Selling a house - what to expect

[Cottonfairy4615]

We put a house on the market late Friday evening, with the estate agent being very optimistic about being ready for viewings Monday (today) on the property.

She is doing all viewings as I'm not local to the house. I should've asked about expectations and stuff as I have no experience of selling a house, but it completely slipped my mind. Would you expect her to phone to let me know if people had booked in viewings, just as an FYI and so I know there is interest, or would she more likely just contact if an offer is put in. I don't want to rush ahead and phone tomorrow, if this is just normal practice.

Just feeling a little disheartened, with the housing market the way it I think I had my expectations set overly high, thinking people would be booking viewings as soon as they could. Very aware though that it has only been on the market for one working day though!

As a recent buyer if your house was in my range I would have seen it on RM on Saturday morning, phoned the EA, if they had any lunchtime viewings available I would have booked to view this week, if not Saturday would be the first day I could view it. Don't forget people have to plan viewings round work.

Yes I would expect the EA to tell you if there have been enquiries and viewing requests made on the house.
I think the most interest in a house is in the first 2 weeks when it goes online as most people are looking on rightmove etc. Once it's been there a while it drops down the search list and becomes less 'visible'

You need to agree with them what level of communication you want. If you aren’t living there then the agent may not think you want to be advised of booked viewings as you’d need to be if you were living there. Just advise you’d appreciate to know when a viewing has been arranged, to be told afterwards what the feedback was, and a brief catch up call once a week / fortnight for any insights.

My house went on the market on Friday, 30 viewings booked for Fri evening to Wednesday. 15 offers made Monday morning so it's off the market now and remaining viewings are cancelled.
But I live in the house and along with DH we did viewing after viewing after viewing all weekend. So I imagine its very different not living in it or doing the viewings.

I think I'm just very nervous as it's very dated, bordering a bit eccentric and the colour scheme is not at all attractive. We made the decision just to put it up as I'm a student with a 1 year old living 3 hours away, so I don't have the time to do it up to sell it.

Just want to get this whole process over and done with!

I put my late parents house on the market in Nov
It was empty as a probate property and also elderly persons house so in need of modernisation
The estate agent told me they were doing viewing on Tuesday & Wed
I had several offer by Friday
Went to final offers by the following Tues and
Accepted one on the Thursday - £20k over the asking price

Okay, was just panicking over nothing. 6 viewings booked for this week so far. Fingers crossed!

The estate agent must inform you.