Is it normal to view the house you’re buying more than once?

[whatsthatnow74]

We are at the point of exchange (next week fingers crossed) and our buyer wants to come over to measure up for blinds or some such.

They have been three times already, twice before putting in their offer and then again mid way through the conveyancing process.

We’ve only viewed the house we’re buying once and I wouldn’t feel comfortable asking for repeated visits in the current situation or in any situation really.

I think our buyer’s a bit cheeky! I’ve agreed to all visits as I don’t want to discourage them.

We've viewed twice each of the two times we've bought: once the initial viewing and then a second time to take measurements or check a particular issue that we wanted to clarify. Never more than twice though. I think once is potentially too few for a purchase that's so significant.

We viewed the house we own now 3 times. Twice before we offered and once afterwards to measure up for new carpets and curtains.
I find it odd that you’d spend a huge amount of money and only view it once tbh

That’s interesting. We’ve bought three houses previously and this next will be our fourth. Only ever viewed once! I can understand a couple of times maybe, but four seems excessive.

We viewed our property 3 times. First time to see it, second to get a second opinion from my dad (we were first time buyers and didn't necessarily know what to look out for), put in our offer and a few weeks later asked to view again to get measurements so we could order furniture. Hoping our sellers didn't see us as cheeky!

I'd never view a house just once. It's a colossal amount of money and where you live affects your life and your well-being.

It sounds like it is normal then!

Mostly viewed once, although I loved it when the previous owner of this home invited us for another look if we were interested in measuring for curtains et cetera. We happily took the chance.

Several thousands/hundreds of thousands of pounds on an item you've only seen once for about 15 mins?

No way...

I visited this house maybe 5 or 6 times before we moved in. Two were actual viewings before putting an offer in. I also met the surveyor here so that he could talk things through. Then DH and I came back after the survey to check over the results. I came back on another occasion to agree to some furniture that was being left/gifted to us, and again because there were problems with the electricity meter (it had two separate meters so I needed photos).

Our buyers came once to view, and another after offering, then again after their survey. They lived near to us and it was super awkward because they wanted other random visits.

If you don’t want them to measure up then you could say no more visits until exchange if you really wanted. You would be justified with the cases going up. But it’s ok to want to view a huge investment multiple times.

@BigSpringy I see what you’re saying and maybe once isn’t enough (though it’s always worked for us) but four times is still excessive, no??

I think it's fairly normal. I viewed this house twice.

4 times!! ah no, what are they doing!

the first time, the house made a general impression on me, and the second time I went back I had specific things that I knew I had missed, and I noted the answers to the questions I couldn't answer from my memory iyswim. But that was twice. And I made an offer and bought the house.

Four times! Is dithering their hobby?

It's not cheeky at all. They are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds. We can take 30 mins to decide what dress or jeans we buy. As long as I knew they weren't messing around, I'd let a buyer in often to look at the place at different times of day, to measure up, to check dimensions etc. No problem. I'd never ever buy a house I'd viewed once.

I would have taken coming to measure up for things a positive sign

@flamingolingo it’s funny though, because the two properties we’ve sold previously, the buyers only viewed once, so this time it feels odd to us that someone would want to come over more often.
I am concerned about the rise in cases though, as I’m in a higher risk group, but equally don’t want to be awkward if our buyer really wants to come. It’s been a very long drawn out process and I do not want to cause a problem so close to exchange!

Actually, given that they want to measure for blinds I would see it as positive that they're visualising this, it's going ahead. I would just ask them to come between xx and xx and leave it quite narrow and not over think it. Blinds can take weeeeeeks to fit. It doesn't seem that crazy that the they want to measure for blinds.

Are they hoping you'll offer to leave the existing blinds??

Same as most on here. Twice before offering and then again to measure at the time of exchange so we could order stuff to arrive the day after completion.

4 times no.
I would expect 2 visits pre- offer and then 1 to measure of necessary.

@WiserOlder oh they’re committed, we’re about to exchange! I don’t see why they can’t wait until we complete given it should be less than a fortnight away!

Totally normal to view more than once, I'm really surprised that you think otherwise, have you not come across the term second viewing?

As long as it's not excessive I wouldn't have a problem.

@BasiliskStare

I would have taken coming to measure up for things a positive sign

Yeh, I've only bought one house but at the point where I was planning what furniture I was going to need and what could fit where, I would have been devastated if it had fallen through, so @whatsthatnow74 understand the frustration but just re-frame it as ''yay, no sign of it falling through at this late stage in the day''

@PleasantVille yes, second viewing but not fourth viewing 😂

I think twice before offering and once to measure up. But don't think there's anything odd about coming again. As long as its not every week.

Yeah, our buyers offered just before lockdown which (along with crap solicitors) has massively slowed down the sale so they asked if they could revisit to check house still in same condition.

We've also been back to the house we're buying a second time to take pictures before some work happens that affects the party wall.

I do get where you're coming from OP as these strange times mean you want to keep your home as your safe bubble but really, given how much money they're paying you, they need to feel comfortable with their investment