How many viewings should I expect?

[Tryingtosell]

We’re selling our first home, a small house on a fairly busy road in the provinces.
We’ve only had 2 viewings in the first 2 weeks. We didn’t go for the highest estimate, but put it on with the agent £20K less as I think it’s about right from my researching local sales. We went for viewings from proceedable buyers only to avoid time wasters.
I’m really disappointed tbh.
How many is typical (not counting London as I assume it would be loads there).

I always think agents sell you the dream about how they have multiple people for open days etc to get your business. Then it’s a slow trickle of people through the door. If you went multi agent but agree the same terms with both (they usually make their commission higher if you go multi agent… try to negotiate this) … they will work harder ti get more people through the door if they think they have competition for commission. You should also have a 14 day cooling off period for any service bought so I’d check your contact and go back to them if you’re not happy. It just takes the one right person to love your house..Good luck

After an initial 3 or 4 in the first week its now a slow trickle. We have maybe 1 or 2 a week on average but we didn't only allow procedable viewers.

I think it depends on the price, the house and the market in your area. We’re in the North East, my sister & BIL are first time buyers currently looking for a home and they’re really struggling to even manage to get a viewing before the house is sold. A few weeks ago a house went up for sale on the Monday, they rang and booked a viewing for the Wednesday evening and got a call Tuesday morning to say viewing cancelled as an offer had already been received and accepted. Then the next house went up mid week and they had a weekend viewing, as they arrived someone else was leaving and as they left someone else was arriving, that house sold by the weekend. One of my friends and her husband have been looking for awhile, due to complete next month but they missed out on a few, the house they’re completing on they were 1 of 16 booked viewings and insisted when their offer was accepted that the others be cancelled. That said though there’s also houses round here that have been up for sale for 6+ months with very little attention, even with multiple price reductions. It seems to be that the great houses go crazy fast here at the minute and then the others sit for months on end.

If priced right - most of the viewing bookings and possible offers will come in the first couple of weeks from active buyers. Only 2 viewing and no offer suggests your agent has been overly optimistic on price I'm afraid.

Not for the faint hearted, but I’ve noticed if you post a rightmove link here you usually get loads of traffic!

Two viewings in two weeks isn’t much but I guess you did reduce the number of potential viewings yourself by making a stipulation about the buyers being in a position to proceed.

Still, it’s too early to say the price needs to be reduced. I would give it another couple of weeks at least to see if the viewings pick up or disappear completely.

I would guess that the busy road is the principle driving factor here. It will automatically cause (guess) 80/90% of potential buyers to ignore it.

It just means that you may need to wait a little longer to net the prospect in the remaining 20/10%.

Did your research include checking houseprices.io?

The market's really stuck at the moment. I really thought there'd be a big bounce in the autumn with the interest rates coming down on mortgages, but it really doesn't seem to have changed. There aren't many people out there actively looking and many of those that are haven't got their own sale in place. It's not just you. You'd get a few more viewers if you let the non-proceedables in, but it won't get you offers.