Currently buying/selling a house? How is it going? READ MOD NOTE POST #1

Any input in whether to list house before or after christmas (Jan) Market gone very quiet over Christmas period as expected (nobody wants the hassle of moving during christmas period).

Best to list before Christmas as people are off and making plans for new year.

We put a house up for sale 2nd week of January and it was one of only 4 properties in the area and went sale agreed in 2.5 weeks - still took 6 months to complete though with no chain and first time buyers. We noticed it was maybe March before more properties started coming to the market after that (so worked in our favour)

It definitely has. And is easy to measure. We just need to look at the last few sales in the estate. The ones that are going for 650k aren’t staged and have original bathrooms the ones going for 700k have been done up.

Many people are afraid to take on houses that need work as they think the costs will be crazy or else simply have no cash left after buying the house

who cares what they do when they move in. You need to make it attractive to them in the first place

If your actual budget is 800k, at what price point should you be looking at on myhome? Is it the 700k mark? Am looking in D6, D6W, D8, D12, D14.

I'm just trying to get a sense of where bidding and asking prices are at currently.

can anyone tell me what an executive listing is? Heard an estate agent say it yesterday for the first time… some sort of letting?

no definitely executive. It has rattled my brain since

she was hopefully getting an executive listing confirmation today, that’s all I have

I'd say they meant a premium ad or else that the ad would be handled by the advertising executive (i.e. the person who looks after ad listings).

100k under! Fantastic.

especially as we went 100k over in our own.
pricing is crazy.

Here’s an example. Listed for 945k. Current offer is 1.355M

I guess the lesson is if you are looking increase your budget I the search and look at how long properties have been listed for.

Planning retention and septic tank, (the vendor did genuinely consider all was in order but our solicitor was very thorough on all points)

Original price was a bit over €1M..

It’s a 1960s house in south Dublin. Needs some modernisation but nothing out of the ordinary

My house sale fell through as the purchaser did not have the funds and told our agent that their house sale was imminent when it was not. We went sale agreed 6 months ago and their house is still not sold so we took the advice of our solicitor to pull out as these buyers are messers. This situation has soured our relationship with our estate agent who wanted us to wait. We cannot afford to wait. We have to get a new agent as our present one is not communicating with us and we feel our house being on the market so long is damaging the reputation of it. The frustrating thing is that the house has 20,000 views but no one could view it as it was sale agreed all this time. Any advice on getting a new agent? I'm looking at big-name agents now but they are a lot more expensive than my previous local one. Do I have to pay the old agent when he did not / will not communicate with us and advised us to go with a buyer who was not reliable?

We had a similar case on our last move (a number of years ago) in that case it was our estate agent who said we should move on, knowing we needed to sell to move. Buyers seemed to get bad advice from their mortgage broker and then weren't organising a survey, went back on and sale agreed again with a couple of weeks at a higher price. Wishing you luck.