Any positive stories of relisting after chain has fallen apart?

[lannistunut]

How do you get motivated to relist and starting searching again after a chain falls apart?

We had a nice simple chain, we were happy with the house we were buying, had a decent buyer - now it has all fallen apart (the one we were going to buy has pulled out of their purchase and think our buyer will move on too).

We need to start looking again and remarket ours, but I can't. be. arsed. Do you have any words of wisdom, motivation - or nice stories of finding a lovely house after a disappointment? I'm too tired to start again!

Watching with interest after call with agent today

Maybe we will just have to motivate each other @readytosell as no one else has come to rescue us just yet

What has happened with yours?

The whole process is such a drag, I was wondering about raffling it like some people do!

Ours nearly fell apart today, and still might. I spent some time clearing the garden so we can re-list immediately if required because I think if I put too much thought into it then I'll never do it.

It is vile. You both have my sympathy

I have decided to put my energy into disposing of all the things for the charity shop etc that we wouldn;t want to move, to put my energy into something useful whether we stay or go.

We need a support group!

I hope your agents both have good news for you in the days to come

My seller's seller has had a bad survey. Which is fair enough... but I cannot believe it has taken this long to just get the survey back. I know surveyors have been busy but it's about 6 weeks since chain completed...

They were buying it as a doer upper so just got to wait to see what they decide. And then they're off on holiday next week ! So if they pull out it's not like they'll be about to look at other places. Ugh.

Ugh indeed @readytosell

Its not easy. We had this last year after our buyer pulled out and we had 2 weeks to find a new one. It was SO HARD doing all the tidying and the keeping the place clean again but we had 7 viewings in 6 days and 2 offers. All I can say is it takes determination and its worth it in the end

Thank you for posting @IndiaMay this is the hope - that it will be worth doing it again.

I have this feeling that people will want to view when it appears on rightmove again - but my EA says this is not the case.

@lannistunut

Thank you for posting *@IndiaMay* this is the hope - that it will be worth doing it again.

I have this feeling that people will want to view when it appears on rightmove again - but my EA says this is not the case.

Your AGENT said that?! Maybe you need a new agent!

Oh no - I have just misquoted my poor agent!

I should ahve posted I have this feeling that people WON'T want to view when it appears on rightmove again - but my EA says this is not the case.

Sorry agent!

Really feel for you and everyone else who has been through similar. Our sale fell through 3 times last year due to problems lower down the chain. We lost out on dream house and I was devestated.
Long story short, the person that ended up with our dream house didn't like it (too big) and wanted to downsize. Estate agent showed her our newly renovated bungalow and so we bought eachother's houses. Crazy.

@User65412

Really feel for you and everyone else who has been through similar. Our sale fell through 3 times last year due to problems lower down the chain. We lost out on dream house and I was devestated. Long story short, the person that ended up with our dream house didn't like it (too big) and wanted to downsize. Estate agent showed her our newly renovated bungalow and so we bought eachother's houses. Crazy.

That's like a romcom plot but for houses and owners

So sorry to hear this has fallen apart from you.
It's totally crap and stressful!
We had similar, our buyer pulled out two weeks before we were due to complete! We don't think they had the funds after all that! It was an easy chain but then we remarketed and by the end of the week had a new buyer. The chain was more complicated, we dropped 5k off the asking price and lost literally thousands in storage and other moving costs. We also then lost our onward purchase as they wouldn't wait for us!
BUT we have now exchanged, one week from completion and found a much much nicer property to buy.
So it has been totally shit and stressful and living out of boxes but hopefully there is some good news at the end!
Good luck and the sooner the better to get it back on the market!!! I ended up getting in cleaners each time because it was so stressful!

found a much much nicer property to buy This is nice news @wetrainday - good luck getting to the finish line!

I am channelling both the fact I am not alone and that people have happy endings.

We had bloody horrible, bully neighbours who in cahoots with some other neighbours used to send their kids out to throw stones at cars, pull up flowers in people's gardens and generally be horrible. Reason? They were miserable themselves (he was a pot smoking idiot and horribly abusive to his wife and kids and i think it just rubbed off on the way they treated the world). Anyway,lovely older couple were supposed to be buying the house and I had many a night feeling a bit bad at what they may have let themselves in for. Our purchase and our buyers purchase fell through within days of eachother. Bearing in mind we used to get verbally abused by said neighbour pretty much every time we left the house (end of cul de sac) we loathed removing the sold sign. But a few weeks later, we re-sold to a single lady, for more than asking price. She turned into a complete bitch, demanding we moved out ahead of our due completion (around 16 to18weeks I think from memory, she was from Iceland and no explanation of British conveyancing was going to change her mind) which left us homeless with nowhere to go (she could have accomodation at the universitywhere she worked which we offeredto pay for too). We agreed after many threats to walk away from the purchase as we were going to lose our purchase and a lot of money if it all broke down again.

She still lives there today. I call it karma. As those ankle-biting kids will be teenagers now.

Re-list and you will be back on track shortly 🤞

@Suzy39 thank you! I am glad you got away.

We had to re-list after our buyer's buyer pulled out. So glad we did as we found new buyers over one weekend and ended up with four offers, one at asking. Somehow the timing was much better second time around, first round it took over three weeks to get a realistic offer (much lower than what we sold the house for in the end).

Yes me! My buyer buggered about and then withdrew. I got another estate agent, remarketed and had an offer in two weeks.

You need only proceedable buyers and you need your EA to be aggressive to get it sold.

I was interested in a bungalow which had fallen through 3 times!

I think this is quite common particularly now as people have either over extended themselves or made decisions based on what they think would happen like working from home.

It will sell again!

I am feeling slightly less despondent today, and thank you for your good stories as they have helped!

I have also been helped by looking at the available pool of properties like mine currently on the market - very very limited choice. I live in a popular area and there is only one other property in my price/size bracket within a considerable radius and it has visible damp.

So I am more hopeful.

I am waiting to see if our buyer has officially walked away, and then will relist soon if they have.

We had to remarket when our buyer pulled out - twice! We stupidly re-accepted their offer. I don't think she realized the implications of making an offer etc.

However we ended up with a higher than asking price offer from a couple who didn't want a survey and we completed in 7 weeks.

OP, September is probably a really good time to re-list as people will be energised after the summer to find something to move in by Xmas/ early next year. We re-listed in September and had lots of interest, more than during the spring actually!