Anyone else putting their home on the market in early 2025?

[newhomein2025]

Just that really - I'm going to be putting my home on the market soon, and hoping to find something to buy too. It's due to divorce, but I'm actually feeling ready to move on and find a wee place just for me and my teenager. I'm slightly dreading the process, and all the associated hassle, and worried that I won't be able to find somewhere I can afford nearby, but excited to start again. Anyone else planning on selling and buying in 2025 and want to keep me company?

Ours went on the week before Xmas.

We've had 4 viewings and one offer (which is great but they haven't sold theirs yet - so its not a "real" offer yet)
Another viewing lined up this week.

However there is nothing we want to buy! It just seems to be flats coming on the market in our area - so we have no possible onward house yet.

After 5 plus weeks since out initial agent visit we are going to market tomorrow.

We’ve had lots of issues with the agent but are tied in for 20 weeks .
I’m not sure whether to hope these guys get a buyer or not..
we had a choice of two companies who deal with our type of property but chose the ones who sold it to us a few years ago .
Would it look bad if we change agents after their tie in is up ? Would people think there’s something wrong with the property?
Anyone want a lovely big house in rural Norfolk 😉?

I spoke to our estate agent this morning and arranged for it to go back on the market w/c 24th Feb because we've a few things going on before that. However, a lovely house in the perfect place has come onto the market today. We're going to see that on Saturday, and if we like it I'll take a couple of days off work next week to get the house back to 'show home ready' and we'll get it on sooner.

Went on the market on the 6th of Jan, 2 viewings, but no offers, there are 5 other similar sized and priced homes in the area, were a small market town, were expecting it take a while to sell 😓

Good luck to you all. Can I suggest (having moved last year after 20 years) that you distract yourselves from the shite that comes with the buying and selling process by clearing your loft and shredding paperwork. You may all be more organised than I was, but I wish someone had told me to get in with that whilst I waited to sell. Hope you find your dream homes.

We went back on 2nd Jan and had a viewing and offer last week. Now on the hunt again for our onward purchase!

we're currently in the process of preparing to put our house on. I urgently need to clear & clean dining room then get an agent around.

we went to view a house last week. very promising, but im completely daunted by taking on a damp georgian house with unlandscaped steep garden! eek. but quite grand.

i feel really nervous about putting ours on the market. we've lived here a long time and raised our babies here.

We have got an estate agent coming to value tomorrow. I have been throwing so much stuff out and organising since middle of December. Didn't realise how much stuff we had we didn't need. We still have a fair amount in the garage to sort through. My husband finds the whole thing stressful.

We are looking for a bigger house, currently in the first house we purchased. Started just the two of us, now four of us and have outgrown it!

Do people find you need to have your house listed to look at houses? I presumed they asked this when you call to book a viewing.

Also does anyone work from home - how did you handle viewings?!

they let us view as we are in the process of putting ours on the market. i think they are desperate to keep the market moving so a bit more lax. the house we looked at has been on the market since August.

I don't think ours will go on for another couple of weeks. we have a few minor repairs to make (bit of fence down, paint the porch, tidy playroom - argh!). But i want it done before people view.

I think so. Our agent expects our buyer will be a FTB but if they weren’t they wouldn’t advise us to accept an offer if their property wasn’t already under offer.

I guess viewings probably depends on how quick of a market you live in. We’ve been told viewings will only take place on a Saturday and I’m happy with that. I guess if you have a slower interest you might need to accept mid week viewings which will be annoying with working from home!

Ours went on the market on Boxing Day, it’s a cheaper house in our location, 2 bed terrace, first time buy kinda thing. We had 4 viewings in the last 10 days, 2 offers, one proceedable and one not. We’ve accepted the proceedable offer. Can’t find anything we want to view though!

Thanks everyone, that's useful to know. I did think about Saturday only viewings and if someone looked and wanted it see it again sooner maybe we could sort something for them outside that day.

I have a feeling our house might go fairly quickly as others on our street have but then we still need to find somewhere and I've been looking for months and barely seen many in our price bracket, they all seem cheaper and not big enough or £50-100k over our budget! Hopefully more houses will come to market in Feb/march as that's around the time I expect we will have got all our stuff together to list ours.

@IWasBornIn1989 pleased for you to have an offer. Hope you can find something soon! Right move gets obsessive doesn't it!

This might take some of the pain out of house hunting. It's a heatmap which tells you selling prices- so you can figure out whats within budget. If you're not sure where you want to move to, it can really help in the research stage. I have always liked Haselmere, not sure if thats the area where you're looking? Or Worthing is lovely, to be near the sea.
https://housemetric.co.uk/map/50.8556666/-1.7724733/9

Hope all goes well @Olive567

That is a fantastic resource - thanks for sharing 👏

We didn't view anything until we had our house on the market. I don't think it's fair on the vendor as it's a pain having to clear out of the house all the time for a procession of unproceedables.

I work from home full time and my partner does 2-3 days a week. Honestly, it was really disruptive as the EA made little effort to arrange viewings outside of office hours. I found myself trying to juggle my work calls around viewings and given I spend hours a day on Teams calls it was hard. My partner ended up trying to dial into meetings from coffee shops that had music on or babies crying in the background. So consider being quite firm with your EA, even if it means showing people round yourself in the evening or at weekend. Trying to generate interest for a Saturday open day is quite a good idea.

Yes I work from home and we have a dog so I said viewings had to be after 3:30pm or anytime on Saturdays. Worked well for us.

@7upBaby That IS a great resource. Annoyingly, it doesn't cover Scotland, bah!

The estate agent said they do Saturday which is good for us anytime and then maybe one evening a week as well, that would be good so we can just do a big tidy for them. Value on the house was around what I expected, a bit more, so my research matches what they said, phew!

I also felt reassured that the house is likely to sell without me needing to worry about every tiny mark and obsessing too much about it. Apparently people spend on average only 8 minutes viewing!

that's good @OtiMama im currently obsessing about removing every mark from the house! also good news on the value. full steam ahead then? have you picked an agent?

We had 2 valuations one high but exactly were I thought at 525-550 and one low who wanted 475-500. He said he would hope to get 525, but the whole is of going low and having loads of back and forth with offers doesn’t appeal to me.
Ours will be listed on the higher end per sqm but there’s such a range in quality here and the high spec renovated things do seem to sell easily at the higher price point.

Photography is being done on Wednesday, listing live hopefully at the end of that weekend, viewings the following Saturday, EA only takes offers on the Monday by 10, then best and finals by Wednesday.
Lets see if it works out like that!!

Currently doing a few touch ups and things before next week. We’ve a baby and a toddler, thinking about booking a deep clean on the Friday before the viewings. Feel like it would be one less stress rather than cleaning for ages after the kids go to bed.

Hello, can I join you all. I am selling and buying. I have a flat in a small town just outside the M25.

I spent the Autumn doing all the small shitty jobs that you can't be arsed to do when you've lived somewhere for a long time. Got a handyman in to do the bits I couldn't do and refresh some of the paintwork. The place looked immaculate and I wondered why I hadn't get my arse in gear and done all those things years ago!!!! 🙄

Appointed an estate agent at the end of December and incredibly they sold my flat at full asking price before it even went on the market - which I still can't believe.

I found somewhere to buy and had my offer accepted at the end of last week. Now wading my way through the mountain of admin that is required these days. Madly saying mantras & positive affirmations to myself that this is meant to be and the universe wants this for me, so that the gnawing doubt that it will all go tits up is drowned out!

@MargoLivebetter that sounds like the dream experience so far! Hope it all goes well for you.

@StrawberryThief1930 my husband is like is this all too fast...typical! Well we still need to paint our bedroom ceiling first as we had a leak a few years ago and never smoothed it over at the time. We know who we will go for the listing.

How long between doing anything to make the house better for selling and listing did you all take? My husband says I'm so keen haha but I just kind of presumed you just tidy it up and get it listed right! I don't want to spend ages getting it back in order since we did most of it before we've had it valued this week. I appreciate it is such a big commitment for us to go for a bigger house with larger mortgage.

We listed November and sell fell through last week, we went back on the market end of last week and had two viewers so far, 1 yesterday and 1 today. How quickly should we expect offers to come through or at what point do we write them off as potential?

Both give good feedback to me during the viewing and seemed keen but it's so hard to tell if they are just being polite. My dh says some people will spend time thinking and it could be Monday where as I feel like if they're keen they will offer the same day ?!

Our potential buyers now have a buyer for their house, and came back to us with a higher offer - which we have now accepted ... so the hunt is one for our future home :-)

That's great news!