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I am so sick of hundreds of viewings and NOT ONE offer on our house!!

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allgonebellyup · 06/04/2008 10:00

Everyone who comes round says it is gorgeous, great condition etc.
i tidy and clean it til its immaculate when people come round, and a few people have come back for 2nd viewings.
It is already around 15k under what i think the selling price should be....why hasnt it sold????????????????

I am so sick of time wasters whose houses are even on the market yet coming round, i have told the agents to only send serious buyers round. its been on market since Nov.

Hmmmph. I would buy our house, its lovely,victorian so huge rooms and new wooden floors.

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ScienceTeacher · 06/04/2008 10:01

Can you 'house doctor' it?

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allgonebellyup · 06/04/2008 10:05

Just got a phone call this very minute saying my viewing at 10.30 has just been cancelled!

i have just spent 2 hours tidying up and cleaning!!!!

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MissChief · 06/04/2008 10:09

"open house" it? Re-vamp its marketing - new agent, new photos, new angles??

artichokes · 06/04/2008 10:09

Same is true for our house. Lots of viewings, everyone gives very positive feedback, yet we have had no offers at all.

I think it is just the state of the market. Nobody is offering unless they are desperate to move. Everyone else is waiting for this much predicted massive crash. There are loads of houses we looked at in November (before outs was on the market) that are still on the market, and we loved them, would happily have offered if we had been in a position to do so.

artichokes · 06/04/2008 10:10

I meant to ask, where in the country are you?

ScienceTeacher · 06/04/2008 10:10

Declutter, depersonalised, neutral decor?

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allgonebellyup · 06/04/2008 10:20

It is already totally decluttered, nearly depersonalised and very neutral decor (white walls in every room and solid wooden floors)!!!

The garden is very small and i know this puts some people off, so i dropped the price 10k, then another 10k!!
Some people are asking me why it is so cheap????

But yes, am going to use another agent this week, get new photos etc..

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allgonebellyup · 06/04/2008 10:20

am in west sussex

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allgonebellyup · 06/04/2008 10:37

give me advice, goddammit!!!!!!!!!!!!

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cece · 06/04/2008 10:46

Have you had any feedback from the viewers? That might give you a clue. What does your agent say?

windygalestoday · 06/04/2008 10:46

why do you want to move?

lalalonglegs · 06/04/2008 11:40

I think you've got to look at the reasons you want to move - small garden, is the space inside at a premium as well? - and then put yourselves in the viewers' shoes: they will be picking up on the same drawbacks. It is frustrating but you are not alone - one property website last week claimed that 80% of homes that were on their site in August are still for sale .

Whenever I have sold, I have found that the best, most glorious feedback comes from people who have had no intention of buying my home (and probably no one else's either) but just fancied an afternoon out. I would guess that, even if someone fell in love with your place, they still might not be in a position to move as they may have difficulty selling their own place/getting a mortgage at the moment. Most will be taking a wait and see approach - putting your home on a potential shortlist and seeing if it is still available in a few months when, they hope, the price may have gone down again.

nkf · 06/04/2008 11:41

It's probably too expensive. Sorry but that's usually the reason houses don't sell.

Islamum · 06/04/2008 11:44

We had exactly the same when we tried to sell, market is just rubbish at the mo, no advice but lots of sympthy

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 06/04/2008 11:55

yep we're in the same boat -- it's the market. lots of people looking, no-one buying. our estate agent tells me as well that lots of aspiring buyers have had their mortgage offers withdrawn. a really lovely house we made an offer on last summer is still on the market and the asking price has been cut by 100 grand! (bet they wish they'd taken our offer now...)

SchnitzelVonKrumm · 06/04/2008 11:57

nkf, in the current market if you thought the house was too expensive you'd make an offer.

nkf · 06/04/2008 11:59

The thing is all you people trying to sell are part of the market. The market isn't something "out there". It's people refusing to make offers unless they feel it's a bargain and people refusing to drop prices because they want to keep the maxium amount of equity. If sales are forced on people, that's when the fall will start. It's a standoff at the moment. Buy to let is the one to watch.

nkf · 06/04/2008 12:01

Yes Sschnitzel but people are cautious about offers. So many times on here people wonder if a 90% offer is cheeky. And even with 10% off, most properties are still too expensive.

I heard someone grumbling the other day that buyers were taking the piss with their offers But to my mind her house is way over priced. Insanely expensive.

TotalChaos · 06/04/2008 12:02

agbu - we were in same position. had an offer from someone who hadn't sold theirs yet. fast forward several months - and guess who ending up buying it - the viewers who had finally managed to sell their house. So I would let "time wasters" come, but not bust a gut with the tidying etc.

MissChief · 06/04/2008 12:05

to be brutally honest, don't trust the positive feedback from viewers unless they make an offer! It's hard but it's only the negative feedback you'll learn from - the reasons why so many are put off buying.
No-one is going to say to your face that your house is too small/got a horrible garden/dodgy decor etc etc (not that it is, I'm sure!), they're always going to say "oh, it's gorgeous" but this means nothing if they don't follow through, it's a brush-off! I'm speaking from experience here. We were in exactly yr situation and in the end I got the agent to do all the viewings and went out each and every time there was one as i found it so upsetting.
Chances are you'll have to drop the price or not move.

nkf · 06/04/2008 12:08

Or they might genuinely think it's lovely but too expensive.

MadameCh0let · 06/04/2008 12:10

Is it on line? Can we have a butchers

Nemoandthefishes · 06/04/2008 12:11

have you got any pics so we can be nosey help

Nemoandthefishes · 06/04/2008 12:11

oh darn it didnt cross out be nosey

MissChief · 06/04/2008 12:17

hope i didn't offend the poster! Didn't mean to it's just that we suffered months of this and it's hard to understand when it's yr home that it's a simple business transaction and that no-one's going to pay over the odds for it (even if you did which was partly so in our case). If it's not shifting after months, even in this market, then there's something wrong, most likely the price.

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