How to politely change estate agents

[DreamsAreFading]

Our house has been up for sale since August. We have had to do all of the chasing with our agent and we haven’t had a single viewing. We have dropped the price by a lot even though it was priced the same as other similar properties at the start. We are long out of the 4 week contract with them. The house is at a give away price now - very little over what we paid for it 18 years ago, and we can’t afford to drop the price any further. The only thing we can think to do is fire the agent. But how do I go about that without causing offence? How do you approach another agent without looking flaky? Do we approach another agent before we fire this one?
Thanks.

Give them a month’s notice but ask them to remove your house details from their website and Rightmove immediately. You’re well within your rights to ask that. In the meantime, look for another EA.

Just list with multiple (reputable) EAs, get the house out there. The "change the wallpaper" thing that used to happen on forums seems to have morphed into "change the EA"? Maybe not this case, but in most cases this is just a form of denial, in most cases the house isnt selling because of the price it is listed at.

No. Lack of viewings is a failure of marketing. Price is part of marketing, and can sometimes be the one thing that is putting viewers off. But it’s not the only thing. Pictures — what they’re taken of, their quality, even the order in which they’re shown — are really important. Also floor plan and measurements.
And then you actually need the agents to be responsive and to arrange the viewings!
Multiple agents are expensive and unnecessary.

Multiple agents are expensive and unnecessary

Absolutely. In the world of Rightmove/Onthemarket, multi-agency listing is completely unnecessary

Not only unnecessary but immediately gives vibes of desperation. Weirdly even if a place looked cheap, I’d just think there was something wrong with it and not bother going to view. Buyers are fickle and not just motivated by price, they want to feel like they’re buying something valued and desirable and that will in turn be an easy sell when it’s time to move on.