whisky

Don't forget to let us know how it all goes.

Whisky

booboo1

selling sucks, that,s for sure. A veiwer we had said he,d already seen 19 4 bed detached houses and can,t remember what he has seen.
The 4 beds around in mk are quite stagnant. Some people are dropping their prices so low and are still not able to shift the property. I just keep saying it will happen, it will happen but there is so much competition . The 2 and 3 beds are going pretty quick. Ive been convincing hubby for 14 years to move to Aus and now he has said yes the blinking houses selling is now holding me up.

BooBoo (fed up)

tinaj

Much the same around here. Everyone seems to be selling up and cashing in on heir equity by moving further out of London or abroad!
Tpo end of the market here is asleep and with 4 similar houses for sale down one road it is anyones guess how long they will take to sell.

I am so desperate I have just been outside in the dark and have hammered the 'for sale' board into the ground. We decided not to have one, but have finally relented. I didn't want people from my work-which is just down the road- asking questions.

My neighbours probably think I am potty now! Probably glad that I am leaving.

Loopy

Reading this brings back unhappy memories. We were in the same position, had the visas but couldn't sell the house. It took about 9 months in the end, with two sales falling through, definetly the worst part of the emigration process.
We kept telling ourselves it would happen eventually but we did begin to give up hope and in the end dropped our price by about 7 thousand pounds (felt bad at the time but was worth it!).

BUT it DID happen eventually. We had flights booked to validate our visas and had a mad panic at the end, exchanged contracts just before we left and completed once we were here.

It is worth it and it will happen eventually, hang on in there and good luck to all of you trying to sell

Loopy

(Booboo, we were in Aylesbury so not too far away!)

pommie bastard

Immo's who have no idea how to sell a house should do well here , why do I get the feeling this country is letting in the worst kind of refugee.

Megalania

Perhaps you read your own posts too often.

pommie bastard

Case proved I got in far too easy so the door is open for all.

:scared:

Megalania

Close it behind you on your way out.

pommie bastard

Looking at the dross coming though it I would complain to little Johnny , no country should have to import rubbish when it so much of its own.

Megalania

You concern for the litter problem in the UK is touching. Just threatening then?

pommie bastard

Would it be better to have illegal refugees than the legal ones ?

Megalania

You are illegal or illegitimate or both?

Florida_03

Sorry gone dim...can use it in a sentence?

southerner

Whisky,

I'll have a go at replying to this..I like a challenge.

Maybe your house is overpriced.
Maybe it is not what people want.
Maybe it is not presented well enough.

Am I being harsh??

There are many reasons why houses don't sell quickly. In the market we are in at the moment, you cannot get away with what they have in the past few years (with the rising market). People are looking to pay a fair price, and it is a buyers market at the moment.

That said, many sellers on this site have sold their house in a short period for close to the asking price. My wife and I are in this category. We are lucky in that we have a very in demand location, and we also spent a long time getting the house ready for sale and determining what was a fair asking price.

Hope I don't come acroiss as smug and unhelpful, but a reality check might be useful here. You cannot change the house selling process in the next 6 weeks, nor can you change general buyers behaviour.

But you can a) look at the price, and b) look at whether the house could be presented differently. I always watch the House Doctor and other programmes of that nature, and you can always make a house more sellable (no matter that it might not be what you personally would want to live in).

All the best - I hope something happens for you soon!

Jolyn

We did everything possible to get our house ready for sale. Spent £4K on repainting, new accessories and curtains, etc. Lots of viewings, most of whom loved it but only one offer after 3 weeks (long time for London) - £20K below asking price. Plenty of houses in our suburb have been on the market for 6 months or more with no offers so we were lucky to get that. That's after dropping the price 10% below last summer's selling prices. Many buyers are waiting around to see if prices drop further it seems.

Have now waited 3 months to get the sale through with chain. Area is too pricey these days to expect first time buyers for a 4 bed 3 storey house.

We've put the house back on the market today! Just had the handyman round to fix the few things toddler has trashed since his last month long stint of repainting etc in April. Hopefully a wonderful new buyer will arrive or our old one will get a move on.

It's my birthday and I'm fed up. Never want to buy or sell a house in the UK again. I don't care if in Oz buyers can pull out after 7 days - it's 3 months I can't stand. And no more sodding chains...

Enough moaning - we'll get there soon and best wishes to all of you to get there too.