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Anyone else selling?

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Hibernatalie · 03/04/2023 19:09

We are about to be listed - photographer coming this week. Obsessively checking Rightmove but think we’ve already found the one (could easily go before we can put an offer in but that’s the one we are hoping for).

Anyone else? What position are you in?

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Hibernatalie · 09/04/2023 10:40

@Febb welcome to the sellers club! Good luck. I’m in a London suburb and the market seems funny here - looking at RM it seems like lots are selling quick but not much is going on and there are a few which have been sat there a while. Good luck for Wednesday!!

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Springishereagain · 09/04/2023 11:11

We were but we’re now renting ours out. We
were fortunate enough to be able To buy where we are relocating to without selling ours.

Had very few viewings so decided to convert to buy to let to be mortgage free in our new place.

We are moving 600 miles away.

Mercurial123 · 09/04/2023 13:21

Does anyone else get nervous the sale is going to fall through once you've accepted an offer? I sold my home last year and had 3 buyers pull out as they changed their minds. The survey was fine apart from one issue I fixed before completion.

I am currently selling my rental. One buyer withdrew and now hoping the second buyers complete.

PurpleBananaSmoothie · 09/04/2023 17:26

@Mercurial123 we’re on our third buyer, so really worried about this one pulling out because they’ve already pulled out of one sale before us. Our first buyer was a private buyer who couldn’t make the numbers work (after telling us they could for 2 weeks). Our second buyer pulled out the morning after we accepted their offer. They were in a bidding war with the third buyer (and another person offering) so it went straight to the third buyer as they hadn’t even been told they hadn’t got it. With buyer number 1 we’d viewed a house we loved and put an offer in but it couldn’t be accepted until our private buyer showed evidence they could buy and the house got a proceedable offer before our buyer backed out, so we didn’t really have anything to lose at that point. We did love the house so it was disappointing but not in the middle of the process.

CutesyUserName · 09/04/2023 17:37

Hibernatalie · 09/04/2023 10:38

@CutesyUserName huge congratulations!! Have you found anywhere you like?

No! There is absolutely nothing we like or is suitable on the market where we're moving to. We really liked one house which we viewed, but that sold to a cash buyer within 10 days. The area there is moving really fast for period properties (which we want). We're pretty despondent and can see that we'll probably end up having to put all our stuff into storage and live in our motorhome in the hope that something turns up. We're swinging between euphoria at having sold ours so quickly to 'WTH are we going to do' hour by hour.

Justanothernametoday · 09/04/2023 18:06

Has anyone got any advice for not getting too hung up on the Rightmove search volumes??

My house only went on the market yesterday and I'm already wondering why I have no viewing requests if 887 people have viewed the listing (admittedly 700 ish of those could be me 😂)

Should I largely ignore these? How many hits vs viewings have you all had?

Sorryyoufeelthatway · 09/04/2023 19:01

Estate agents aren't open, so wait until mid next week.

capybara80 · 09/04/2023 19:06

Justanothernametoday · 09/04/2023 18:06

Has anyone got any advice for not getting too hung up on the Rightmove search volumes??

My house only went on the market yesterday and I'm already wondering why I have no viewing requests if 887 people have viewed the listing (admittedly 700 ish of those could be me 😂)

Should I largely ignore these? How many hits vs viewings have you all had?

I've had about 3500 viewings I think I remember sering a week or so ago. 🙀Been on for 4 weeks but only 54 views last week.
I've had 6 viewings and one booked this Wednesday.
3 cancelled last minute, 1 viewed a second time but EA said was a time waster.
Dropped by 10k Friday and only one viewing do far after that drop (if they turn up!).

Adviceneeded234 · 09/04/2023 20:28

@Justanothernametoday how can you tell how many views you’ve had?!

Adviceneeded234 · 09/04/2023 20:32

We’ve had 10 viewings so far and the agents have said they expect to get between 3-4 offers (going by the reaction / asking re offering process) but we have two more tomorrow and then we get all bids on Tuesday. I was and am still nervous about the whole process, I keep thinking something will go wrong.

i am hoping we sell as we really want the house we have seen and time is ticking.

Justanothernametoday · 09/04/2023 20:32

@Adviceneeded234 it's through the hub that my agent provides, but says it's data from Rightmove

MrsMontyD · 09/04/2023 20:35

I put my house on the market mid February and sold to a FTB at the end of March (DP completed on his house sale in February), we had two offers on my house in the end and went for the slightly lower one for hopefully a quicker completion. I reduced the price after a few weeks because it was unrealistic, should have overruled the EA in the first place.

We've had an offer accepted on an empty no chain property at just below asking, so only two transactions involved.

The buyers solicitors are already holding things up with getting the memo of sale completed so I'm not holding my breath.

Justanothernametoday · 09/04/2023 20:35

@capybara80 thanks, it's useful to gauge how many views translate to how many viewings, though totally understand that no two properties will be the same

MrsMontyD · 09/04/2023 20:39

We missed two properties we liked, we didn't want to offer until we'd sold, I prefer the property we're buying now so hopefully all for the best.

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Hibernatalie · 09/04/2023 20:44

I did not know you could see RM search volumes?? That’ll get obsessive for me 100% haha

We have only sold once before and the first buyers pulled out so yes, it is a worry. I’ll definitely be asking about position and how keen they are before accepting but there’s not much you can do I suppose.

I am a teacher and start a new job in September so trying not to get hung up on deadlines - I’m already thinking how it would be nice to have a couple of weeks at least in the new house over summer but need to accept it’ll happen when it happens.

One more day now until we are on the market!

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NadjaCravensworth1 · 09/04/2023 21:00

I'm in EXACTLY your position! Putting our house up this week, found our perfect home but not sure whether to make an offer now or wait till ours is on the market. Houses come up so rarely in the area we want to buy that I feel like there's no point in ours being on the market unless we have an offer accepted. I think we'll have to make an offer, she's selling through purple bricks though so we're really going in blind in terms of knowing what her position is and if she's had any other offers etc. So tricky!

MrsMontyD · 10/04/2023 09:38

NadjaCravensworth1 · 09/04/2023 21:00

I'm in EXACTLY your position! Putting our house up this week, found our perfect home but not sure whether to make an offer now or wait till ours is on the market. Houses come up so rarely in the area we want to buy that I feel like there's no point in ours being on the market unless we have an offer accepted. I think we'll have to make an offer, she's selling through purple bricks though so we're really going in blind in terms of knowing what her position is and if she's had any other offers etc. So tricky!

But surely even if she accepts your offer, will she take it off the market if your property isn't even on the market. I couldn't see the point of making an offer until my house was SSTC.

A friend of mine has had her house on and off the market more times than I can remember, and every time the dream property gets sold to someone able to proceed before she gets to that point.

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Hibernatalie · 10/04/2023 13:09

It is really difficult, technically yes you should have an offer before viewing, and I wouldn’t have done it any other way when we sold our flat 6 years ago, but it’s hard to know what to do when there is literally nothing coming on the market that you want to look at. It is, like you say, very tricky!

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Hibernatalie · 10/04/2023 13:10

We go on the market tomorrow. When do you all think we can expect our first viewing? I’m expecting Saturday but keeping the house today in case it’s sooner.

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Fedupofdiets · 10/04/2023 14:43

CutesyUserName · 09/04/2023 17:37

No! There is absolutely nothing we like or is suitable on the market where we're moving to. We really liked one house which we viewed, but that sold to a cash buyer within 10 days. The area there is moving really fast for period properties (which we want). We're pretty despondent and can see that we'll probably end up having to put all our stuff into storage and live in our motorhome in the hope that something turns up. We're swinging between euphoria at having sold ours so quickly to 'WTH are we going to do' hour by hour.

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I am in Shropshire too and in the same boat. SSTC in 10 days to buy a specific house which is now sold and nowt all else to buy. I have given myself a one month deadline and if nothing to buy I am going to pull it off and wait a year. DS is deferring Uni for a year and so it is restricting how far out of the town I can go so we shall see what comes up.

whirlyhead · 10/04/2023 15:52

Put mine up 2 weeks ago, 5 viewings in 10 days, 2 offers, accepted offer from the people I liked the most. I love my house so wanted to sell it to people who would love it too, and the couple obviously fell for it the moment they came through the door which was lovely. No way was I accepting an offer from the poker faced couple who just grunted as they walked around…

PurpleBananaSmoothie · 10/04/2023 16:14

Hibernatalie · 10/04/2023 13:10

We go on the market tomorrow. When do you all think we can expect our first viewing? I’m expecting Saturday but keeping the house today in case it’s sooner.

Ours went on the market on a Tuesday and our first request for a viewing was the Saturday. We then got a second request for a viewing on the Friday (which then didn’t turn up). In most cases when we were viewing houses we would ask for the first possible day that worked for the vendor.

are you doing the viewings or being in for the viewings? Do you have pets or kids? In hindsight the Friday viewing was too much for us because it was my non-working day and so I had a toddler to look after as well as getting dogs out of the house. It’s a balance between wanting to be flexible and accommodating for people viewing vs what is actually possible.

Adviceneeded234 · 10/04/2023 17:08

Ours went up on Tuesday too, we had block viewings Friday (bank holiday) Saturday and today. I suspect the agents will do block viewings for Saturday. I’m surprised they haven’t discussed that with you as in if you are unavailable some days

I find block viewings easier, get them out the way and the house doesn’t have to be cleaned / tidied up for each and very viewing.

good luck! It was so weird seeing our house on right move, we had two noisy neighbours come by straight after too 😂

Adviceneeded234 · 10/04/2023 18:49

We are going to find out tomorrow if we’ve had any offers/ what they are. Eek

Babasghost · 10/04/2023 19:42

I'm finding it tough
I'm selling in rural Ireland, it had a buyer pull out before Xmas.
I've now dropped the price 20k because the pound dropped against the euro and most buyers of rural second-hand property's here are from the UK.

I've had 7 viewings this week but 3 no shows.
God i hate it.

I don't want yo leave my beloved home in the country, but I've got a violent stalker and it's to unsafe to stay.

If only he would die!

Good luck everyone!
X baba