Owning your own home

My flat was already on the market before the restrictions eased (the previous sale fell through during the lockdown). The EA relaunched it at a slightly reduced price, we got a couple of viewings as soon as the restrictions eased and they both made offers around asking price.

I'm seeing a lot of properties coming on to the market, a lot are new and quite a few that had previously been marked SSTC, at prices around the same as pre-lockdown so who knows what's happening.

Just handing the keys over and letting the EA have free reign sounds a good plan. On top of the places we requested to see we saw a few places as we were in the area, the agent had the keys and the property was vacant so we could just pop in.

Has anyone on here advertised/sold since the restrictions eased? Have you had any interest?

There's a lot going on. I think EAs are slammed with people desperate to move and a load of historical sales that are either grinding to halt, falling apart or chugging along painfully slowly whilst everyone tries to figure out what's going on - BUT those people who have sold / selling but not found a place to move to are properly fucked now because if you call an EA about a place on the market you are basically going in to the back of a queue.

Very hard to actually proceed with anything.

We’re going to put our place on the market in the next couple of weeks, and hoping to just hand keys to an EA, and leave it empty so they can come and go with viewings as they please. Does this sound wise?

This is what you should do.

I accepted an offer pre-lockdown but buyers pulled out as they had been made redundant.

Re-listed the week of the first lockdown easing. Lots of interest as measured by views but only one party offering.

Previous accepted offer was £X35, think we can negotiate this new party to £X25 which is where I think I would sell. Ask is £X50.

The flat is also empty so it’s nice to know that agents are going round checking no water / gas leaks.