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Dramatic_Hammer
I could do with some advice on selling...
1. We've had our house on the market for 4 weeks (Hackney) and in that time had 5/6 viewings. This seems low to me but I don't know if it's the time of year/price bracket/etc.
2. All the feedback from the agent has been that the people viewing like the inside but the location is wrong (on 'main' road, next to A12, noisy garden). This doesn't seem hugely constructive, as they valued it based on the location and we can't change any of those things.
  I am wondering if we should have chosen an agent closer to us (they're based in shoreditch, we're on the other side of Hackney) but I naively assumed it wouldn't matter in the age of rightmove/etc and they seemed quite pro.
3. It's listed as two-bed but it could be listed as three-bed.
  Better to disappoint with a tiny third bedroom or just not get into search results in the first place?
4. We've caught some of the chat on our Canary - one agent in particular seems pretty clueless and almost negative. Tempted to print out a sheet of answers/explanations for him so he stops making shit up then getting mixed up. Also tempted just to change agent but unsure of changing things over Christmas.
???
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Hefty in reply to @Dramatic_Hammer

All the feedback from the agent has been that the people viewing like the inside but the location is wrong (on 'main' road, next to A12, noisy garden). This doesn't seem hugely constructive, as they valued it based on the location and we can't change any of those things.

One way of interpreting this is that to make this judgment they must have seen other comparable houses that aren't noisy at about the same money, so maybe the agent didn't consider this compromise enough in the price.

Take it off the market now.

Relaunch it in the new year with a new agent as a 3 bed and try to find one who will use someone decent to show people round.

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Dramatic_Hammer in reply to @Hefty

That's a fair point but I'm just not sure there's that much comparable around at least in this price bracket - one viewer had another 30% budget (cash) and another wanted to be in London Fields, which appears to be at least 40% more expensive than here, which makes me think it's the wrong people viewing. Will double check our current contract and speak to some agents tomorrow though.

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