Honest opions please - my house and why it won't sell

Hulahoops

Batchy wrote: »

the house looks great... the photos look great... really spacious house... unless that is a mirage of the photos and when people get there they are disappointed!

Kitchens are important and over 25% of the kitchen photo is of your personal appliances(white / grey goods)... you need to show cupboard space, and size...

Picture of garden would be better from upstairs window I think!!!?

Ok - Kitchen is a funny shape - there is more the backside of the camerea (note to self) and no - the house is one of the bigger on the market and unless they want me to ikea myself to death - actualy that may be the key - ikea rather than family
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googler

I feel there's too much of 'your life and how you live it' in the house and in the photos. Whilst a lot of things in the photos form part of your life, they don't necessarily form a good part of selling your house as a PRODUCT. You're looking to sell your product, in preference to anyone else's in the market.

Pic 2 - the angle could be better chosen to exclude the snippet of light fitting, and less of the backs of the couches. The floor-standing fan tells me 'this room gets very hot in summer'. Do you really want to imply this?

Pics 3 & 4 are virtually the same shot of the same room. Nice shot of your electric piano, but I'm afraid the red piano stool just doesn't fit. Take that away, take the grey chair out of the room and re-shoot.

Pic 5 - try it without the guitar, and without the black thing on the left

Pic 6 - I can recognise the table football thingie on the left, but what on earth is the rumpled brown mass at the back, and what's the orange circular thing on the right?

The agent should include metric and imperial sizes, should use some line breaks and paragraph breaks, and should stop using CAPITALS to break up the SECTIONS of the text.

They would do well to stop using 'single quotation marks' to distinguish features - when someone says a house has a 'sunny' garden, what does that say to you? To me it's like someone saying something without meaning it. A way of saying out loud that it's sunny, but implying that it isn't. The written equivalent of making the quote mark gesture with your hands as you make the statement.

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Hulahoops

Hulahoops wrote: »

Ok - Kitchen is a funny shape - there is more the backside of the camerea (note to self) and no - the house is one of the bigger on the market and unless they want me to ikea myself to death - actualy that may be the key - ikea rather than family
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Hulahoops

googler wrote: »

I feel there's too much of 'your life and how you live it' in the house and in the photos. Whilst a lot of things in the photos form part of your life, they don't necessarily form a good part of selling your house as a PRODUCT. You're looking to sell your product, in preference to anyone else's in the market.

Pic 2 - the angle could be better chosen to exclude the snippet of light fitting, and less of the backs of the couches. The floor-standing fan tells me 'this room gets very hot in summer'. Do you really want to imply this?

Pics 3 & 4 are virtually the same shot of the same room. Nice shot of your electric piano, but I'm afraid the red piano stool just doesn't fit. Take that away, take the grey chair out of the room and re-shoot.

Pic 5 - try it without the guitar, and without the black thing on the left

Pic 6 - I can recognise the table football thingie on the left, but what on earth is the rumpled brown mass at the back, and what's the orange circular thing on the right?

The agent should include metric and imperial sizes, should use some line breaks and paragraph breaks, and should stop using CAPITALS to break up the SECTIONS of the text.

They would do well to stop using 'single quotation marks' to distinguish features - when someone says a house has a 'sunny' garden, what does that say to you? To me it's like someone saying something without meaning it. A way of saying out loud that it's sunny, but implying that it isn't. The written equivalent of making the quote mark gesture with your hands as you make the statement.

They're just 'good friends'
This car has been 'previously cherished'

Took on board, thank you

victoriaplus4

Hi
i think the house looks very nice from the outside and would appeal but some of the rooms look dated more so the bedrooms,for the asking price i would be looking more for the wow factor.

sorry
vicki

Hulahoops

victoriaplus4 wrote: »

Hi
i think the house looks very nice from the outside and would appeal but some of the rooms look dated more so the bedrooms,for the asking price i would be looking more for the wow factor.

sorry
vicki

Don't be sorry!! I want unbiased opions

Doozergirl

You've hardly been on the market for any time at all.

We can all criticise estate agent details but does thinking that a room might get hot in summer really stop you from viewing? If it does then that sort of person was never really going to buy the house if the difference in viewing is whether there is a fan or not.

Lovely size, well presented, looks like nothing needs doing, I'm fairly local but haven't done much homework but it doesn't appear outrageously priced for the region; lots of house for the money IMO. Your agent has made an effort with your details and it reads like they like your house and have thought about - which I think means they expect to sell it. I don't think it says too much about how you live at all, I think it says that the house is lived in and utilised and that there's plenty of space for the things that you like to do to occur. It's not cluttered by any stretch of the imagination, I like the lifestyle - intelligent, tidy, musical people

I wouldn't change a thing. Hope for some viewings; make sure your agent is working for you, ask about how many brochures are being requested and if people are calling and having conversations; is it appearing in the local rag? nice big pic in there as your price should warrant at least one 1/8 advert if they run them.

If you don't get any viewings then you'll have to address price. There's nothing in the details that would send me running.

Good Luck

cherub1965

could you put one of the table and chairs in the conservatory with nice cloth,bowl etc on it and lose the football table and piano thingy upstairs? maybe a couple of huge plants in conservatory,warm it up a bit?the table by the computer looks like its blocking the entrance,bit cluttered when you could make a feature of it inconserv? maybe a wicker chair?they got some in dunelm mill cheap at min,white or natural.i agree pics of living room bit strange although its a lovely room.i would make them come out and take them again either with them sat down or different angle.

tyllwyd

Looks like a palace to me - are the photos taken with a wide angle lens or are the rooms really that big? My EA reckoned that wide angle lens pictures are illegal because of the Property Misdescriptions Act, and if the house looks bigger in pictures than real life that would put me off.

But it does look lovely, it might just be a case of waiting because things are slow at the moment.

Trollfever

Highest price ever achieved in your road is £305k in November 2007

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