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house for sale and no viewings, any advice?

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  • thegirlintheattic
    thegirlintheattic Posts: 2,761 Forumite
    What is behind the property? It looks like wasteland/park.

    Living room looks a bit full - could you remove the coffee table and the sideboard to make it look bigger.

    Office looks odd - door looks too small. Is this just the angle of the photo?

    Bedrooms look very spacious.

    Bathroom looks small.

    Pictures of garages? I don't tend to read the description unless I'm very interested. Have a picture to promote the fact it has two garages. Ditto no photo of guest WC.
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  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,089 Forumite
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    No viewings = price.

    I have to say the grass in the garden looks a bit pointless. Either should be no lawn or much more lawn. However that won't be a show stopper to a potential buyer.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    tinkerbelle12 wrote: »
    Thanks AdrianC as I thought it would be the price, the last house sold on this street went for 192,500 but didn't have the garages and no other house on the street with garages.

    That newish detached has a garage. One of the semis has a gated drive.
  • tinkerbelle12
    tinkerbelle12 Posts: 24 Forumite
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    thegirlintheattic wrote: »
    What is behind the property? It looks like wasteland/park.

    It is a tram line.

    Living room looks a bit full - could you remove the coffee table and the sideboard to make it look bigger.

    Yes i agree

    Office looks odd - door looks too small. Is this just the angle of the photo?

    door is normal size

    Bedrooms look very spacious.

    Bathroom looks small.

    It is!

    Pictures of garages? I don't tend to read the description unless I'm very interested. Have a picture to promote the fact it has two garages. Ditto no photo of guest WC.

    Thanks for the great feedback
  • tinkerbelle12
    tinkerbelle12 Posts: 24 Forumite
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    some great feedback for me to work on, thanks everyone
  • Elfbert
    Elfbert Posts: 578 Forumite
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    I had just assumed that door into the office was some weird tiny cupboard or something! Looks very odd in the picture.

    I also hadn't realised you had more than one garage. Although street view does show someone parked right across them - in front of the 'no parking' sign. Perhaps not the best impression to give a buyer!

    The decorating isn't to my taste, but I can see past that. I think the bathroom is very small, and, to risk going on about it, with no floorplan you can't even plan to perhaps put one in somewhere/extend it somehow.

    I had my photos/floorplan done yesterday, and it's already online with rightmove etc. There's no excuse for them to be slow about it!
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  • tinkerbelle12
    tinkerbelle12 Posts: 24 Forumite
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    Elfbert wrote: »
    I also hadn't realised you had more than one garage. Although street view does show someone parked right across them - in front of the 'no parking' sign. Perhaps not the best impression to give a buyer!

    That would've been my son parking there, no else dare as my hubby would be at them lol

    I'll be on to the ea tomorrow about the floor plans

    Thanks
  • booksurr
    booksurr Posts: 3,700 Forumite
    edited 4 October 2016 at 11:13PM
    bog standard 2 up 2 down terraced house made "special" with bedroom shoehorned into the loft and what little storage space would have remained now also converted into poky "home office"

    given what it started out as the overall footprint is inevitably small, so each room has limited floorspace resulting in tiny bathroom (family market!) and kitchen

    in comparison competition is :
    a) cheaper
    b) either built as 3 bed from outset or has "normal" extension (ie not loft conversion) whilst still retaining reasonable size bit of land for use by the kids given it is of a size of property aimed at the family market
    c) spacious rooms, with decent kitchens that a family can eat in
    d) have off road parking and/or are not in a road where parking appears to be a problem even if your property has two detached garages (presumably low value pre-fabs rather than "proper" garages given no photo of them
  • tinkerbelle12
    tinkerbelle12 Posts: 24 Forumite
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    booksurr wrote: »
    bog standard 2 up 2 down terraced house made "special" with bedroom shoehorned into the loft and what little storage space would have remained now also converted into poky "home office"

    in comparison competition is :
    a) cheaper
    b) either built as 3 bed from outset or has "normal" extension (ie not loft conversion) whilst still retaining reasonable size bit of land for use by the kids given it is of a size of property aimed at the family market
    c) have off road parking and/or are not in a road where parking appears to be a problem even if your property has two detached garages (presumably low value pre-fabs rather than "proper" garages given no photo of them

    The house was originally built as a 3 storey and always been a 3 bedroom as are all the others on the street. Maybe the photo doesn't do the loft bedroom justice but it is huge!
  • amateur_house
    amateur_house Posts: 276 Forumite
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    edited 4 October 2016 at 11:51PM
    It looks like bedroom one is in the loft, so I assume your floorplan will be something like the house next door, but yours is an end terrace so probably bigger than this?

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=34751120&sale=55374516&country=england

    I considered buying in Whitefield but in my price range (lower than what your house is priced at) the houses all seemed to be in noisy locations near the M60.

    That link didn't work, but it's number 40 in the sold prices on Rightmove.
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