1 flat, 2 months, 29 viewings, no offers? Can anyone beat this?

goldbyron

Okay I thought I would update the situation. Since early December I had some more viewings, to no avail, before Xmas hit. The agent took the photos I wanted, placed them on the site, we re-adjusted the price bracket range (200-220), added my spiel, de-cluttered, fixed new guttering (at a cost!) and painted a wall which had dried out from the previous guttering leak.

So I have had 4 viewings (with interest from a couple others who cancelled due to snow) so far. The interest seems to continue and of course the weather has affected progress. One of the latest feedback is a viewer who liked the flat but offered on another. I have cut and paste my new details and then the details of this other flat. This is the 3rd time someone has choosen this property (or another in the block) over mine. I can't fathom why this flat is preferable to mine on three occasions (incidentally it is close by so same area but mine is nearer to the tube_. Can anyone point out if they would also prefer the other property and why? Fingers crossed someone puts in an offer soon as the amount of viewings is driving me crazy with no offers coming through. Starting to become very disheartened...

My property

http://www.douglasallenspiro.co.uk/searchresults/property-details.asp?PropertyID=53613133&searchGUID=2010111102747

The other one (that keeps beating mine!)

http://www.douglasallenspiro.co.uk/searchresults/property-details.asp?PropertyID=53612801&searchGUID=2010111102747

Thanks again - hope to have good news soon

LandyAndy

My first thought is that the 'other' flat has a much larger living room (twice the size) while all other rooms are comparable.

Also, personal choice, if I was buying a flat I think I would prefer a purpose built one to a conversion.

goldbyron

Fair enough point about the living room. Yes it seems conversions aren't as popular as I have known them to be in the past - when I lived more in East London...

Cannon_Fodder

Isn't allocated parking going to be a factor? Yours needs to be cheaper than one with defined parking, I would have thought.

goldbyron

I have considered this however there is no problem parking (no permits) on my street. I also thought that maybe the fact I had a back garden (or yard with shed!) would counter balance the parking space in terms of value anyway?

thorsoak

Yours is a first floor flat ....are there any "cooking" or other
smells emitting from the ground-floor/top floor flats?

You may be so used to them that you no longer recognise them - but others might!

goldbyron

LOL - my partner lives upstairs and a single person downstairs. There is no cooking smells/other suspicious smells (and no holes dug in the back yard!) and I have an acute sense of smell. Like the thought though.

PasturesNew

I would rather have the other one than yours because:
- the living room's bigger
- parking is guaranteed forever
- overall, usually, they cost more than yours, so I'd perceive it as better value/pricing/yours appears overpriced*
- it's newer looking and I'd perceive it as less likely to be hiding a bodge job
- it looks like it stands in more land, that I'd have access to (sit on the grass in the summer)

Comparing the two, I'd rather go for a purpose built one than your conversion.

*
http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=IG8+9JH&n=100
http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=Savill+Court%2C+Woodford+Green&n=100

sebtomato

goldbyron wrote: »

we re-adjusted the price bracket range (200-220)

I am really struggling to understand the point/benefit of stating a price range, as opposed to a single price.

Who would be offering £220K for the property, if the range starts at £200K, the house has been on the market for months, and we are in a buyer's market currently.