Just not getting any viewings whatsoever! Dropped the price twice and now in a position where we will be selling our property at a loss - and this in a rising market. Drastic action needed so we have changed agents and are starting off next week with a new one. Just need to get a few people looking around....where are Phil and Kirsty when you need them!

 

 

 

Regards

 

Frustrated of Sawbridgeworth.

 

 

What are we to do? We now are selling a bargain property, we've tidied the house for the umpteenth time for the umpteenth number of days, and still visits are as frequent as Halley's Comet. Perhaps someone has daubed a red cross on our front door without our knowing.

 

Anyway to cap off this success, a planning application for a chip shop two doors down has reared it's ugly head again. Nothing more pleasant than lying in bed at night, the room bathed in the bright glow of 'Chippy Signage' and the open window letting the waft of chips and fat permeate throughout the house. I hope potential viewers take such a positive view and appreciate the wonderful benefit of having access to fast food every night of the week. If they're lucky they may not have to leave the house, they'll be able to shout their order out the window...

 

 

Welcome to the depressing side of house moving. We've now sliced £25k off the asking price of our house in the last three week. Let me put that to you in real terms. That is the equivalent to receiving a copy of the Sunday Times for free for the next 240 years, 3 1/2  bottles of Delord Freres Armagnac 1848 (70cl), approximately 10 round the world tickets or 20 'G' reg Robin Reliants....so as you can see we're feeling pretty unhappy (although i don't care very much for the Armagnac at £7,750 a bottle).

 

So then, we wait, as we have done for the last two months. Two months, two viewings - all that tidying around for just two viewings. I'm hoping that now we've dropped into a new price range people will be forming orderly queues outside to view. Surely it's that easy isn't it?

 

Meanwhile in Brighton I expect all those agents we registered with and showed initial enthusiasm with have either have or dropped us down to 'automated emails only' category or worse still be deleted us from their files altogether. That said I do get one young lady who religiously calls me each week recommending an entirely inapporpiate property due to it's a) wrong location b) lack of bedroomsc) no outside space....or on special occasions all three.

 

So we're at an impasse. My house price goes down while those in Brighton go up. By the time we compete we could well end up only being able to rent a static caravan in nearby Shoreham.

Well as the market continues to fly onwards and upwards in Brighton, I'm having to knock £10,000 of the price of my place to get people interested. Haven't had a sausage (metaphorically speaking) round in the last three weeks...with all these Bank Holidays coming up there has to be some action. I've tried to consider ways of attracting attention...

 

1. Front Page advert on in the Times (1/4 page) approx £25,000 - costly

2. Burn down all other houses in my village to increase demand for ours - probable prison sentence and would require stealth tactics that  I simply don't think I have.

3. Stick a '50% Off Bank Holiday Offer' banner across the front of my house - effective, costly and stupid

4. Optimise all internet search results to point to my blog - costly

 

So, realistically our options are limited. I think I'll give my Estate Agent another week or so and then look at one of others in my village. The problem is being such a small village I expect all those potential buyers registerd with my agent will be registered with the others too - is there any point? I just don't know....stuff it, I'm off to buy some matches.