Buyers coming back to view multiple times. Normal?

[Helloyellow876]

DH and I disagree about this. But perhaps I’m being unreasonable?

Our buyers put in an offer on first viewing (as did others) and we accepted theirs as it was the highest. They wanted to come back again after it was accepted and that was fine and did.

Now they want to come back again tomorrow (all this has happened in the last 10 days) and I feel a bit

DH thinks this is normal, that they want to see stuff, and what’s the big deal?

But I think they’re having second thoughts. It’s also a bit of a pain as we have children and I feel like I have to show the place perfectly each time and clean, clean, clean because of Covid before and after.

Am I being grumpy that I don’t want three visits in about 10 days when they’re under offer? And that we had multiple offers, and I could have accepted someone else’s?

I definitely get the feeling this will keep happening, or that they’ll try and knock ££ off (the house went to offers over).

What do you think?

I'd allow the third and talk to them.

Say you're happy to accommodate this one but would rather no more viewings until close to exchange, explain the disruption on kids and the hassle cleaning, make up a really busy job if you need to.

Maybe also joke that the viewings are making you nervous they're going to pull out and gauge their reaction, and tell them that if they're having second thoughts you'd prefer they pull out sooner rather than later as you have lots of other offers to fall back on at the moment.

And since you do have lots of other offers, try to relax, in this market its annoying but you could easily call one of them back and switch buyer.

Say no. 3rd visit should be near exchange. If they insist, I'd tell them and the EA that you're open to other offers.

Our buyers, when we sold in late 2019, were like this and they were total bellends.

We had three requests for viewings after offer accepted, for all sorts of ephemera, including ‘to check that the loft is boarded’. The last occasion we told the EE that it had to be the last and that other things could be checked after exchange.

A week before exchange they said they wanted to knock 20k off the asking price as they had had a roofer inspect the roof which they said needed replacing, and all the sash windows needed redoing. We told them to jog on and took the house off the market. In the end they came back and we sold at the original price, but they were truly dicks of the highest order.

Hope yours aren’t like this.

I find it really odd that we make the biggest purchase of our lives after so few viewings!

We saw our current house 3 times - we offered after viewing one, then went again the weekend after the offer was accepted just to make sure we 100% did like it before everyone's time was wasted. Our final viewing was about a month before exchange but we only did that one as we knew our sellers had already moved so we weren't putting them out in any way.

Three viewings is very common op. As a seller if you stop them viewing something which costs in absolute terms such a lot of money they will think you’re trying to hide something. They could be excited, or worriers etc, just let them crack on, if it becomes too often habe a word with the agent. Right now it’s not.

We recently moved house and did two viewings on the house we bought . The vendors were not in both times so both viewings were about an hour long. We also drove back a couple of times to see the house from a distance and see it at different times of the day. Our buyers had two viewings first was an hour then the second they brought both sets of parents and after an hour they were still measuring and discussing and our agent delicately suggested that they might be taking up a lot of our time! they asked to come back and measure up after we accepted their offer but we said we would send measurements to them. I would just use Covid as an excuse not to come again?
Incidentally our buyers tried to take photos on their first viewing our lovely agent caught them and quickly and firmly told them that they could not take photos inside someone’s home!

More than a couple of times would annoy me, tbh. I had a flat on the market several years ago and a couple made an offer but then wanted to keep coming back. I think they asked for about four viewings in the end, tried for another one and I said no.

The thing that irritated me was the way they asked - it was always in the form of a demand and they’d insist I wasn’t there. It’s a two bed flat, FFS, how many times do you need to view it? They ended up being a nightmare and tried to gazunder me so I pulled out.

It's a big purchase and I think buyers are feeling under pressure to get an early offer in due to the current housing market.
In that respect, I could understand them wanting another viewing.
BUT... they should not be contacting you directly. You need to get the estate agent back in the loop, especially if there may be awkward conversations to be had.