Strategy for selling a house - what is the best way to proceed?

I have lost track. Did you mention a price or not?

We advertised in the newspaper without a price but sent an information document to our interested parties with lots of details about the house, more photos, etc., and in that I included a passage about the price where I wrote that we had thought a lot about the price, talked to realtors, observed the market for a long time, and also looked at comparable properties from previous years and at what prices they sold. And that we then priced our property in line with market developments and would be willing to negotiate between 500-540k. However, I have already received various signals that they do not want to negotiate at all.

If the price is asked about during viewings, my sentence would be, please make an offer, I expect a 5 at the front, but with the demand I am counting on a 6. Then the house was seen and everyone decides for themselves.

I thought I had seen it with a specific price on the internet. If not, I find the proposal from Nida very good!

I have another (much better) suggestion. You make a gaming show like Takeshi's Castle involving your entire neighborhood. With the fees from the marketing rights, you will earn millions.

But generally, I am slowly wondering how we will come to a decision. If we had several commitments now, we would like to take the party with the highest certainty to the notary, to avoid the financing falling through. I also have a viewing who claims they don’t need any bank at all. o_O How do you prove that? Do you require a bank statement or something?

As I have written before, that is not within your sphere of influence and you can also not care about it. The interested parties will be lining up, this has not changed yesterday. Good properties are rare. The buyer should order the notary; if it falls through, that was their pleasure. Arrange that a notary is commissioned within 7 days. Ideally, the house is sold after 3-4 weeks in total. If it falls through, take a backup bidder and start the fun again.

But I have already received several signals that they don’t want to negotiate at all.

About seven or eight years ago, we viewed a property. Since we had lingered too long before, we were already familiar with the game ... but the sellers were not. We were the very first interested parties, had the very first viewing and agreed immediately without negotiating. The owners were quite baffled and gave "us young greenhorns" the advice to sleep on it over the weekend. When I called after the weekend, I was told the house was already gone. Someone else had brought €10,000 as a guest gift on the same day.

This whole discussion against bidding procedures is, to put it mildly, nonsense. Which ordinary person can do without five-figure amounts? There will be a bidding procedure anyway, whether you want it or not, because the market makes it so. The buyers’ side will sort it out. The only question then is whether you go to round 2 and push it to the limit or just leave it at a "higher bid." Reality will show ...

I have another (much better) suggestion. You make a gaming show like Takeshi's Castle involving your entire neighborhood. With the fees from the marketing rights, you'll make millions.

Haha, okay, that's an idea too. My husband already suggested we should set up the Bares für Rares room, and if several parties agree, we'll stand on the carpet there with a photo of the house and let them bid. :P Otherwise, of course, you're right, we have nothing to give away. But we'll see. I'm still afraid that everyone will come to view it and then say "nah, we don't want that." My husband thinks that's nonsense. Of course, I don't know how high the rate is of those who actually agree to buy after viewing. We sent them plenty of pictures, and nothing on them was sugarcoated (at most a bit more emptied out than in reality – because it's about the property and not our furnishing style). But who knows? Maybe some just want to have a look. Well, as 11ant said so nicely: in the end, we only need one buyer.