Advice please on what to do next re selling my house

[OrmRenewed]

We've had 6 viewings in 3 weeks and 2 people who seriously considered making an offer. But didn't . Apparently 6 viewings is pretty good round here atm. But nowt for 2 weeks.

So question is what to do next to stimulate interest.

1 We have no for sale board - bearing in mind we live in a cul-de-sac it might not help much but is it worth giving it a go?

1. Drop the price. Couldn't drop it by much but enough for 'reduced price' to go on the front of the details and maybe catch someone's eye?

1. Change agents. Don't much want to do that as I think it's unfair to do that so soon but we might if essential.

Which if any would anyone advise please?

Hope so madrush. Fingers crossed.

Got a second viewing!

Cue mad dash cleaning and tidying and buying flowers. Man cleaning the carpets at 1 - hope they will be dry by 4...

brilliant

I just did a search to see how you were getting on

our house selling is not going so well and I'm really disheartened by the latest bit

hope it went well (assuming you meant it was at 4)

Thanks bronze.

Was a woman, her DD and her dad. Daughter and DD loved it, dad was a bit less carried away and he's the one buying it as she can't get a mortgage Added to which they want to move in asap.....which we can't manage unless we move out into rented. We'll see....

IS there anything on the market at the moment that you would like. they must realise that moving takes time anyway. Makes more sense for thm to rent really

Yes bronze there is. At least 2 houses that we really like and a few that we would be OK with. But even if we had an offer accepted it would be a while before we could actually move.

But totally moot atm anyway as no offer has been made to us as yet. Suspect I am counting my chickens

Men are always more poker faced IMO. Terrible generalisation but that's the way I've always found it

Good luck - hope it works out one way or another. The fact that you are getting near misses and second views shows that it must be pretty close to the spot - perhaps it just needs to find Mr/s Right.

Agent rang back. We're on a shortlist of 2. She's going to see another property tomorrow and will let us know after that.

I had told the agent to let her know that for the right offer we've be prepared to move out asap into rented if neccessary. That seemed to make an impression apparently.

problem is I'm not sure if you can get a short-term let - don't want to have to pay for 6m

We paid 6 months as we had a good buyer.It has given us time to look for somewhere and do a bit of work before we move in which I have found is cheaper in an empty house as the builders get A LOT more done!

That is true noddy. Not that we'll have much money left to do a lot of work Will have to be a bit tight with any offers though. Can't accept much below asking price.

If this viewing doesn't work out, what about a slight reduction in price coupled with an advertised open morning?

We are prepared to reduce the price a little but agent isn't sure it will help - lots f houses round here have done this and it made no difference. Market is just very very slow. Will ask about open day - last time I used an estate agent I remember they weren't keen on open days - can't remember why though. Do you have experience of them?

Hi Orm - I would get the photos redone. You don't really know if people are looking at the house details on the internet and being put off by the photos.

Good luck. Hope it sells for you.

Have never done one myself but our house is going on next week and all the agents we've spoken to have recommended it. I've said I'm not keen on a free for all though, so they've all said they would do set appointments, but all on the same day half an hour apart. One said his ideal is to have one couple just leaving as the others are pulling up outside as this generates a bit of interest!

And yes I agree about the photos. It can make a big difference. Have you got a floorplan?

We moved out of ours to make sure the chain didn't collapse. Ended up living in a hotel for 5 weeks with all out stuff in storage. Didn't work out any more expensive as we had no mortgage or bills to pay for the time.

We found there were snort terms let available and even looked at staying in a mobile home.

Was worth it to make sure we sold. Good luck with yours.

I think open days work really well when there are lots of people who may want to look around - seeing the potential competition face-to-face can make potential buyers get their act together faster and offer higher.

But I would think the problem with Orm's situation is that there just aren't enough potential buyers out there. If they can't get people through the door in the first week of sale, at a time and date of their own choosing, how are they going to drum up enough interest for a fixed open day which may be at an inconvenient time for many people?

And having one person wandering round by themselves would just be worse than useless. It will flag up the fact that the market is currently low.

No, as I said - I don't recommend a free for all. Set appointments - no need for anyone to know necessarily how many people are or are not interested. But it gives you an excuse if you like for the agent to flag your home up, by advertising or whatever - and if the market isn't great you need something to attract attention.

I feel your pain - we are trying to sell as well at the moment. In a really popular village, which usually carries a premium.
We have put the house on at 20K less than we actually wanted, to try to generate interest.

Agents say it is just really really slow at the moment - nothing moving here at all, at any price range.

They couldn't suggest what we should do - I don't think they are doing anything to promote it.

we have one interested couple, have offered 30,000 less than our asking price, so 50K less than we would ideally like!

AGH, it's depressing isnt it?

Aha! Just found the other house that she is going to look at tomorrow. Not nice at all! And in very dodgy neighbourhood. But 20k less than ours.

I am hoping the fact that there were there for nearly an hour and when I came back enforced trip to Costa with 3 DC (to get out of their way) they were still there and DH had come home and was chatting to them and the agent in the kitchen.

She can't like the other house better! She just can't....

Somebody give me a slap! I am getting too excited and it could still go tits up...

"Pull yourself together woman!"

Is that better?

I need a slap too - have massively under offered on a lovely but tired house that's right out of our budget, and secretly planning my kitchen even though I'm sure they'll reject our offer!

In that case I return your slap and raise you a kick in the ankle

We have another viewing on Saturday now as well and agent (lovely young man ) tells me he has been pushing our house for all he's worth.

we had an open day on saturday
spent all halfterm getting th eplace sorted
left with th ekids and dog so the agent could do the viewings. He said he had 3 definites lined up

Calle dhim on monday
noone
not one sodding person came and viewed it
I am so down about it

we had changed agents and dropped the price and now I'm incredibly demoralised. ds3 will have to sleep in the coat cupboard soon as I want my room back for me and dh

did she get back to you?

Oh bronze Sorry to hear that.

Just got a call from the agent. They've offered us 113k. Which is 5k less than the asking price and 2k less than the price we ewre hoping for. She has also said that if we don't accept she will buy the other house - no negotiation.

Agent reckons it's reasonable and we can make a similarly reduced offer on any other house - the one we want he reckons might accept 200k instead of 209. And he told me not to worry about the time pressures - they won't let us be pushed into moving before we are ready. She is a ftb so will have no chain behind her.

I have rung DH's school and left a message to ring me back.

Tempted to accept I must admit.