Anyone else finding it difficult to sell a larger family home?

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Pickleandwhizz · 11/06/2026 13:55

Anyone struggling to sell their home, ok we have only been on a month and ive not moved for the last 15yrs. We are trying to downsize, we have a 5 bed detached in its own plot with double garage, brand new kitchen and boiler only fitted few days ago, log burner, its a 1980,s home so all the rooms are large, ive parking for 8 cars. Its was initially on for 425 but we reduced to 410, we are happy to take 395 for it but people who come love it yet they cant afford it, they want it for 375 but if i sold for that we couldnt buy what we want. Estate agents are saying people want something for nothing and its because they cant get a mortgage. Anyone else trying to sell?

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KeepPumping · 16/06/2026 22:17

Pange79 · 16/06/2026 17:23

This is true - but the percentage of parents who can help out with massive deposits / bypassing inheritance etc relies on those same parents having made equity gains, not having massive mortgages and not needing the money for retirement. There may be plenty of boomers in that category but perhaps less gen X, and certainly less millennials. Where you live seems to be potentially an exception. Transaction volumes have collapsed - last land registry data for Jan shows around 46000 sales (is there more recent reliable data?). The last time it was below this excluding covid and stamp changes in April last year, was Feb 2011. There are simply less and less people who can afford prices at today's levels and today's interest rates. Also houses staying same in nominal terms is a drop in real terms.

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Wow, that is a big drop, there used to be a poster on MSE who would chunter on about 100,000 sales every month, 100,000 people getting on with their lives etc.etc. as if price and cost of debt didn"t mean a thing.

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