Searching for our forever home

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Our house is on the market with lots of positive viewings and a couple of offers in within a week of going on Rightmove.
However, we are really worried that we won't find our forever home!

There's nothing in the market currently that we like enough to go and visit, but don't want to settle for something that isn't right for us.

Does anyone have any experience of leaflet drops/adverts etc being successful? Or is there anything else we could consider.

We have quite a specific list of requirements and know that it's going to be hard to find the right house for us, but a healthy budget so trying to remain hopeful!

Thanks!

I would hope and see what is currently available. If nothing else, it helps to focus your mind on what you really want.

FWIW, the house we bought (and love) wasn't one I would have gone to see on Rightmove photos alone. The agent suggested it, and it was perfect for us.

Leaflet drop as in seeing a house you like and asking if the current owners are thinking of selling?

Someone tried that with my parents house and it backfired on them.

They lived quite close and had apparently admired my parents house so dropped a nice hand written letter through the letterbox explaining how they loved the house & garden and could see their family growing up there.
Unfortunately (for them) this happened very shortly after my Ddad's death (whether they knew this I have no idea) and obviously it upset us but we ignored it and did not write back.
A few years later my Dmum died and the house went on the market, attracted a lot of interest eventually going to B&F.
The same people were the first to view and indeed offered the most but the timing of their earlier letter rankled and we did not accept (although we did not say why).

A very specific set of circumstances but oddly enough something I have since heard a few times (not to be confused with predators who pray on the estate of the recently deceased and grieving family).