Our house has been on the market for 9 weeks. We put it on for £10k more than we actually want for it in the hopes that someone knocks us down to what we want. It’s had 5 viewers but no offers. Feedback has been really positive. We’ve been in no rush to sell because the market is slow and so next to no houses have come on the market that have been right for us just yet. We even said if there’s no offers by the end of November we will just take it down as it’s becoming a pain now. We said at the start if the right house came along we would reduce ours for a quick sale.
Fast forward to now. The PERFECT house came along yesterday. We viewed last night. It ticks every box we had and the asking price is the top end of our budget, in the perfect location for us as it’s on the estate most of my family live. Its had 3 viewings so far and its only been on the market 1 day so I know its bound to get snapped up.
Ideally, we’d offer full asking price and would love the vendors to accept this offer, take it off the market and give us x amount of weeks to sell. At the viewing, they told us they were in a similar boat to us, they saw a house that had just come on the market, they viewed it and loved it, they put their house on the market that same day, their offer was accepted before their house was on the market and now they just need a buyer and said they don’t think it’s be on for long.
Realistically, one of the other viewers could be proceedable and it’s taken off the market this morning so we don’t want to reduce ours asap if that house is gone!
The viewings were all last night after the office closed so we won’t know what’s happening until this morning.
What would you do? I know if it was me I’d just go with whoever is the most proceedable and I wouldn’t blame them for doing that.
Should I ring up and offer full asking price straight away and tell them how serious we are and how much we love it etc? Or would it be pointless? Or not jump the gun with figures yet because these other viewers may not be proceedable either?