Selling a house seems to take forever nowadays.

[MontyVeda]

We have had one viewing in 7/8 week. Yesterday we learned we lost what my wife had described as ideal house in the right location. Personally I’m happy to take it off and wait until the market picks up.

I'm also wondering whether to rent ours out and rent something else in Cornwall.

I blame Donald T…… (joking obvs)

A few months ago it was mentioned on the radio that DT's war with Iran was effecting the housing market here. I guess due to increasing fuel prices, that makes everything get more costly and people are reluctant to invest.

I'm hoping to buy my first house this year (or early next), so I'm in a position where I want (need?) the market to stay on its arse until I've put a deposit down.

With regards to how long it might take between putting in an offer and completion, that's a bit sticky too since I'm waiting for my landlady to serve me an eviction notice (no fault) which will give me four months notice. I was expecting that in January but no sign of it yet.

 

[TheDoctor]

Been trying to sell DoctorTowers for a year now. It's very frustrating...

Tardis too small for buyers?

Heh-heh
To be serious, it's a 450 year old house with 4 beds, 3 bathrooms, a home office, 2 garages and parking for 4 cars.
And what does everyone say? "The ceilings are a bit too low" and / or "Oh, it needs some work doing".
Yes it does, That's why it's not somewhere north of a million.

 

[Webbo2]

Heh-heh
To be serious, it's a 450 year old house with 4 beds, 3 bathrooms, a home office, 2 garages and parking for 4 cars.
And what does everyone say? "The ceilings are a bit too low" and / or "Oh, it needs some work doing".
Yes it does, That's why it's not somewhere north of a million.

There are a couple of old farm houses for sale in our village in £450,000 range they need some serious money spent on them but they are never going to worth the cost of the renovations because the family’s have either kept the land or sold it off.
These are nice houses but they lack something to be your forever home.
Mainly a roof that doesn’t leak. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

 

[Drago]

Daughter #3 is currently px ing her house. The developers are trying to grift some money out by claiming there are some jobs that need doing one her existing house, and offering their builders to do it at my lasses expense.

Oh dear.

Daughter and her feller own their own building company, and had the work done in a morning for £600 instead of the 6 grand the developers were quoting. The developers weren't happy when they received the news that the work been done and they werent going to earn a penny, but its not my lasses fault the developers made themselves look like eejuts.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

Local market very quiet according to Estate Agents.

Cycling around locally it's new builds (being sold by developers) that are not selling. People selling the house they are living in seem to switch from For Sale to Sold in sensible timescales.

We seem to have a lot of small developments (<20 houses) but they invariably end-up 4/4+ bedroom prestige houses squeezed onto plots that are too small. It’s these that are staying on the market often longer than a year. To make it worse, the developers use the money from selling the first few houses to fund finishing the next few so the developments stay unfinished for years and those few who do buy get frustrated living around a stalled building site.

 

[Webbo2]

We are about to test the process as Mrs W has decided that we are going to move near to daughter dearest up in Fife. So come the end of the school holidays we will going on the market.