Aibu to refuse viewings

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Our house is on the market. AIBU to refuse viewings to people who haven’t sold their property yet?

YANBU

YaNbu to do that however

Decline a serious buyer because their house isnt sold is a bit cutting your nose off to spite your face...

Say they sell a week later and go "fuck viewing that house we thought about last week...the seller seems hard work..."and you miss out

If its to avoid time wasters well your going to get them when your sellinv especially those who just want a nosey.

Your choice. But i think it would alienate a massive % of your potential buyer pool

Yabu. Peoples positions can change overnight.

If you are trying to sell something why on earth would you want to limit your markets? Makes you not a serious seller.

Yes. We had no intention of moving but saw a house we loved went to view it and immediately put out house on the market, it sold within 3 days and the seller immediately accepted our offer and took it off the market. By refusing viewings you are potentially loosing a good buyer.

Only if you don't mind nobody letting you view their house because you haven't sold.

I understand your reasoning, but in this market I think you’re putting barriers in your way.

are you getting lots of viewings from people under offer? If yes then no Yanbu
If no then I’d take any viewing you can get!

Bit silly.

When I sold my house to the first viewers I then only considered houses to buy which we’d seen the previous week. We needed to go in a hurry and I didn’t have time to wait for further appts to go and look at any more houses.

So the house which 4 days previously the owner wouldn’t let us see might have been the one we wanted. But I never went to see it.

Just keep in mind that once those people have sold their house they may come back and buy yours. If someone refused Mr a viewing I'd mentally cross that one off my list and not bother again, whether I'd sold or not, you may inadvertently put a genuine buyers off.

Agents phoned me with a viewing while I was home with dd ill, I explained situation but lady was only in area one day so I agreed on basis she took us as she found us. She arrived spent quite a while looking round, admired house lots then at door said it's lovely but I've not put mine on market yet. Wrote it off as waste of time until next day when agent rings with offer close to asking price from her as she'd gone home and her neighbour offered her a cash sale for her house! All went through and we were all happy😀

We'd only put our house on the market if we found a place that ticked all the boxes and would be prepared to sell ours cheap to get be in a position to make an offer etc

Caveat - we're dealing with the Scottish system, but no, it's not as simple as that.
We've bought a house in an area where there's hardly ever any movement, houses don't come up that often, and fewer people want to take on something so old.
It was ages before we went to view anything at all.
On the other hand, we knew our house would be snapped up because there's much more demand for this type of house and they sell quickly.
In the end we put in an offer, tidied up for a week, then sold within a week.
No way would I have risked selling first.

I did this at one point when our buyers pulled out and we already had a house that we were interested in.

You could limit it to people who have their houses already up for sale instead?

I wouldn’t. I’m selling a house at the moment. One couple, who viewed four weeks ago really liked it but hadn’t sold theirs. They second viewed last week as they had reduced their selling price, received an offer so put in an offer on mine.

In this market you need to allow all viewings. You really never know how quickly someone may sell if motivated enough. The person who is viewing your house who isn't on the market this week may well fall in love with it & rush their own house to market in order to secure yours. This happened to us. They went on with our EA, priced low & sold quickly, unfortunately, they then got cold feet about extending & plucked an additional 100k out of their arses in order to buy something already extended.

I think YABU, as PPs have said, you don't know their circumstances.

We viewed houses before ours went on the market, fell in love with a house, put our offer in and agreed a date that regardless of whether we sold our house, we would complete on the new house.
We then found a buyer in time, but were messed around by them so still ended up completing on the new without selling the old. Luckily we were in the financial position to do this. Plus we were very honest with our sellers on the whole situation, as we didn't want them to worry or feel messed about

You’d be limiting yourself or putting off some buyers.

I viewed a house without even being on the market. Liked it so much I put mine on the market and put in a serious offer along with 15 other people from the open day. (100 different people/couples arrived over 4 hours) 5 of these were serious including mine.
Put my house on the market and got photos up in 3 days and stc a week later.

They were mulling over their offers for a week and half. Whilst mine sold and I became a proceedable buyer before the sign even went up.

My offer was accepted. So began my 11 month wait to actually get into the house ughhhhhh

We viewed a house twice without an offer on ours - got an offer the day after second viewing. Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face - the market is unpredictable at the moment and you could lose out on a buyer like us, with a FTB buyer offering on theirs the day after!

The last house I bought ours wasn’t even on the market when we viewed. But I saw it for sale and fell in love with the photo. We hadn’t even been thinking of moving.

That was the Friday, we viewed it Saturday morning. Instructed three estate agents to come value ours sat afternoon. Instructed an estate agent on the Tuesday, we went live on right move on Thursday and we sold on Friday for the asking price.

Moved 8 weeks later.

Our buyers hadn’t sold when they viewed. But as soon as they did, they made a good offer. Unless your house is in high demand, or unusual so you are getting sightseers rather than genuine viewers, I think you would be foolish to turn away potential buyers. Estate agents can usually weed out the time-wasters with a few questions.

You haven't sold yours, so presumably that means you're ok with not looking at anyone else's? I think it's a short sighted approach though.

We really liked a house and put an offer of asking price but estate agent didn't even put it to the sellers as we hadn't sold ours. We were pretty annoyed as excitedly waiting for a reply only to never hear back! Our house sold a few days later and we went for a different property - that house took a while to sell and they later dropped the price considerably. It's not exactly the same situation as yours OP, but you can see how by not considering all potential buyers you might miss out!

I wouldn’t but please ensure you EA is sussing them out first.

We are viewing whilst ours has not yet sold. There is one we really like, as soon as my property goes under offer I will be straight on the phone to the EA making an offer - providing it is still available.

In the bigger picture those who haven't sold yet can be used to increase offers from other interested parties.

I had someone view my old house, who wasn't yet on the market, she loved it and offered full asking price and got hers on the market same day. I accepted her offer but said until she had a buyer I would leave mine on the market and if someone in a better position made a similar offer I would go with them. I ended up with a cash buyer paying just £1000 below asking because they hadn't really got much to barter with since I already had an asking price offer accepted. (This was at the height of the recession too).

Buyers don't know that other viewers haven't sold, they just know that other people are interested. Once houses have been on a while you start to think there is a reason nobody is viewing.