Had my house (North Surrey) valued last week. Three agents, all agreed on the same value for the house (slightly lower than we had hoped for, but unsurprising as the market isn’t as buoyant as it used to be). We love our house (agents all agreed that it was well presented, doesn’t need anything doing it etc.) but want to move to area we really love. So, no real push factors and no massive urgency (i.e. we don’t have to move right now).
All three agents also said that because we want to move, rather than need to move, that we should wait rather than put it on the open market. Two said to go on their books and market to their database but not go online, to avoid a footprint if it doesn’t sell. The other said we’d be mad to market now at all and he’d advise waiting until September (especially as the area we want to move to is good to buy in over the winter).
I think we’re inclined to wait as we’d been wondering about timings due to the market right now - part of the reason for getting valuations was to understand this better but I was surprised that all the agents were so bearish. But I’d value other people’s opinions? Thank you!