This morning we went to see a nice man about selling our house. He came up with a valuation and now we have a ball park figure on which to base our thoughts. He was very professional and pleasant.
I really don’t need to see any data about the evolution of house prices 2020-2023. Nor what the average price per square metres is for half a dozen sales in the ‘hood.
It seems that an average with wide error bars has no physical meaning… there is too much variance in housing type to collate them all together.
Am I being too self-important here?
Will people really base their offers and arguments on such a tiny data set?
Perhaps…
He intimated that it was likely that people would argue the toss for every euro, trying to argue for a reduction in price because they might need to change the colour of the door.
He said that in the current market it was important to hang on to a buyer…
The thought of engaging in someone seeking to haggle and niggle like that {ad infinitum} is not attractive. That heads up / pre-warning is a reason not to put the house on the market.
Can I really be arsed with all of that?
It will be a ball ache and a hassle. This was the prediction I left with.
There is no way that you can convey that you do not need a sales pack with largely irrelevant detail to support a valuation. To say that a valuation number is all I need is not something which can be accepted or understood. I do not need justifications or reasons…
The meeting could have been five to ten minutes.
The customs and ways here are different. There are formalities and ways of doing…
The one thing crystal clear to come out of the meeting is that to envisage two “in France” house sales and purchases before death is stupid. Each sale incurs a capital loss and with no sustained house price growth there is no net gain to offset this.
We did not come out of the office going, “gee let’s put the house up for sale…”
That type of comparison mind thinking where there is no true comparison gives a bit of a headache.
The governmental data at INSEE suggests that house sale frequency is ever so slightly increasing suggesting a tiny market uptick. The change in trend thanks to Benjamin Nosferatu and Trump bombing the fuck out of Iran has not yet been added to the data.
The push to move stems from knowing that the work level is becoming unmanageable and the desire for a change in scenery is growing. There is no strong pull yet.
The beginning of a pull back to Blighty might be in the loss of capital mentioned above… House exchange there is not so prohibitively expensive. Not exactly a heart driven pull.
I had a look at houses near Glastonbury this morning. Far out we can be near the ley lines…
Am I really being self important?
Should I just suck it up?
I find myself sighing more than a little…
Dreamyoga 