Can I just have a cry on here about my house situation please?

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Suitable houses rarely come up in my search area (once every 5 years) and one came on. We immediately put our house up for sale (literally within one day). Two weeks later we have not had a single viewing. Not one. The forever house is having its last viewing day on Friday and then by Monday all offers need to be in. We can't offer without being sold.

I'm genuinely unbelievably upset. We spent lockdown doing our house up to be in perfect condition and yet absolutely nobody wants to buy it. And that means we will never get a house in our search area (please don't suggest changing the search area. It's not possible. We'd need to stay in our current house rather than ever move outside it)

Which means if another house comes up ever again we won't get that either and I'm absolutely miserable about that. We can't sell and rent because rental houses never come up and also it could be a decade before another house comes up. We really really want this one.

It sounds like I'm feeling melodramatic and sorry for myself but I'm completely gutted. Gutted no-one wants our lovely house and gutted we'll never be able to move. I keep getting weird rises of panic/anxiety about it all.

We're on with the agent that's selling but the forever house will sell whether to us or anyone else. They haven't given actionable feedback as it's just that one room is small. Which it is but the rest is great. And it's a lot of house for the money. No viewings. No interest. Utterly devastated at the hopeless future.

Is your pricing realistic do you think? Could you go lower to encourage interest and get a quick sale? Why is another area not at all possible?

Show us your Rightmove link and let MN do its makeover magic on the listing.

You could post a long here and we can give ideas feedback as to potential blockers to viewings?

It’s always the price. Reduce by a good amount to secure the house you want

Yes, you need to reduce the price of yours.

If you put it up so quickly are the photos showing it in its best light (appreciate this is me, but I’d need days to be ready for sale pics and viewing)

I'm really sorry you're feeling so low about it all. However, if it's been 2 week and you haven't had a single viewing then I suspect it's overpriced.

Would you be brave enough to share a link to your property OP to get some advice?

you must reduce the price.

This.

If the area is as sought after as you say it is, then it makes absolutely zero sense for your own house to have no interest unless it's wildly overpriced.

It really isn't. It can be any number of things, including lack of off-street parking, poky, dark rooms, awkward layout, poor location, no garden, tiny or unkempt garden, ugly house, horrible decor, house needs too much work, on a busy road, and so on.

Are you sure you have to have an offer on yours to offer? I mean I know it’s ideal but we had an offer accepted before having an offer to sell. Worth speaking to the agent. You never know the circumstances of others offering

but yes as others have said you may need to reduce the price of yours?

There will of course always be things that put buyers off, but you will always find someone happy to overlook those things if the price is low enough.

It’s always the price. Reduce by a good amount to secure the house you want

It really isn't. It can be any number of things, including lack of off-street parking, poky, dark rooms, awkward layout, poor location, no garden, tiny or unkempt garden, ugly house, horrible decor, house needs too much work, on a busy road, and so on

it really IS the price. At a lower price SOMEONE will buy it. At the right price someone will compromise on the lack of off-street parking, poky, dark rooms, awkward layout, poor location, no garden, tiny or unkempt garden, ugly house, horrible decor, house needs too much work, on a busy road, and so on.

How desperate are you and how much of a loss can you take? Could you use one of the we buy any house type companies?

I’m sorry but I agree with other posters. If you’re not even getting viewings then it’s the price. Put a link up and you’ll get some diligent posters finding what similar houses in the area recently sold for. Or maybe there’s something obvious that you just never notice that someone here will.

What is the problem with your house? You say it's lovely, but are filled with despair at the thought of being stuck in it... Is it just space? It sounds like you aren't changing area.

Post the link, people will help

Is your house unique and only to the taste of some? If not, then it’s the price.

*And that means we will never get a house in our search area (please don't suggest changing the search area. It's not possible. We'd need to stay in our current house rather than ever move outside it)

Which means if another house comes up ever again we won't get that either and I'm absolutely miserable about that. We can't sell and rent because rental houses never come up and also it could be a decade before another house comes up.*

OK, I’ve been there wanting (and needing) to stay within a small geographic area, but are you really likely to be waiting another decade for another property to come up?

If you can share the link it might help getting some objective feedback.

Either the listing is very poor and not showing off the house well, or it is over priced - or a combination of them both.

Is there any scope within your finances to rent out your current house, moving it to a but to let mortgage, then getting a new residential mortgage to buy a new house with?

We have a newly redone 4 car driveway. South facing good sized garden. Central within the search area so close to neighbourhood amenities but not so close it's noisy. Ugly house yes. It has little kerb appeal. Decor is neutral and newly done. No work needed at all. Quiet wide road.

Photos were done quickly but not badly I thought. The price is competitive because 3 houses like ours sold in the last 6 months. 1 more 1 same and 1 less (but smaller bedrooms and less downstairs space). We're already at the low end with offers over the low end amount.

I'm a Rightmove addict so am completely hot on what goes for what in my area. I can't move for a multitude of personal reasons including future schooling catchments. The provision locally is dreadful except in this one area.

The agent has said they've been told to only accept proceedable offers. Which isn't us. It's minimising the inconvenience and stress for the seller.

I can't out myself with a listing and honestly what's really going to change between now and next Monday. My house is absolutely lovely but I can't change the fact the garden is smaller than we need (although good for houses of its size) or that it's in the middle of a terrace of 3 so can't extend anymore.

We have all our equity in our house. Only have less than a 50% LTV but need that to afford the new one. We have salaries around the average which is a lot less than you need in our relatively expensive neighborhood (we bought when it was a hidden gem. Now everyone wants in!)

Agree with everyone else it must be overpriced, to not even have a viewing in this market is telling you that.

I looked at them but we couldn't afford the new one if we did it that way unfortunately.

We'd only just finished decorating so it was unusually tidy!