If you unlist and relist with the same agent within 3 months Rightmove will treat your house as if you never took it off the market.
It took us nearly 20 months to sell our house, not even offers that fell through. We came off once, relatively early on, because we were changing agents, but hung in.
Nowadays when people are checking Rightmove daily, they notice if a house comes off the market and then comes back on again amonth or two later. We noticed this happening a lot. Some houses did it three or four times. Sometimes they had dropped the price, sometimes not.
The housing market is in the doldrums. House builders have built fewer houses this year than they have for years. the government promise to build 1.5 million houses has gone to hell in a handbasket. Most of these houses were to be in the home owner market and the buyers are just not there. It is exactly the same in the resale market.
Until the economy picks up and the future looks more cetain, the housing market will be poor. You are the victim of circumstances and there is nothing you can do about it. We got their in the end. the house we bought had been on the market even longer than ours and had had 2 sales fall through.
and has been for the last two years. It is nothing to do with whether houses are 'new on the market', or whether prices are too high. The only thing that will make things better is a more certain secure and hopeful future.
