They’re selling our house!

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So we moved three months ago. Cash buyers for our house (3 bed semi - fairly small) who were desperate to move in quickly. They are an older couple (retired I think) and had sold their house to their daughter. Our house was fully done: rewire, re plumbed, new bathroom, decent flooring, plastered & lined walls, log burner & open fire; kitchen was nearly 10 years old and would have needed redoing eventually but nothing awful.

Anyway, I noticed yesterday that it’s now on the market - for 10k more than we sold it for, so they’re not making any money whatsoever. Anyone got any theories?!

Blimey you're not even allowed to be curious these days
I'd have been really curious too

Downsizer shock I reckon

We had some downsizers view a flat we were selling, they loved it and made an asking price offer but I just knew they would pull out. They’d been asking lots about storage (flat had none) and talking about where would this and that go, clearly they had WAY too much stuff for the flat. They did withdraw their offer about a week later.

If your buyers moved from a larger detached place I wonder if they just couldn’t get used to hearing/seeing neighbours etc as well as the reduced space.

Relocating abroad

But the bricks of a building don't make a happy home, it's the people in it, so not everyone will have the same experience as you.

It sounds to me as if you haven't settled in your new home yet either.

I rented a house a few years ago that I just didn't get on with - I was very excited viewing it, but once I was in it just didn't feel right.

I left after 6 months and found one I loved much more. Maybe that's it?

This happened to me - Except they totally renovated first and then made a loss selling it - turns out the husband spent a fortune trying to get his wife to really love the house but she just couldn't/wouldn't and in the end won the argument and sold - less than 12 months after moving in

I’m doing this as we speak but I’ve been here far less than 3 months. I’ve got other things going on and I just can’t settle. Didn’t appreciate what it would be like living here and I just hate it. Huge lesson learned.

Stamp duty, agents fees, legal fees....

If they were downsizing, selling to a daughter and absolutely desperate to complete, I would say looking at that picture as a whole that their finances were about to take a shit somehow, and they were hoping to be able to free up cash while also hanging on to their old home. I bet they're moving back there, either with their daughter as a soft landlord or something more complicated.

Goodness knows why people think you shouldn't be curious, I would be knocking on the door and asking!

We hated our last house from m the day we moved in. Hated the house, the village, the racism and xenophobia that I hadn’t expected to be so overt, the sheer snobbery over the ‘right address’ end of a tiny bloody street. I gritted my teeth for two years before selling so as not to
lose money, but if I could have afforded it, I’d have left way sooner.

Why was it ‘weirdly phrased’? Either their circs changed or they hate your old house and want to sell it. Those are really the only likely scenarios. 😐

Your attachment to the house has resulted in a 'live haunting'. You are astrally projecting into the property during your sleep, and manifesting as whispers and flittering shadows during your waking. Take a sea salt bath.

You hear of people who end up with mice or rats in their house and can’t bare to live there even after they’ve got rid of them. Could be something like that.
Or maybe you had a resident ghost that was furious you left so has been trying to make the new owners leave! 👻
Could be literally anything.

We hated a previous house from the day we moved in. I'd had my doubts during the purchase process but we'd lost the house we really loved in a contract race and as our buyers were pushing to exchange (they were actually texting us details of properties they thought we'd be interested in, but that were completely wrong for us), we felt backed into a corner and went ahead. Once we were in we both realised our mistake but we sucked it up for three years which felt like thirty before selling at a loss. In hindsight I wish we'd just put it straight back on the market.

When we moved house the couple who bought it sold it 8 months later. She had arrived home and found him in bed with his boyfriend 😱

Note: it’s not your house, it’s their house. And they can do whatever they like with it 🤷🏻‍♀️

I get the curiosity OP. We moved just over a year ago and I still drive by my old house every now and again to see what they've done to the place (they did a lot of work externally). If they were to put it back on the market I'd def book a viewing to see what they've done to the inside too.

I love the phrase 'double dip downsize'.

There is a pressure on people to downsize. They end up buying a similar property, which they don't like as much.

I would guess your buyers have realised what they want.

Anything I have ever really learnt has usually come after a big mistake

I once put a house on the market the same day that I moved in to it.

During the purchase DH was unexpectedly offered his dream job which required relocation.

We are in Scotland so were locked in to the purchase so had to go through with and sell up and move again.

It was at a time of property boom so we were able to cover all our moving costs.

Can we see a link to the house as you dont own it anymore? I dont think it will go for 10k more, market has changed in three months. Happy to be proved wrong though!

I am surprised that some people on this thread (and on MN in general tbh) get through their day. Aren't you bored being that serious and sensible all the time?

I'd be interested too OP! Nothing like a bit of idle curiosity 😀 Love that you called the estate agents 😂😂😂

Hard to just up and move if you need a buyer to allow you to do that though?

This happened with a retired couple on our street, they were desperate to be close to their DD and DGC, found their dream house but after moving in they found it wasn’t right for them. At night they could hear a dual carriage way in the background. They moved again within months.

You seem to be taking this awfully personally, OP. Did you take it personally every time someone viewed when you were selling and turned up their noses?

Houses are pretty personal. Our last house we only bought because we'd been renting it, and the owners (warring siblings who'd joint-inherited from their parents) had decided to sell, and there was literally nowhere else to rent in the village and surroundings. We sold it again within a year when we decided to move on, and made a healthy profit without doing anything more than a coat of paint and a new bathroom.