Simply no interest in my house

hoggums

Perhaps the vendor should come round to the idea that he is going to have to sell for a loss.

A competitively priced property will generate interest, and no amount pushing by agents is going to make someone offer on an overpriced property.

The fact that you are receiving no offers means that the price must be so far off the mark, buyers arent even willing to entertain looking at the property.

We all make mistakes in life. How much money have you paid in interest since Feb2008? If you reduced the price of your property by that much and sold in Feb 2008 you would have been no worse off than now.

baileysbattlebus

Can you rent out the house? Could you get enough money in rent to cover or nearly cover your mortgage? You must be managing to pay the mortgage and the rent in Edinburgh at the moment - so renting could ease the burden.

You could "tart" it up a bit get rid of your furniture and try and find a tenant.

If the potential rent is enough to make it managable - you could try and get an income from it for a couple of years.

I don't have a clue what rents are in the area where your house is situated - probably £350 - £450 per month

Just a thought.

poppy10_2

You're better off having no pictures at all than pictures like this.



Have a tidy up and take some new pics.

barnaby-bear

Forris wrote: »

Would it be possible to get a floorplan put up on Rightmove? You say that the house is spacious but the photos do not show that, and that may be its best selling point. Also, the photo of the kitchen, with the cupboard door hanging off, looks really awful.

Shocking photos.
Bad quality, pixellated, bit dark and depressing.
Messy. Stuff needs to be tidied. Buyer thinks no storage and these people don't care.
Looks in disrepair - kitchen cupboards falling apart - mirror fallen off wall in bathroom. If cupboards are falling apart no doubt a buyer will assume the hidden basics like electrics, guttering, plaster ropey - pictures say this is not well looked after.
Garden - really this photo adds nothing - other than tell me there's some depressing concrete. If you can't put some pretty pots, bbq, garden furniture out and make it a patio for the photos - ditch the photo.

It's probably not like that but badly presented and that's the impression from the photos.

ginvzt

Honestly, photos are horrible! It is not inviting to see the house at all and they are quite blurry. Clean up the house and give some light there!

Oh, the house (no need to replace anything in the link, just click...)

barnaby-bear

poppy10 wrote: »

You're better off having no pictures at all than pictures like this.



Have a tidy up and take some new pics.

The weird pixellation effect make everything look stained and dirty too.... is the carpet really covered in black and green splodges?

Geenie

Hi OP, you definitely need to spend a bit of time clearing the place out and smartening it up. The pictures do it no favours, and as already said the info isn't even correct! Very bad and lazy marketing by the EA's.

You can get paint in bulk quite cheaply from the likes of B&Q, and this would freshen the walls. The bathroom looks a good size, so emphasis the good points. The patio looks green, so give it a good scrub and as already suggested put a few plant pots out for photos. It all looks tired and like someone has left in a hurry.

You do need to put in effort in this competitive market, and present a house so someone will want to come and have a look. As being presented at the moment, people will look at the pictures and move on. Good luck OP.

ginvzt

What is bedroom 4 dimensions? In the title it says 3-bed house, but gives the dimensions for FIVE bedrooms???? Oh, and I would say drop "in need of modernisation" from description, is viewers can decide for them selves that...

Have a proper house description, as the one that is there doesn't give me any info (and put dimensions in metres as well!!!)

mizzbiz

As I said in another thread (strangely, a thread about this thread), could you not let out to students? I realise it's almost two miles away, which is slightly too far, bt could you not think along those lines?

Was this a "slum area" prior to the housing boom? The reason I ask is that a) the area looks it and b) where I live, there is a slum area close by where big houses used to go for under £20k. Come the boom they started going for silly money, like around the price of yours, however, in this area, the prices have hit the floor big style. I think it was BTL and occasional FTB's that were buying them up and now want rid of them like there's no tomorrow. The areas are still slums, despite all the new build apartments etc. I know this won't help your plight, but i'm curious to know if it's a similar type of area.

I also agree with the other posters that the photgraphs are awful. AND for the sake of a day spent sprucing up, you could add thousands to any offer. Cleaning, tidying, putting plain fabrics on windows, beds etc. Try and make it look as neutral and unoffending as possible. At the moment it looks like a doss house, but you can generate interest by not presenting this image in your marketing.

beccad

Fix the kitchen, clear out all the junk and do some decorating (you can get enormous 10 litre tubs of white or magnolia paint from Homebase and similar places for about £15 - two of them would probably do your whole house. And instruct a different agent!