If you've listed your property this year for sale..

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How many weeks were you on the market and how many viewings before you got an offer?

We've been on 2 weeks, 5 viewings (no offers) and have a further 2 viewings on Saturday

Feeling disheartened because we've seen a property we like but we're not proceedable yet and I'm worried it's going to get snapped up.

Update- so counter offer was accepted however they've not submitted paper work until they've viewed again.
Any thoughts on this?

9 days, 3 viewings and one asking price offer. I think I got very lucky!

Ah yay, congratulations! Another viewing just sounds like they want to be sure. Definitely let them view again and keep us updated.

We had one of our viewings yesterday lunchtime but we haven’t heard back from them so I’m not hopeful for an offer now. We have another viewing for Friday morning but they’re not procedable so even if they love it there’s not much that can happen. There are also some similar houses in our town that a similar price to ours but have recently reduced so looks like we’ll have to reduce as well :(

It's not necessarily a bad sign about the paperwork, they just might be cautious.

My update is that while we were waiting for the 2% below asking price couple to come back with a better offer we received another offer for the asking price and accepted it. The second couple are in a better position and seem very keen.

Now I am trying to arrange a second viewing over the weekend of the place we might buy. It's finally happening!

Our buyer has failed some mortgage checks etc...got another agent going over on monday to have a look....possibly thinking of letting it out for a year or two now as it already has the licences and paperwork in place...but need to do some new windows...agent friend suggests put on at 825 and try to get 815k...

Update- we are now SSTC! Yaaay.

Now to try and secure the house we want, I know they've had some offers but not sure those are proceedable buyers.

Ooh that’s good -did you get fairly close to the asking price?

@Twiglets1 Very close to the asking price, they offered below but we counter offered and they accepted.

Great - congratulations!

For those worrying there's been no offer the next day, I waited six days for mine and my agent said he's had people come a month later and offer. Mine isn't enough but we'll see what comes of the next four viewings.

Sold in October. On 4 days, 6 viewings booked but not all came and one asking price offer. This fell through as our purchase just took forever to find somewhere and they were expecting a baby. We ended up pulling our offer and offering somewhere else and they then pulled out.

Sold again in April. On for 10 days, 8 viewings booked again not all attended. Three asking price offers and went to sealed bids.

Fingers crossed it all actually goes through this time.

On for 9 months around 15 viewings, no offers. Very disappointing and painful. People are spoilt for choice in our area and we are already in loss.

On for 4 weeks with 4 offers. Full asking price accepted and on the cusp of agreeing an exchange date.

EIght weeks, about 20 viewings, two offers, both rejected, one price reduction of 5%.

Currently seem to have two or three viewers who've been round twice and are interested. It's a solid 1930s semi in a suburb of London with good schools, in a street that is very popular as it has a lot of green spaces. But a big utility project involving a lot of construction work has been mooted and the street might be the entrance point for all the large lorries. The house also has a few features needed by my elderly parents that would probably need to be taken out, and the kitchen is the original 1930s galley size. It would need someone wanting to do some extension work, who perhaps can live with the construction lorries (which might, fingers crossed, not happen...) It's all in good, fresh condition and well maintained. My parents lived in it for nearly 60 years, and I anticipate a few paperwork issues as, although they kept every piece of administrative paper, certification and receipt, building work done in the 1970s, when they extended into the loft, was not regulated in the same way as now. I anticipate that any surveyor's report will be ... interesting.

Offers came in from day 1. They keep coming. All so far below asking price and area comps I don’t know what to do about it. Waiting for local area prices to adjust most likely.

Sorry to say....on for a year, sold for what I paid. Desirable area in London.

4 viewings in 3 weeks. Third one made an offer on 14th Feb.
Moved 28th May. No chain for either of us but still took 12 weeks

Listed in February. No viewings, agent was useless, sacked them. Listed in April, had several viewings and several offers. Accepted the one close to exchange and completion and going to stay with relatives they said. Twelve weeks later, we discovered they hadn’t sold theirs at all. Not prepared to wait indefinitely. Decided to stay put, but then gave it one more go at the beginning of August with the agent selling the houses we were interested in.

Several viewings and sold in three days. We moved three weeks ago.

I sold my house three times in two months. July to September. It's taking forever due to my nightmare vendors. I'm now buying somewhere else so the chain has had to be broken and I have got another three months until I move.

2 weeks, 20 viewings (but estate agents did them in blocks of 6 or 7, so we only had to prepare the house for viewing 3 times). 3 offers - one silly low one which we didn’t take seriously, but two very good offers. We accepted an offer from FTBs, who the EA said were the most keen buyers he had ever seen. Sale went through very smoothly with absolutely no nonsense from the buyers.

Guess we were very lucky, the EA seemed quite surprised.