guys still looking!

ChiaraRimini · 03/09/2018 21:24

The manager at my EA was out all day today doing valuations so hopefully the summer holiday is now over and more houses will appear on the market soon.
We have had one viewing on Friday and have two more booked on our house for this Saturday. Fingers crossed.

Lolly567 · 04/09/2018 09:00

There were two almost suitable properties added yesterday in the area we’re looking at - one seemed reasonably priced but the other over priced in my opinion- but hopefully that means there will be more this week! Hope it picks up in all year areas too!!

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Lolly567 · 04/09/2018 09:00

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peachypetite · 04/09/2018 18:13

A few have come on. One was very promising except for the location (we previously saw anhouse on the same street but were shocked by the state of the house next door and garden - feel so sorry for the vendors who are going to struggle to sell that) and this new house turned out to be opposite it! So we are not interested. But hoping more come on this week.

Lilmisskittykat · 04/09/2018 22:05

So far this week fair few more houses on but terraces that Im moving on from... no sign decent of family semis yet.

So good news if your a first time buyer (me ten years ago) no good for me right now 😕

Lolly567 · 05/09/2018 14:12

Urgh nothing here, getting desperate so new plan: persuade DP to let me apply for Location Location Location!!

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RangerLady · 06/09/2018 00:10

Also struggling. Sold late may, had an offer accepted on somewhere nearly 8 weeks ago and today out vendors decided not to sell after all. We've viewd 20 houses. I'm sick of it. We wanted to move in time to apply for school for dd1 but that looks unlikely now. We're searching over a wide area so can't even visit schools just in case

peachypetite · 06/09/2018 08:43

Oh no ranger that's awful news! You must be so fed up.

Myheadhurtsstill · 06/09/2018 10:07

What a nightmare Ranger- hope something turns up .
Who is holding out for the perfect home? Who is compromising ? I’m on the compromise end as don’t think things will change enormously but dh is at the holding out stage..still.

Lolly567 · 06/09/2018 10:38

Ahh that’s horrible Ranger!!! Why do vendors do that?!? I know buyers do sometimes as well pull out. I feel like people should have to pay part of their deposit straight after survey to stop people messing around, I think they do that in Scotland? I can’t imagine falling in love with a house and being ready to move and then the vendor decides not to sell!! :o

I’m kind of holding out for perfect home.. i feel like everything is pointing towards it being the top of the market in our area, as asking prices seem a lot higher than recently sold prices, and I don’t want us to overpay for something that is a massive compromise..

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Lolly567 · 06/09/2018 10:39

Sorry didn’t mean to grin!! More :o

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Lolly567 · 06/09/2018 10:40

Oh! Shock that’s what I meant, I clearly don’t know my mumsnet emojis

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peachypetite · 06/09/2018 15:21

Now that I am on the radar of several estate agents I'm receiving daily emails and calls - nothing decent, just all the crap they can't get rid of.

Lolly567 · 07/09/2018 09:25

@peachypetite same here.. and I’m also hoping that some properties will be reduced but I’m really not too hopeful as I’ve akready spoken to their EAs and it sounds like they’re being stubborn with price. I think some people just won’t move unless they get a certain (unrealistic) price.

Not as much as I hoped has come on this week. I suppose it’s the first week back at school and everyone will be busy with that.. perhaps it picks up more mid September..

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Alexalee · 07/09/2018 10:00

As with you Lolly I was hoping this would be the week where lots of new stuff came on... unfortunately absolutely nothing at all, steadily for the last month in our area and criteria less comes on. Bar the crazy idiot who wants 100k more than they paid 2 years ago... when in reality their house is probably worth less than they paid!!!! So frustrating

Alexalee · 07/09/2018 10:04

Some of the stuff just above our budget has been on for a year with the odd 5k reduction! That's 1%... 1 fucking percent

Berimbolo · 07/09/2018 15:37

Plenty coming on in my area, most need upgrading (deceased/elderly people properties) and the sellers still want top dollar. That said, there is a shift in the market and loads staying put because sellers don't drop (or drop marginally) and buyers don't seem willing to pay over the odds at the moment.

Lilmisskittykat · 07/09/2018 16:51

@Berimbolo that's exactly what I'm
Finding my neck of the woods (nw)

Just three d's - death, debt and divorce properties.

We are good to go but I'm determined to pay a fair price as I think house market isn't what it was and lots of reductions to properties is affirming that

wurzelburga · 07/09/2018 18:29

I think many people have decided not to move because of the uncertainty around Brexit. Many potential movers are not sure what will happen to their jobs or how easy it will be to stay in UK so do not want to make a long term commitment at this stage.
Add in enormous moving costs - particularly in the South East - and it often makes sense to stay put and do a loft/side return conversion.