The important thing is not to wait for the property to hit the portals (i.e. Rightmove etc). Yet research shows, nearly 5 out of 6 people who bought their home were not on the agents mailing list before they viewed the home they eventually bought. That’s OK in a normal property market as you can wait until it hits Rightmove, yet these are unprecedented times and if you are not on an agent’s mailing list – you will miss out on properties.
So, the question is should you put your home on the market first or wait for the right property to come along?
Roll the clock back a few years and it was standard practice for people to wait for their dream home to come onto the market, then put theirs on and hope that it would sell in time. This housing market is different and only those who are in a position to proceed (cash buyers or those sold subject to contract) will be considered as serious buyers.
Yet, nobody wants to be homeless if they do sell.
Forbes Estate agents are returning back to their old skills from the 1980s and 1990s by chain building. By starting at the bottom of the chain of the smaller house and building up a chain, waiting for everybody to find their next homes, nobody need be made homeless.
This is not an issue because most house sales are taking on average between 20 and 25 weeks and as long as everybody communicates with each other and everyone knows where they are, then normally things go through, albeit a little slower.
TIP – Like and follow our Forbes Estates Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ForbesEstateAgents/ to see our properties first, before they are listed to the general public on the property portals.
Best regards
Paul
