Anyone else recently listed their house?

[ForSale2024]

Our house went live on Monday and we had our first viewing today. We have another tomorrow too. I’m already exhausted from keeping the house immaculate - we have a toddler who makes so much mess!

Anyone else in the same boat? This is the first time we’ve sold a house so have no idea what to expect. We also have a viewing booked in for the most perfect home so trying to not get my heart set on that because I can imagine it’ll go by the time we’ll get an acceptable offer.

I'm 5 weeks in from accepting an offer but I have a 4 year old so totally empathise, we first put the house on the market when DC was 2...

This is the 3rd time we've SSTC as the previous 2 chains fell through at the bottom. 12 months on the market, 50+ viewings took a 6 month break, changed agent and was SSTC within a week. (Fingers crossed third time a charm)

My advise is to tell the agent you only will allow viewings to people who are proceedable unless they are viewing on the same day as someone else who is proceedable. I also made sure to tell my agent I needed at least 24hrs to turn my house around and gave them days I specifically could not do.

Make sure your pics and floorplan is accurate and the best presentation of your house. Declutter as much as humanely possible too. Properly go through what your agent has put up on every site rightmove/zoopla etc and check for mistakes and keep an eye on how it compares to other houses in the same price bracket.

Good luck OP, hope it sells really soon! Xx

Good luck with this buyer @Propertyshmoperty! Thanks for the advice - I’ll definitely call the EA tomorrow and ask for proceedable buyers only, unless on the same day as someone proceedable. Thats going to make my like a lot easier.

How many viewings on average did it take you to get an offer?

Same, I have a 3 year old and a 5 month old and it’s just a nightmare preparing our house for viewings.

We were very fortunate to have our offer accepted on the house we’re buying, before we put ours on the market. They knew our situation when they accepted the offer, but I’m still on tenterhooks and need to get ours sold as soon as possible in case they change their mind!

First and second time we SSTC about 25+ viewings each although our first agent was letting people who weren't proceedable look. We also got an offer from a non-proceedable couple but turned them down as they weren't on the market and offered 20k under asking. We also got a few cheeky 40 to 50k under asking offers trying their luck.

The third time with the new agent we were offered by a serious buyer for a good price after 1 week on the market and 3 viewings.

However we did a better launch, rearranged the furniture, decluttered, staged the photos as much as humanely possible and put a sensible price on it (our first agent overpriced it). Made sure the description was better and the floorplan had measurements on it. (Had to make our first agent put measurements on the floorplan instead of just in the description when we realised they weren't on there several weeks in)

Also little things like made sure they named all the photos so when you brought up the photo on rightmove it didn't say 1748362.jpeg it said "kitchen" or "bedroom3" etc.

Fingers crossed you get a good buyer soon. Xx