Selling Property
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 3:35 pm
What a pain in the arse it is. Last time was pretty much 8 years ago so I've forgotten the frustration.
I've come to the dawning realisation that we are not like most house buyers. Given all the information available online, we know pretty damn well before we turn up for a viewing if we're going to like it or not and/or if it suits our requirements so our viewing to bid ratio must be something like 2 : 1.
Every time we have to deal with people viewing the number of "oh its not big enough" or "I need an extra bedroom" is ridiculous. Funnily enough floorplans tell you exactly how big somewhere is and why bother viewing somewhere if it has less than your minimum requirement number of bedrooms
I guess sometimes agents strong arm people into trying to see it, however, I think most of these are enquiries via the portals...
Typically we bought in what was then quite a buoyant market and are selling in the doldrums. Quelle surprise... however, the one positive is that we have actually had some viewings since it went on at the end of last week, which I wasn't taking for granted given Rachel from accounts has the proverbial sword of damacles hanging above every house buyer's head until the end of November. I suppose that doesn't count for much if they've all decided they need 4/5 bedrooms but can afford to pay for 3
I'd rather have people who are in some respects just dreaming and whose budget is 85-90% of asking because at least you can talk turkey on compromising in the middle and we can try and chip our seller to compensate. If the requirements are just totally different then what can you do
I've come to the dawning realisation that we are not like most house buyers. Given all the information available online, we know pretty damn well before we turn up for a viewing if we're going to like it or not and/or if it suits our requirements so our viewing to bid ratio must be something like 2 : 1.
Every time we have to deal with people viewing the number of "oh its not big enough" or "I need an extra bedroom" is ridiculous. Funnily enough floorplans tell you exactly how big somewhere is and why bother viewing somewhere if it has less than your minimum requirement number of bedrooms
I guess sometimes agents strong arm people into trying to see it, however, I think most of these are enquiries via the portals...Typically we bought in what was then quite a buoyant market and are selling in the doldrums. Quelle surprise... however, the one positive is that we have actually had some viewings since it went on at the end of last week, which I wasn't taking for granted given Rachel from accounts has the proverbial sword of damacles hanging above every house buyer's head until the end of November. I suppose that doesn't count for much if they've all decided they need 4/5 bedrooms but can afford to pay for 3
I'd rather have people who are in some respects just dreaming and whose budget is 85-90% of asking because at least you can talk turkey on compromising in the middle and we can try and chip our seller to compensate. If the requirements are just totally different then what can you do