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?

A SW suburb of London.

Thanks! "Position to proceed" will be my terminology.

Although surely there's always peeps who say stuff like "I may be a developer but my boss needs to come back from far far away and approve the final amount. But I can approve an offer of £35,000 less...."

Doesn't matter what they say. The house stays on the market until the EA has seen proof that they are able to proceed.

Thanks! Go Menolly! If we all had a weyr, we'd have less of a problem...

Of course.

But if they try that tactic, (gazundering?) I will NOT sell them the house. IMO it's despicable behaviour. I used to work somewhere with a manager who actully boasted of doing this. Dreadful.

ditto Devon

Southeast Scotland

We're central Scotland.

@newhomein2025 @User93993993 Also central Scotland and thinking about selling this year. What are you looking to buy? Could do a house swap lol 😝
We’re looking to downsize slightly. Just feels like we work loads to pay for a house we can’t even enjoy. Can’t get what we want round here so looking Perthshire area. Needs to be commutable to Stirling. Currently drive everywhere so a walkable school run would be amazing.

@AHouseInTheForest I need somewhere commutable to Edinburgh, and would like to stay in the same wee area I'm currently in - not much comes up and esp in my modest price range so I'm just hoping hard!

We're selling a house about 7 miles from our nearest town. It is a big 5 bed 4 bath plus study with a big garden, but we want to be in the town. Eldest kid is at Edinburgh uni and needs to be able to get to and from on the bus at weekends, middle two doing higher prelims (my dad here and dss with his mum in Dunfermline but needs the option of getting up here, and youngest dsd here half the week and again old enough to want to get about on the bus.

We'll have to compromise on some things, but just now location is key.

My dd, not dad! My dad died about 25 years ago!

Eldest dd (mine) at Edinburgh uni.
Second dd (mine) in S5, stays here most of the time.
Eldest ds (partners) in S5 but here infrequently because of girlfriend, friends and part time job.
Youngest dd ( partners) here 50% of the time.

It'd be better to be in the town for all of them.

Dorset

Ye, we are close to two lovely villages but want to be in one now the kids are older. Compromise is key isn’t it. We’ll have to lose the big garden but we hardly use it with the weather here. One thing I will not compromise on is parking. DH loved a house that was everything we wanted, but it had no parking and I was wiling to give up the perfect garden, renovated interior and period features that have no bearing on the daily hassle of getting to work, shops etc.

Totally with you there @AHouseInTheForest parking is so important for daily life for me too!

There's NOTHING new coming to the market here in the bracket we'll be looking in (when we eventually get a proceedable offer). No new houses at all since the 19th December and no good houses since mid-November or earlier! It's insane! The good news is that every house I saved when we started this marathon in September is still on the market now.
Nothing. Is. Moving. Arghhh!

Where about are you in the country @BunnyWilliams?

North/West Yorkshire/Lancashire. We are near to the border of all three and looking at houses in all.

@BunnyWilliams

Same where we are!
We've had an offer on ours - but there is just nothing suitable for us coming on the market at all.

That must be so frustrating for you. Where are you?

We've had a non-proceedable offer on ours because those people are in the same position as us, although they're selling in Northumberland so it must be slow up there too.

@BunnyWilliams

We are South West London.

We have us, our buyers, and their buyers in the chain so far - so hopefully they aren't in a rush.

All that seems to be coming on lately is flats and then houses over £1m.

We're looking for houses around the £700k to £800k mark but there's nothing.

There is so little coming on where I am looking as well. I'm just outside the M25. I have had my offer accepted but the lack of other stuff coming on is making me so nervous about gazumping. I've taken out house buyers insurance! 😬

I'm really alarmed by how little is on the market, and thinking twice about putting ours on.

@BunnyWilliams we are listing in Leeds soon. Hopefully it's better than where you are from a seller's perspective!

We went on the market this morning and have two viewings for Friday! It's a good job I've just spent the last two days cleaning and getting the house perfect! Apart from teenage dd's room - I'm just working my way up to tackling that!

One of the viewings is a couple who have sold and will be moving out of their house on 28th March, and we've put an offer in on a house today (went to a closing date of Friday - we're in Scotland) so fingers crossed it might all start to move!