Taking our house off the market. It’s too annoying.

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I’m fed up of having to leave the house every Friday and Saturday, or estate agents turning up early. Or then being super loud and waking the baby from his nap. I’m fed up of having to frantically tidy with five mins notice. This whole process has made me re-fall in love with our existing house.

FYI we live in a pretty popular neighbourhood of London and have a modernised mid terrace. We’ve had 41 viewings, no offers, all feedback has been “we’re thinking about it”. Everything we look at to buy as onwards is being price-pumped to try offset the falling market. Or it looks ok then you realise it needs some renovation work and with 2 year waitlists and spiralling costs, it’s no longer a good deal to renovate.

The reason we wanted to move was a busy street but tbh the volatility of this market and lack of options has made us realise our current place has more of good thing about it. So solidarity with anyone else who’s thinking of coming off the market!

A year and not one viewing? Why aren’t you reducing the price, it’s clearly a mismatch with what buyers value it at. Or I guess you re not really selling, and just test the market.

I agree with @Mildura

@Cottagewitch has an EA problem but also their property is overpriced if no viewings in a year.

Not desperate to sell, no, it was a case of if we can get what they’d valued it at we’d take it but we told them we weren’t interested in much below the valuation. Guessing they have over valued but then again the other agent we had out valued it the same. Who knows. It’s a quirky house, there’s not really anything else on the market like it, and things here take forever to sell, there’s loads have been on the market way longer than us and one of our neighbours said she’d only had two viewings in a year. It’s rural area not in commenting distance to anywhere really so there’s not a massive demand.

I think there must be more to this. I know the market is stagnant but there has to be a reason for a year with no viewings Surely if the property is overpriced, as I’m sure it is, the estate agent would, at some point, have suggested a reduction. If the seller refused to reduce she has no one to blame, other than herself, for there being no viewings.

We have an empty house we have been trying to sell for a year. We're going to rent it out now, at least for 2 years until the market is more stable.

Well at least you didn’t get time wasters then. Otherwise would be same story as OP, 41 forced viewings and no offers. However, from buyer perspective, we want sellers that are motivated to sell, rather than chancers with senseless valuations. So the fees could definitely stop people like that advertising.

I mean I don’t think there’s anything bizarre for us to be on Reddit.. but I’ll take a look!

Apologies for the brutality-

It looks like it smells stale / musty, in the sense that none of the windows are open, the bedding looks like it needs changing in the bedrooms, the furniture looks too lived in, I can smell dogs because the carpet has marks. You could definitely declutter some of the family paraphernalia like pictures and toys. Have some windows open to give a sense of freshness.

Id look at the pictures and think needs decorating, new light fixtures and the kitchen floor looks dated. Also when you get the pictures retaken ask the photographer to wipe the lens on the camera, it will get rid of the blurring, preferably use an iPhone.