We’ve been on the market for a month, which I know isn’t long on today’s market, but we’ve had 15 viewings and no offers.
Our property was originally valued at £850-£875k by 3 agents. We put it on for £850k. We dropped it to offers in excess of £800k on Monday. We have told the agent from the outset that we are very open to offers.
Our house has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, open plan kitchen/diner, 2-3 reception rooms, utility, garden and large drive plus small garage. Very well located for excellent schools, high street and train station. The house could probably do with decorating / new carpets but kitchen and bathrooms all done in last four years.
There have been quite a few similar properties to ours on the market but all sold, one a three bed on a much busier road which is 400 sq st smaller than ours, but much better finish, which was on for £850k and sold.
Another very similar decorative order to ours, went on same day, slightly smaller and I think a worse location sold when it was on for offers over £875k.
Everything else up our road sells very quickly, the 2 most recent sales were on for £750k but they were 3 beds and 600-700 sq ft smaller than ours as we have done big extensions.
We are getting very little meaningful feedback from the agent - they just say the people liked it but want to keep looking.
One person has mentioned they wanted it to be in a better decorative order, but we are open to negotiation / offers so I figured people would just want to decorate to their taste… should we be taking it off the market and decorating ourselves?
For recent viewings I’ve also tried to declutter more, we have 2 small children so I’ve now started removing some of the toys from their rooms and downstairs to do this.
The viewings by the agent typically take 10-15mins (I can see on the ring doorbell). They always book them one after another, 15 mins apart. Some viewings are under 10 mins. I don’t even think you could look around the whole house never mind go in the garden and garage in under 10mins!
We are viewing lots of properties currently and typically take 20-30mins in all of them. The only one an agent rushed us round in 15mins because they had another viewing booked we left hating.
Am I being impatient or should I be considering changing agents?