14/06/2026
The world feels like hard work right now.
The news is thoroughly depressing, everything seems expensive, the weather can't decide whether summer has started or not, and if your house is currently on the market you're probably dealing with more moving parts than you ever expected.
Trying to move house can sometimes feel like floating out at sea with very little control over where you're heading.
You don't know when the right buyer will appear.
You don't know whether the house you want will still be available when you're finally in a position to offer.
And even when you've agreed a sale, there's the minefield of surveys, mortgages, solicitors, searches, chains and timescales to navigate.
Welcome to my world!
But if you then add children, work, pets and a busy household into the mix, viewings can easily become the biggest source of stress.
Trying to keep a house permanently tidy, rushing around before every viewing, loading everyone into the car at short notice, only for a buyer to spend three minutes looking around before deciding the third bedroom isn't quite big enough... it can be enough to make you want to scream.
I was speaking to a seller this week about exactly this.
In the conversation I joked that my job is probably 50% houses and 50% therapy. But I did offer them one piece of advice that I think can make a real difference.
Speak to your agent and agree specific viewing windows.
Perhaps Wednesday & Thursday during school hours.
Maybe Saturday mornings when the children are at clubs.
Whatever works best for your household.
Because if buyers are requesting appointments every day of the week, at every hour imaginable, it can quickly feel like your home is a tourist attraction and its exhausting.
Having agreed viewing windows won't stop people viewing your property if they really want to. What it often does is make the whole process feel far more manageable.
And that's important because moving house comes with enough uncertainty already.
So if there's an opportunity to create a little more structure and a little more control, take it.
Because your home should still feel like YOUR home while it's on the market.