Meeting buyers at a second viewing?

[trickyex]

I have sold my victorian house STC to cash buyers who are keen to move in.
I will be downsizing and have quite a bit of stuff which I wont need and have offered the buyers first refusal before I sell it. Some is quite specific to the house - eg MTM curtains, collectible antiques/mirrors etc which fit the space etc.

I have suggested they come round so they have the chance to see the house again (only viewed once before offering) and look at the things in question,
They want my agent to come with them. I feel a bit uneasy about this, would it be odd to suggest they come with the agent while I am not in?

They are keen for me to move into rented as I am finding it hard to find anywhere as the market here is slow, so I feel a bit pressurised. They are renting themselves very nearby and am unsure I want to meet them in these circumstances and subsequently find myself bumping into them at the local shops/pub!

WWYD?

I don’t understand your issue! It’s your agent why not have them there. At least you’ll have a witness to whatever they agree to purchase.

They can be as keen as they like, but until you get to the point of exchanging contract you don’t have to agree a date for moving out. Take a breathe OP you are in control not them.

So you'd prefer your EA dealt with this without your presence @trickyex?

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, under the circumstances, for you to not want to meet with them yourself.

Although, when we were in a similar position a few years back (selling our large family home to buy somewhere smaller, offered some of our antiques/light fittings etc to our buyer), we chose to meet them ourselves to discuss details of the items in question as we felt our EA might mess up! I did insist my OH was there too as there a rather specific (outing) reason for why I didn't want to meet the buyer alone.

All went ok and they purchased a few thousand £££ of stuff which we were delighted with. Good luck with your sale/move!

Our EA showed the buyers round, then they asked to come again (after accepted offer) with their children. We were there and showed them round, opened wardrobes, explained the heating system, let the man go up in the loft and, like you, offered some furniture.

Thanks very much for the replies.
Am a bit unsure as I might feel more under pressure if there are three of them coming here who all want me to rent, even though we are meeting to look at stuff.
And also bit weird about meeting them and then seeing them around locally afterwards. Just feels a bit awkward.

@LibertyLily can I ask how you priced your nicer things to sell?
I have some quite high end things, antique furniture and mirrors which are worth a bit of money (valued verbally by dealers and a local auction house), collected over many years. Also handmade curtains which were very costly.

I am worried they will think I am grabby but equally don't want to ask for too little.

I presume the 'hand made curtains' would have been made to measure ? Therefore they are unlikely to have much '2nd hand' , or resale value. Just so you don't get your hope up.

We just left our made to measure blinds and curtains when we moved out. It seemed peevish to take them when they were of no use to us in the new house.

In terms of your other things, they want them at the price you set or they dont want them. Nothing awkward about that. Just be prepared for them wanting to haggle a bit. Its human nature to want a bargain.

Write a list of all the items which are to be sold and next to each item the price you want for it.

This means they can see if they want/afford each item. Nothing to do with being grabby and if they don’t want or like them you can sell at auction.

@CarpetKnees yes they are made to measure, windows are over 3m tall, one room has two sets as dual aspect, so an awful lot of fabric/lining/interlining.

I could re-use the fabric elsewhere or sell on via auction but seems sensible to offer to sell them to the buyers, no idea how much for though,

@trickyex We kind of plucked a figure out of the air and hoped for the best! Well, we had a reasonably good idea of the price we wanted as we did a lot of eBay/auction buying so knew what was too low/high a price to ask.

Also, the wife of our buyer was a former London antique dealer so they had their finger on the pulse too - in fact we wondered if they were only interested in our stuff with a view to moving it on. However, when they re-sold the house six years later our concerns were unfounded as the items they'd bought from us were in the EA photos.