We’ve a house for sale the past month with an auctioneer in a lovely estate just outside Galway city.
house is in great condition and ready to be moved into immediately. Our house has a drive way which many others don’t also.
there are 4/5 houses for sale around same area, however whilst all these house have had bids, our house has had 1 viewing in 5 weeks. One of these houses has gone for €75,000 above asking price in 3 weeks since it first went up. There is bids everyday on the other houses as we’ve rang these estate agents to see what’s happening.
When we met auctioneers before choosing our one, a few expected the house to sell in 4/5 weeks. The house will sell itself attitude and the area.
Auctioneer has asking price €10 €15k more than other similar properties in the area. We are receiving half the viewings on daft than these other houses that went up at the same time 7000 v 3000 is one of many examples of viewing differences, we assume as a result of people filtering the price range. And our house is falling outside these brackets. Potential buyers actually have to place the filter €30,000 more to have our house appear as daft filters increase by €25,000 for each price filter.
does it look desperate if we ask auctioneer to put the house down the 10k 15k so we can at least get people viewing it online?
We believe the price isn’t attracting people in first place.
Low interest? Drop the asking price. It doesn't look desperate at all, I think the opposite is a worse optic (house sitting there for a long time on Daft, not selling and no price movement).
Doesn't necessarily mean you'll end up selling for less, but you will appear in more search results.
