Converted Chapel 4 sale - Bristol

marcg

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Castle Farm Road news & info
Castle Farm Road in Bristol BS15 comprises 28 homes - all are residential. This means that there aren’t any commercial properties in Castle Farm Road. The information on these homes provided below comes from third party data, Mouseprice.com data and information provided by the general public. Mouseprice.com has a huge range of other free information on the property market and on the various properties and streets in England and Wales. Take the time to browse this information to gain a better understanding of your local area or the area you are looking to move to.

The most recently recorded transaction in Castle Farm Road was 13, which sold on 07/11/2008 for £229,000. The property sale that has the highest recorded price in Castle Farm Road to date is 2, which sold on 28/10/2005 for £330,000. The least expensive house purchase in Castle Farm Road is 8a, which sold on 19/01/2001 for £105,000. Visit the Bristol area guide on the Mouseprice.com website for more house price related information.

There are no flats, apartments or maisonettes on Castle Farm Road. Some of these properties are relatively old, as at least one of them was built more than one hundred and fifty years ago. The value of the properties on Castle Farm Road is, on average, £260,650, which makes it one of the more expensive parts of BS15 Bristol, where the average house price is £166,597. This value is calculated using an automated valuation estimate (called an AVM) that is provided on Mouseprice.com. There are a reasonable number of transactions in Castle Farm Road recorded since the 1st of April 2000. This gives us reasonable AVM coverage for Bristol BS15.

There are many properties for sale in Bristol BS15 which are listed on the Mouseprice.com website. However, none of them are on Castle Farm Road. Their asking prices range from £60,000 to £675,000, with an average asking price of £177,007. The asking price of the property which has been put on the market most recently was £144,995 on 24/02/2010. Although this price currently remains the same, there are some discounted properties for sale in Bristol BS15. For instance, a property on Newent Avenue had an original asking price of £144,750, which has just been reduced to £130,455. There are many more discounted properties for sale in Bristol BS15, all of which can be viewed on the Mouseprice.com website.

At the moment there are 12 property flirts in Bristol BS15. Property flirts are properties where the owner has set the price at which they would consider selling their house. None of them are in Castle Farm Road. Their flirt prices range from £145,000 to £435,000, with an average flirt price of £210,000.

Mouseprice.com does not list any properties for rent in Bristol BS15 at the moment. You can, however, find many properties for rent just outside of the Bristol BS15 area. There are many more properties for rent throughout the country listed on Mouseprice.com.

If you live on Castle Farm Road, your nearest primary school is Christ Church Hanham CofE Primary School on Memorial Road and your nearest secondary school is Hanham High School on Memorial Road.

I struggle to see how you get to £500k.

Milliewilly

Difficult to value things that are out of the ordinary though.

I lived in a Watermill so no comparables and had Savills value it at £375K, another local EA at £500K and it sold for £515K in October 2006.

franklee

GDB2222 wrote: »

My preference would be for still pictures. I found it all rather confusing, and I wanted to study one of the pictures, but pffft it had gone. I think you're trying to be too snazzy.?

Thank god it's not just me. Those zooming in moving images drive me insane. Also I want to be in control of which pictures I view, and how long I view for so I'd much prefer static images. The moving images each one pretty much same as the previous just give out a muddled view, I got bored and stopped watching there's ony so many shots of the same table and chairs I can stomach.

Sunshine12

As you are marketing a property at almost half a million I would seriously suggest changing the font and the For Sale signs pictures which TBH looks really naff. You need a more classic font IMO and perhaps alter the font size. You also need to justify your text as its all over the place. Sure this has been said before but it doesnt at first glance actually say where the chapel is. I dont like the images moving around all the time. Still pictures would be better so the potential buyer can actually study them. Sorry if I sound critical but sure you want honesty! I fully understand you wanting to bypass estate agency fees but sometimes it can pay off. The better the marketing the more potential interest you may get. Doesnt happen all the time but good marketing materials definately help. Good luck with sale.

GDB2222

marcg wrote: »

5. Font and presentation generally is more in keeping with a Yorkshire B&B than a upmarket sale. Look at the websites of your "competitor" estate agents (Hydes for example) and steal their fonts and feel. The little For Sale signs are really downmarket for your price range.

In fact, the more I look at it, the more I feel it isn't going to work. I understand what you are trying to do, and the house really seems worth it, but the webdesign is massively out. A good web-designer will do you a site for maybe £800 and you could do with spending some more on getting on Rightmove and maybe an 1/2 page ad in the evening post... all of which will cost you money without necessarily getting you a sale, whereas an EA costs you nothing unless you sell.... Just a thought.

I think that's going a bit OTT. The OP is clearly able to put a website together. He just needs to make it simpler. People are so used to seeing pretty dull offerings on estate agent's websites that they may be put off by something a lot snazzier. The fonts are easy to change, and I very much doubt that anyone interested in the property is going to care what the website looks like.

I agree though that getting people interested in the first place is going to be a much bigger job. One thought, though, aren't Tesco doing some cheap property ads now?

franklee

Aren't there companies that allow you to put a rightmove entry up for a smallish fixed fee? Doing that with some good quality pictures seems a better bet, it could also link to the website.

vicstick86

I love the house.
I would buy it if I had the money!
MARCG, Hanham is a highly desirable beautiful area of Bristol. Low crime rate, good schools etc, and the houses that are talked about in that general blurb are mostly medium terraces.. not a one off special.
Even for a below average condition 1960's house with a tiny garden you can expect to pay between 150-180, so I dont think the price is too ambitious.

The website does not really do it justice and looks a bit cheap and tacky where as the house is stylish and gorgeous.
As has been mentioned above about a web designer, it may be worth looking into it.. but rather than an expensive professional it may be worth asking the university jobshop to place an add for you.
UWE runs a jobshop for students, and every now and again I see adds from small companys asking for students to create websites for them for not a lot of money, same with pictures...


Good Luck its a lovely house!

dopester

Why Use An Estate Agent (Reasons 1 to 10).

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/estate-agents/why/

cit_k

I would say use an estage agent.

No one is going to find your site on the internet, other than a few people who stumble across a link, or people you know who you email the link to...

Selling a house this way just seems tacky, if someone is sitting on half a million worth of property, and wont use an estage agent, or even hire a pro to do a site, then it does not seem right, in fact, some people may worry its a scam, which would put them off, if they ever found the site in the first place....

Nothing wrong with having a pro site, and using an estate agent to double your chances, but you would have to ensure the site is found by people, which takes either money, or work, or both....

getmore4less

Here is my view on the website today at 9:00am

Change the picture transitions to a fade not a sliding fade

Side bar
Move the Overview under Home.

Then each room in order

Then the outside/other info

Overview page

Links to every other section and every room.

Floor plans with links to a page for each room

Overview of room dimensions with lnks to the room pages.

Lounge

Looks like a lounge diner.
room floor plan and dimensions

Kitchen/diner

Stick to one format for the pages I liked the living room page bettter
Do the full screen shots as a slide show on a seperate page.

kitchen/diiner but no pics of the dining area

Bedrooms

Need pages for each bedroom

Bathrooms

Same problem as the bathroom keep the format the same as the living room.
No shower just the handheld hair rinser.

en suite needs info.


Office/workshop

No info at all.


Location

Change the pic to one without a child.
Put links to maps.google mutimap etc.
I would review the format of this page to make the layout look better.
perhaps centre the text and headlines for sections.


walks

Again the page is a differnt layout(stick to text to the left,pics on the right

Can you get links to the local walks is there a tourist info walking map
OS map with the paths etc.

Arial view

Link to an interactive map not an image.

Green

Why not include the green info from the HIP and the annual running costs



Pictures

Seem to be a mix of summer spring winter.

As others have said cars and parking need explaining or removing.




For me the bigest problem is that it is not consistandt and there is not enough info about the actual house.

Looks like you have shown the best rooms and not keen on showing the rest, No bedroom info or room sizes is a big turn off to even thinking of viewing unless local.

Floor plans are a must these days.

Do a slide show for the pics so people can see each picture full screen.

Keep the pages resonable size so people don't have to scroll


Get it on rightmove thats where most people look.