carolinejones3

I can empathise with everyone (look back at some of my posts on this thread)

To the OP who's house has been on the market 2 years. Our house was also! But we have excepted an offer and all is progressing smoothly. Our house was originally over the 300k mark, we had plenty of views, some offers (they could not sell theirs) We dropped to under 300K. However we have not made a loss, in fact a good profit and we thank our lucky stars! I really hope you sell soon and get a good buyer regardless of the government situation!

I found the house sale more stressful than waiting for the visa! Anyway, good luck to all, its not a nice situation to be in.
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myrtle1

Well done to everyone who is having good news with their house sales/offers Just wondered what people generally do when their contract with the current agent expires - do you renew or look elsewhere? We're generally happy with our agents but everything seems to have gone very quiet just now! We are up against a time-scale as we fly on the 30th June and agreed all along that we would let if the house didn't sell. (but we would prefer to sell) Is it worth changing agents - is this likely to get us more interest or do people generally scour all the agents in the area anyway?

Griffangus

We found that the "threat" of moving to another agent earned us a gold plated service for a few weeks in which time we had two offers on the same day and it came down to who had the bigger deposit ....

No harm in telling them that you are disappointed with the lack of activity and are planning to go elsewhere and see what it does....at least use it as a way to lower their rate!!

All the best.

Lymm Mover

Thanks, we moaned since day 2 it was on the market, so if it makes you feel better carry on whinging.

The thing that makes us laugh is the fact that our 16 house estate took less than a year to sell, but to one (ours) it has been 2 years an counting. Saying that, it only takes one person to buy any house - fingers crossed for us all.

Alfresco

HIPS scrapped by the UK Government

For those who will be putting your house on the market soon.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/p...overnment.html

We paid £250 for ours.

JAK

Just saw that on the news. We had to pay for that too, damn waste of money. Might think about changing EA now though as we don't have to fork out for another one

Alfresco

Was it agent specific? I thought it belonged to the to seller no matter where it came from.

JAK

As far as I was aware as long as you stayed with the same agent you were ok, but if you changed agents you had to renew it after a year.

australianinleicester

A few years ago I heard one tactic after the house had been on the market for a while was to raise the price, maybe it motivated the fence sitters to put in an offer before it went up again

collybabe24

Hey guys well house is finally on the market, we have had 10 viewings so far so fingers crossed, hubby's employer in oz has been e-mailing us asking when we are returning, i feel he is getting a little restless which is only fair as he has kept his job open since august, so we have decided just to go for it and if house doesnt sell in time then we will just get a small loan to tied us by for now as we werent planning on exchanging a lot from house sale as the exchange rate is so bad. Been ringing round for removal quotes and are hoping to ship in the next 6 weeks, good luck to everyone else, will attach pics of house which hubby has done all by himself.

myrtle1

Wow - he has been busy Can you send him round to ours?? It seems you're in a similar situation to us. We were a week away from exchange though and our buyers pulled the plug! We've been back on the market for 3 weeks but no decent offers or people in a position to proceed as yet! But we always decided we were gonna just go as we felt we didn't want to have our Australia dream on hold any longer! Flights are booked for June 30th (yay) and we are going regardless! We will continue to try to sell from Australia and then if all else fails, we will let it out (but seriously hoping that won't be necessary!) Good luck to you - hope you get that elusive speedy sale

collybabe24

Oh wow hope everything works out, will u still be paying ur mortgage from oz? i wasnt sure what we could do whether you can take a break from repayments etc, when we moved in 2007 we just had to rent it out as there was no way of affording the mortgage but after having tenants trash house i wont be making that mistake again so will just have to hold out till it sells. good luck too

myrtle1

Some mortgages will let you take a "payment holiday" but not ours - typical!! We have all been working extra hours etc to try and boost our funds and we have decided we can do it for a couple of months. I am ok with it until I remember that we are paying for house here and rental in Oz but it's either that or we'll never get there. We are hoping the house will go quite soon as interest has been peaking a little and we just don't want to rent the place out. But we'll just see! Fingers crossed for you too

Alfresco

Good luck you two.

The couple that made an offer on our house wanted to move in on 1st July. No way could it be done and would have cost us loads of money, so that fell through.

Since then it's been quiet. Probably going to lower our asking price now (today).

Hoolio1972

sod it, we've rented our house for 2yrs and booked flights for Sept!