1 Viewing 8 weeks, a bit confused.

DVardysShadow

Pickle1 wrote: »

... Do you think the pics and the price is the reason then!?
Yes the cats love the attention

Try the mystery shopper first. If the agent is rubbish, then you are better moving agent first before dropping your price or getting pictures retaken by an agent you will end up sacking. Get your mystery shopper in quickly.

As for the cats, put them away while the pics are taken, IMO. When buying off rightmove, the first action is to INCLUDE all property meeting a spec and then to EXCLUDE based on details to come up with viewing prospects - often the exclusion is done on a whim. You want to avoid being excluded at this stage and cats might put some people off eg if they hate the smell of cats - althiugh if they view and like the place, they will probably be more rational about the cats.

Pickle1_2

I dint know the cats were in the rooms when the photos were being taken, the estate agent jsut went ff took them then left no mention of anything to be moved to improve pics!

PasturesNew

Pickle1 wrote: »

...the second bedroom is being used as a teaching room as partner is a muscian!

Maybe the neighbours will have a whip round to get rid of you

The photos are awful, photos are the thing that will catch people's eye for them to read the details and pick up the phone.

Your kitchen looks like the corridor to an evil world ....

Maybe spend half a day with a friend or two moving things about and taking your own staged photos... so bung everything up one corner, stick the cat in the bathroom, snap some good pics then put all the stuff back where it came from. Maybe photoshop the kitchen machine out of the photo (easier than moving it).

If I were looking, I'd prefer to view your neighbour's one, where for £4k more I get my own door, garden and a big 2nd bedroom, although the living room is smaller. But that one's also not sold.

Looking within your postcode area, not many flats sell at your price
http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=TN37+6H%3F+&n=100

Last 2 flats to sell over £90k were:
Apr 2008 £105k
Mar 2008 £99k

Widening the area, this one sold at a big loss :
http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=Flat+6%2C+36%2C+Eversfield+Place%2C+St+Leonards-on-sea%2C+East+Sussex%2C+TN37+6DB&n=10

So, it might be price, might be your area that's not overly popular right now, not sure as I am not a local. But there are some ways of looking at things.

Emy1501

Pickle1 wrote: »

I have had my large 2 bedroom flat up for sale now for 2 months and have had just one viewing in the first week. Im a little confused as i havent sold before and was wondering if this was normal, the market or price related! not heard anything from the estate agents since september and im also wondering whether to leave them once the contract is up or give them the benefit of the doubt!
Please help

You should be in contact with your agent on a weekly or at least two weekly basis. They should be updating you with feedback from people on their database regarding why people do not want to view your property etc.

Your agents are not do their job. Selling property in the current is a difficult job and therefore you need to have your property on with an agent who knows how to sell in this climate.

Pickle1_2

Thanks PasturesNew feel a little deflated now, think i have a lot do going by all the poor feedback on the pictures. thanks for all your help and honest opinions, will get moving things and photo shopping x

PasturesNew

That's the thing. You see it through your eyes, your agent wants to talk it up and butter you up, your friends/family/colleagues will all tell you it's lovely ... we're strangers, strangers who will be honest.

It takes a strong person to post a link and hear what we have to say - but whatever we say is what potential buyers will be thinking when they see it.

Good luck!

poppysarah

Showing a crowded street is not a selling point.

It's hard to tell that 2 and 4 are of the same room...

Strange to show two different pics of the kitchen too when they don't add anything different.

BexInLondon

Just to add my two-pence worth I definitely agree re. moving the tumble dryer. Could you sell both washer and dryer and pick up a cheap combi model for the time being? Or, failing that, get rid of the dryer and rely on a laundrette (lots of clothes sitting around on airers won't be great for viewings either). It does look like a nice flat with potential, but there are definitely off-putting factors in the photos!

System

You live 1 mile from me

Let me know how the sale goes.

Edit: As someone who knows nothing about photography, the whole place just looks really gloomy, not enough light in the photos in my amateur opinion.