Love a house that’s for sale but not yet sold ours

[Pinklady81]

Hello

as above our house is currently on the market and have viewings this weekend again but we have now seen a house we are very serious about . We are going back for a second viewing any tips know we are not in a situation to proceed but it’s our dream house .

Speak to a mortgage advisor about getting a bridging loan @Pinklady81.

Being part of a house buying chain is the eternal seller/buyer frustration.

Our house wasn’t even on the market when we viewed and offered on the house we now live in. Our old house had previously been under offer but we couldn’t find anything to buy so the chain collapsed and we took it off the market until we found something.

I don’t know where this thing about only viewing if proceedable has come from but sellers must lose out if they limit their potential buyer pool in this way.

We were in a similar position, our own house was on the market but not sold. We found a house we loved, had two viewings, and then had to wait.
We sold our own house a couple of months later (slooow market), made an offer, and I’m happy to say that I’m sitting in bed in that house scrolling Mumsnet right now.
It was a quiet market like it is now, I can’t believe all the posters saying that it’s unreasonable to view before you’ve sold!
Funnily enough, there was a house down the road from us now that we loved, but as we hadn’t sold yet, they wouldn’t let us view at the time. It never did sell.

This stuff about not looking until you’ve sold is rubbish. It doesn’t reflect the realities of many buyer’s lives and decision making nor the dynamics of chains. What is your buyer supposed to do while you slowly get going on house hunting and they are sitting there having agreed to buy yours? The whole business is a pain but rigid rules don’t help to free things up.

I just helped my brother navigate buying his first house. He found somewhere and had an offer accepted but they hadn’t found anywhere yet and were very picky, but like some of the people on here wanted to have theirs “sold” first to best position themselves to buy. But then four months later they still hadn’t been able to find so my brother walked away and bought something else.