Firstly, I am somewhat impatient so need to caveat this post with that and also that this a bit of rant!
We’ve been on the market for just over a week with four viewings and no offers and no feedback. I’ve had to do the viewings as EA seemingly not available to do them which is a bit frustrating in and of itself (obviously do not project this to the viewers). We’ve also seen some places online and other EA have been a bit snotty about viewings as we don’t have a buyer. We are upsizing and those places seem to be shifting pretty quickly.
We are selling a 2 bed Victorian terraced house, in a commuter / market town. Walking distance to the shops and station (literally all in a 5 minute radius). All agents that came round to do viewings commented that it’s in really good condition and location. It has a new boiler, relatively new kitchen and bathroom, the latter of which is a good size with a separate shower cubicle and bath. With covid and wfh our spare room is DP office and dining room has been converted to my office / gym. Have a reasonable sized garden and it’s well maintained (flower beds, seating space etc). However we have no off street parking and there’s nothing we can do about this.
The house suited us as we commuted (but aren’t anymore due to covid) but we’ve been here a little while and are ready to move on. I’m also feeling a bit frustrated with our EA as communication is lacking. I feel like I’m having to chase them and if I say no to something feel like I’m being told off - for example we couldn’t do the timing of one of the viewings one day but could do an hour earlier and EA said we should have waited to list if that was the case. Another example is the fact that we have had to do all of our own viewings. On another occasion a viewer said that our rightmove post didn’t have the correct location on the map and when queried with the EA, EA told me the viewer should have read the email with the address instead of looking at the rightmove listing. While I see his point as a buyer I often look at maps and street view and find it annoying when the map doesn’t show the correct property. I also don’t think that comment was really necessary, I mean why not just say okay I will look into it and get it corrected? DP thinks so long as EA sells the house we don’t care about what he like, which I do agree with, but then at the same time I am worried that the way EA is is going to impact our ability to sell. EA also wants to charge us for a virtual viewing and when we said we weren’t happy about incurring a fixed cost for marketing told us that they didn’t want to be out of pocket and we had negotiated a lower fee than some of the newer clients. (For context we instructed and had photos done pre-covid but covid put everything on hold) Bearing all this in mind, how long would you give them to perform?
In terms of prepping the house for viewings, it is cleaned, tidied, de cluttered and we wipe down skirting boards, light switches, sockets, doors etc. Grateful for any other suggestions for what we should be doing.
Sorry for such a long post and if you made it to the end thanks for reading 