Unreasonable worrying about home selling

[andrewducker]

We're on a deadline. Not a _specific_ deadline, but we've basically said "We're buying your house, as soon as our flat sells." And nobody expects it to happen in the first week, but they do expect it to happen in a reasonable amount of time.

I say "Nobody expected it to happen in the first week", but 5 people saw it last weekend and four of them were positive about it. One of them was really really positive about it. To the point of asking whether we were up for them making an offer (to which I said "of course").

And yet there have been no offers. And no notes of interest. And while I didn't expect it to sell instantly, I now have no idea what to expect. Because if people can be that visibly excited while looking at the flat, and not actually decide they want it, then I have no idea how excited someone actually needs to be to go for it.

I don't think we've priced it out of the market. It looks reasonably similar to others in its price bracket. I think we're just going to have to wait for things to happen.

But I do wish it didn't lead to me waking up at 6am stressing about it.

Comments

[andrewducker]

That makes sense.

I do wonder what was happening with the people who seemed so excited that they asked me if I'd accept an offer!

[aldabra]

I'm looking for a house at the moment (landlord has died), and I've done that on a couple of houses which I've had second thoughts about later. One was a very nice building with lousy air quality and the other was clearly a short term let by shysters but I didn't work that out until I looked up the planning permission.

By introspection, what I'm doing is starting looking, or nudging up a price bracket, and finding a house which doesn't have the problem the previous houses have had, and being delighted that such a house exists, and then realising that it's the first one I've looked at that's that expensive, or that far out, or that inconvenient in some other way, and so the ones I'm comparing it to aren't in fact comparable. There's one I saw last week which might work if the landlord let us move his washing machine into the outside loo, but it's in an inconvenient suburb and if I'm going to compromise on the suburb it'd be worth looking to see if there's anything else there where I wouldn't have to do that. (Also it's the same agency as the shysters and so I don't trust them any more.)

And, there's just me. You might get a couple where one of them thinks this is obviously The Flat and the other vetoes it. They might not have that conversation in public.

[andrewducker]

Cheers, that's useful!