How did you decide what price to market your house at?

[AtLastDay]

Soon to be inviting estate agents round to value my house. Despite which agent you chose, how did you decide which valuation to go for?

This was quite a few years ago now, but we basically decided what price we wanted to sell at, and went with the agent who would support that. We'd been on top of our local market for years. So many agents just based the value of our house on recent sales on our street, but we felt our street was undervalued. We went significantly higher than agent recommendation and got full asking price, cash. This was 2017 mind.

When I last sold in early 2022, I went with the agent that I liked the best since all the valuations were around the same mark. However the agent I ultimately went with did say that if I wanted to market higher then they would support it, which the others didn't (but they also didn't say expressly that they wouldn't).

They all came back with the same valuation (we had 4). DH met with them and chose the one he got the best feeling from.

I looked up nethouseprices sold and saw what other houses on my road had sold for, different from what advertised for. Set value at £4k over sold price and let buyer make offer £3k under what we advertised for. I think that price was fair to both me as seller and buyer who likes to think they are getting a bargain. We told EA and they agreed. Said we could market it £5 higher and would get it but it would take longer. We wanted quick sale.

caringcarer Have had a look at nethouseprices - simpler to use than Zoopla. And like the idea of helping the buyer believe they have a bargain.

I used a variety of house price websites before I even had agents round, to get a sense of what I thought it was worth. Their valuations were in line with my thinking anyway, so it was largely about deciding where on that spectrum I wanted to be (i.e. did I want to be at the 'easy sale' point or the 'we could maybe push it to this' point or somewhere in between).