Whats the best way to sell my property ?
I have now obtained planning consent to nearly double it in size thus creating a status house circa 7,500 sqft inc gym, pool, games room, penthouse bedrooms with balconies, sea, downland, village & garden views and based in Rottingdean Brighton, East Sussex.

Mr E G Barrett, BRIGHTON, UK

A 40% drop in prices might move the properties- if the buyer can get a mortgage.

Kara Swart, London, UK

Had my 3 bedroom semi in South Lanarkshire on the market for 5 months, 2 different estate agents, £10.500.00 cheaper and still can,t get a buyer. Were am I going wrong? Its 10 months old and in walkin condition.

Liz Garnett, Blackwood, uk

i agree with Hugh, at the end of the if your house has stayed on the market for 2 years unsold then either you are greedy or just pretending you want to sell,either way iam not so desperate to pay over the odds.

fiona, leeds,

jayne essex uk : How much do you want for your home? And yes, we really are a no-chain.

Pat, FL, USA,

Jane: I am an estate agent and we have saying: Buyers are liars. It is so often what the buyer tells us that makes us look bad such as "I am a cash buyer". Sadly we have no choice but to believe what they tell us. You shoud ask for proof of funds to be shown soon after agreeing a "cash" purchse. Mostly we are a hard working and surprisingly honest bunch. we get a bad rap for often no fault of ours!

Matthew Smith, London, UK

Tanya:

'very competitive price'

clearly not, as no-one's interested.*

*the price of your property can go down, as well as up. the value of your property is what people are prepared to pay for it, not what you like to think its worth inside your head.

Hugh, London,

I'm trying to sell my house in Bedfordshire and have put it on at a very competitive price. However, people are getting put off because groups of kids and teenagers hang around the area - we've already had a number of viewings cancelled and a no show because of this and it's really getting me down - most of the kids do no harm but they've been tarnished with the 'hoodie' brush and people aren't bothering to find out if we've had any problems. 50% of the viewings we have had didn't like the house's 'position' in the village (near a BP Garage).

My Estate agents aren't much help - they don't know how to handle the objections raised in relation to this isue so we're missing out on prospective buyers, plus the market has really slowed down in the last 2 months so we're not getting enough interest in the first place.

Tanya, Toddington, Bedfordshire

Forget agents, do it yourself. That way you only have your own interest at heart not an estate agent's commision. Just sold my property myself online on a new website brightproperty.co.uk Will do the diy approach again if i need to, it was easier than i thought.

We all book holidays online today so why not sell our houses! I just about to book my week in the sun with the money i have just saved!

andy waugh, braintree, essex

So James (below), if buy to let is banned, who will people rent from?

Andrew, London, UK

I believe the problem is estate agents and their lack of dealing with each property as and individual home. I have had my property on the market for 6 months and had two buyers who estate agents told me were cash buyers, when it came to exchange of contracts 'chains' were discovered by my solcitor and the proposed purchasers did not have the money. I was assured by estate agents that the purchasers wanted to move in within 6 weeks, dropped the price of the house and packed everything away. I am now living surrounded by boxes having had the last sale fall through two days ago because I was lied to by the estate agent who told me they were cash buyers.

jayne, essex, uk

Ban Buy to Let Buying,, Those people are strangling the country for their own selfish aims, where is the future in that??

James, london,

Don't buy or rent an house on a council housing association estate you may end up living next to a drug dealer and have a job to get rid of them. Housing Associations don't really care.
Check out the neighbours, if the area is run down don't move in if its cheep.
Renting does not mean you can move away easily, don't go for the first one you see, look around.

Peter, Bexhill, UK

Houses just aren't shifting in England and Wales at the moment, fact!

L Perry, Newport,

i think that was sarcasm

sara, manchester,

What a house that won't sell!! This can't be true....for every house there's at least 1000 buyers; with 100s more pouring across the Channel every day. Drop the price, pure madness!! Don't lower the price, raise it for God's sake!!!

Percy, London ,

Why don't you just admit it? We've had the boom, now comes the bust.

Darren, Plymouth,