Beginning to Think Our House Won't Currently Sell at Any Price

westv

Ok. Ideal scenario I would.

Lounge:-
Remove rug, coffee table (replace with smaller one), poffe, stereo stand, cabinet

Study
Remove taller bookshelf (or remove some of the books), small cabinet (not shown in pics) and rug (not shown on pics).

Bedroom 3
Replace camp bed with standard single, remove canvas wardrobe unit and smaller canvas unit. Replace with 1 bedside cabinet. Should I have a wardrobe in this room? Replace laminate flooring and wallpaper.

Bedroom 2
More decluttering can always be done!

Bathroom
Replace carpet with hard flooring and replace suite with white items.

En suite
Replace carpet with hard surface.

moggylover

Have been trying to sell two houses for months now - and my over-all feeling - having studied the housing market around here, and also talking to various estate agents in the area, that the majority of "viewers" at the moment are not serious but just sight seeing. Most (not all, but most) around here seem to have not yet sold their own house - and want to get an idea of just how much they might have to pay for a house in the area they want so that they can see how much they have to get for their own house.

Our market wasn't much good last year - and is almost totally dead at the moment, with all the local estate agents admitting that they have like 200 houses available and only about 10 viewers a week coming in! Prices are already dropping back to 2004 level around here - but even that does not appear to be stirring up interest!

TBH I think yours is a nice house, and I didn't find the colours off-putting but I do think you need to get the agents back to take the pics from better angles to make the rooms look as big as they can look. Yes, the bedrooms are a little on the small side - but I really do think that if you are under the prices for similar houses, then it is just that there are not enough buyers with their houses sold out there yet.

westv

moggylover wrote: »

...it is just that there are not enough buyers with their houses sold out there yet.

Of the viewers we have had I think about 90% hadn't yet sold.

lynzpower

Personally, I'd probably nick a screen grab of somebody else's (that was the same layout) from about 400 miles away from my house and then fiddle around with it to remove their room sizes and add my own.

WOAH WOAH

Dont whatever you do just guesstimate your room sizes and cobble together a floor plan. A floor plan simply HAS to be accurate, it is your responsibility as the vendor.

Most estate agents will use an outsourced company to do floor plans , ( sometimes 3d etc) and they have indemnity policies and insurance.

If a floor plan co does it its thier insurance
if the EA does it its thier insurance
if you do it( ie get the measurements wrong) you have broken Property misdescriptions law and its you the buyer can sue. there are damages payable to crown.

PasturesNew

westv wrote: »

The bathroom and en suite both have carpet. I know this is usually a no no but none of the viewers have mentioned this as a problem.

They won't, it would have the same effect as them saying "ewww ewww ewww.... you filthy pigs!!! I can smell pee pee. ewwww"

So they take the polite way out and find something else.

PasturesNew

lynzpower wrote: »

If a floor plan co does it its thier insurance
if the EA does it its thier insurance
if you do it( ie get the measurements wrong) you have broken Property misdescriptions law and its you the buyer can sue. there are damages payable to crown.

From what I've seen of EA details there's lots of disclaimers "Layout is provided as a rough guide only" type of thing.

westv

PasturesNew wrote: »

They won't, it would have the same effect as them saying "ewww ewww ewww.... you filthy pigs!!! I can smell pee pee. ewwww"

So they take the polite way out and find something else.

No the pigs are in the shed! :rotfl:
Laminte or just bare floorboards?

PasturesNew

westv wrote: »

No the pigs are in the shed! :rotfl:
Laminte or just bare floorboards?

There's also vinyl. You can get some nice ones.

I feel if the buyer wants laminate, they won't see fitting a spot of laminate in the bathroom is too onerous; if they hate laminate they'll be pleased you didn't have it. And laminate in a wet environment might lead to trouble.

Is it floorboards in your bathroom? House looks too new for real floorboards to have been present.

If it's got real floorboards then they'll do and you can dress the floor up with ... er .. well, with something that people that know what they're doing would put down. (I have NO idea what that would be!)

dander

I think you're pretty right in your original subject title, really. You can reduce the price, redecorate, re-write the agents details, but if there just aren't the people out there who want to buy and can buy at the moment, you won't sell. It's crappy, but true.

You only have to look at the advice wannabe buyers are getting on these boards at the moment it's almost entirely, "Don't do it!"

wisbech_lad

westv wrote: »

Unfortunately it's too expensive.

Well, if you think it is too expensive, not surprised it isn't selling...