Will we EVER sell our house?

[TroublesomeTownHouse]

We have been on the market since Feb. Basically sold and then lockdown hit and they pulled out. Sold again in the summer but they also pulled out having found somewhere they preferred.

Switched agents mid-September because we'd been on so long and hoped for some new interest but got 1 solitary viewing.

Then did a fairly big price drop 2 weeks ago and NOTHING.

I know we should probably just take it off the market until next year but everything around us is selling. Cons are we are on a main road and we don't have much garden but we (and both sets of agents) are really genuinely puzzled about what's going on because otherwise its pretty good!

Does anyone have any miracle stories about buyers appearing suddenly after months?

@troublesometownhouse I would like to know too please....and good luck!

So excited for you too! I have something similar to put on the market in spring and have been dreading it because of your experience. You’ve made my evening! Best wishes that it all goes smoothly.

We had lots of good advice on this thread but lots of it involved spending quite a bit of cash - engaging a stylist, updating furniture, painting rooms, replacing (enormous) curtains.

What we actually did was:

1. improve the wording of the description - particularly the garden and the separate annex
2. make sure the photos were in a sensible order so you could make sense of the layout (probably the most important because of the size of the house)
3. add photos of bathrooms to show they were in decent condition
4. removed a large and v striking print above a fireplace and replaced it with a mirror - surprisingly transformative!
5. I was also a pain in the arse client and rang the agent almost daily to check progress. Since we chose them because they promised a much better service than the previous agents and promised a queue of ready buyers I didn't feel bad about that!

The key point I think is that houses with a more limited number of buyers do take longer to sell. We had already dropped the price expecting a load of interest and nothing happened. Rather than drop again we just had to wait. In the end we had 2 offers on one day.

We were quite fed up by late October so told the agent not to send viewers who hadn't already sold because we'd had a few who loved it and just needed to finish work on theirs, get it valued, go on the market next month......etc etc.

Good luck to those waiting it is truly dispiriting.