Defensive offer, or have house prices become so expensive?

No. I want to sell at the highest possible price. Why the hell should I limit the pool of buyers by only hanging up, for example, a note at the daycare center and bus stops? Makes no sense.

I find both legitimate. Maybe you don’t want to push every snob on your future former neighbors there is. Or you simply have other immaterial priorities (no people who eat guinea pigs). Just as anyone is allowed to try to maximize their selling price and then call down the flood. Whether a lot of traffic or rather a targeted approach promises more success is, by the way, also the discussion in every online marketing sales...

In Kati's background, consideration for current neighbors is probably rather low on the priority list ;)

I find both legitimate. Maybe you don't want to impose every snob out there on your future former neighbors. Or you might simply have other immaterial priorities (no people who eat guinea pigs).

With enough options, you can achieve both: a good price and nice families with children who fit well into the street. But you also have to keep in mind that during the time a house is online, a lot of "What's your final price?" clientele drive by and scrutinize everything closely. Therefore, I can well understand if a house is not meant to be listed online for long. And yes, even if you don't explicitly provide the address, people find the houses. I myself have often tracked down houses on satellite images and driven over.

No, you get 50 or more inquiries per day. Despite outrageously high prices. Of those, you call the 15 best and invite half of them again. That's how my former neighbor experienced it and everyone else from whom I wanted to buy.

Exactly. And the same applies to all 50 as to the first twelve to fifteen – sixty are basically four or five.

No. I want to sell at the highest possible price. Why the hell should I limit the buyer circle by, for example, only posting a note in the daycare and at bus stops? That makes no sense.

That's not how I proceed either, nor do I recommend it. With the fine distinction that I only advise those people for whom a highest possible fair price "is enough."

So if you already essentially shanghai my post, please note that it referred to the search for a new property - not to the sale of their existing house.

Exactly, portals are basically just clearance markets, like over-30 discos for houses, so to speak.

What nonsense, I would never sell my house within the known circle. Likewise, I wouldn't broadcast it in front of the daycare. If I sell something, then to strangers. No desire to be accountable or provide assistance to anyone after x years. That's how I did it with my first condominium, and it will be the same with the house I did a lot of work on myself.