Stay on the market or take a break

Aren't we missing the point a bit here?

The OP has had viewings. The house has sold twice, there's nothing wrong with its condition or price. It's just unlucky the chain has fallen apart on both occasions.

So HDando, what have you decided to do?

I'm waiting to exchange on mine, hopefully this week. Personally I wouldn't take it off the market if I were you. I think most people know what's going on in the housing market, if they have any common sense. I'm in a situation where I can't find anything suitable because people are waiting until spring to put it on so there's not much out there.

Incidentally I had a frustrating conversation with a Vendor's Estate Agent yesterday who was trying to get me to increase my offer by £10k as the Sellers won't budge on the price at all despite me being chain free and a cash buyer. They've had no offers at all on theirs despite being on for about 6 months. I had to knock £45k off mine. Unfortunately I think some people are unrealistic about what they can get for their houses at the moment and unless you are prepared to budge on price you're not going to move any time soon

Cagsy

Some people I know put their house on the market as evidently anyone you want to buy from isn’t interested if you haven’t had an offer on yours. It wasn’t on for a week and they accepted an offer, now they REALLY have to find somewhere!

This is the problem, even in a bad market, some people will sell very quickly. Just the right buyer at the right time.

Though I still think that if a house is a pretty good one of itself and pretty good location and not overpriced it will go pretty quickly.

I've seen it years back in my homecity - of thinking "That very similar house is much more modernised than mine - it'll be gone in two seconds flat even though it's dearer". It went in 9 days and mine took 3 months.

I've seen it here right from the start in the town I'm in - a noticeable proportion of houses here are old-fashioned and/or illogical and/or in poor condition and I look at them for sale and think "You'll probably still be for sale this time next year" and, on the other hand, it's easy to spot the more normal ones (relatively modernised, nothing that much illogical in the way they are, etc) and they go within weeks - even in this slow-selling area.

Hence I felt quite safe to wait and wait for the house I bought here - having thought "Tatty little probate house.....old-fashioned....this is illogical....that is illogical" - but now I've ripped it apart = same house has got people hinting at interest should I ever change my mind and decide to sell and I'm even pretty certain who'd buy it in the event...

I think we'll leave it on the market. The bungalow we were hoping for has found somewhere she wants to buy so well probably loose it but if we do sell straightener Christmas that might save the situation