Do I have the Unsellable Flat ?

zulucal

Gordon brown is the MP in Kirkclady :rotfl:

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Houses and flats are starting to pick up in Kirkcaldy and smaller towns around. Fife on a whole has been very very slow recently.

I would give the house a bit of a freshen up. It looks large - I think the photos are quite dark and don't portray it in best light (no pun intended!). Paint the house white - remove wallpaper and paint white. People often conclude white = clean and fresh and it's also a blank canvas.

Take some more photos - nice large flowers - dress it up a little jsut for the photos.

Do you do the viewings or the estate agency?

Henry_P_Chester

zulucal wrote: »

Gordon brown is the MP in Kirkclady :rotfl:

Maybe that's why it's not selling!

brit1234

Right Move link with Property Bee

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27625787.html

History

dateevent09 April 2010

• Price changed: from '£59,950 (Fixed Price)' to '£55,000 (Fixed Price)'

10 March 2010

• Price changed: from '£64,950 (Fixed Price)' to '£59,950 (Fixed Price)'

31 October 2009

• Initial entry found.

Prices have gone down since 9th April, may have to consider a small drop again.

zulucal

GoldenJill wrote: »

Houses and flats are starting to pick up in Kirkcaldy and smaller towns around. Fife on a whole has been very very slow recently.

I would give the house a bit of a freshen up. It looks large - I think the photos are quite dark and don't portray it in best light (no pun intended!). Paint the house white - remove wallpaper and paint white. People often conclude white = clean and fresh and it's also a blank canvas.

Take some more photos - nice large flowers - dress it up a little jsut for the photos.

Do you do the viewings or the estate agency?

The Estate agents do the viewings as I live in Aberdeen so its impossible for me to be there for them. Would you paint all the rooms white? Am just asking as I say am running on empty now in terms of what to do and on an extremely tight budget and if all that is needed is a coat of white paint I can easy manage that. Was also the agents that took the pics.

zulucal

brit1234 wrote: »

Right Move link with Property Bee


History

dateevent09 April 2010

• Price changed: from '£59,950 (Fixed Price)' to '£55,000 (Fixed Price)'

10 March 2010

• Price changed: from '£64,950 (Fixed Price)' to '£59,950 (Fixed Price)'

31 October 2009

• Initial entry found.

Prices have gone down since 9th April, may have to consider a small drop again.

Phoned the agents yesterday and put the price to Offers in the region of. But only feedback i get is that the kitchen is too small.

Prudent

The market in a lot of Scotland is still really slow. I do agree about the colours though. They are fairly strong colours for a small space. Be careful not just to paint over the paper - this could make it look worse.

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zulucal wrote: »

The Estate agents do the viewings as I live in Aberdeen so its impossible for me to be there for them. Would you paint all the rooms white? Am just asking as I say am running on empty now in terms of what to do and on an extremely tight budget and if all that is needed is a coat of white paint I can easy manage that. Was also the agents that took the pics.

I would remove the wallpaper, paint the bedrooms white and the yellow in the lounge area. You have a lovely room with the fireplace, I think it just needs to be smartened up.

People love seeing white - sounds crazy as to me it can seem dull - however, white is best for selling as it looks clean and fresh and totally free for the buyer to put their own stamp on it.

Add some homley touches - ie: big bunch of flowers on top of the fire place (you can buy really good faux ones in Dunelm Mill on the Kirkcaldy esplanade) buy some candles for in the fireplace and also some cheap framed posters of Scotland scenes - also in Dunelm. Can you change the bed linen to white and also put 'fresh faux' flowers in there. The room looks a little cluthered with furniture - can you store the small table etc. somewhre else or move to another place in the flat? I think the bedroom at present looks too dated - but won't cost the earth to strip wallpaper, paint and just move furniture about. In fact, move all unecessary furntiture - always makes rooms seem much larger and doesn't look just 'dumped here as we don't know what to do with it'.

The kitchen is small - nothing you can do about that, however, can you perhaps remove one of the lounges in your living romo and put a breakfasting table by the window with two chairs? Put a bowl with fruit on the table and set it nicely with white linen napkins/whtie plates and brand new sparkling cutlery (again Dunelm wil lsort this out) - not placemats but nicely set

Remember when you sell a house you need the buyers to imagne themselves here - living here, relaxing by the fireplace, having breakfast by the window - sell the lifestyle to them.

Now... as a bigger job can't see clearly - but is does the kitchen need new tiles? Hope you don't take offence but the wall looks a bit, well, shabby. Maybe it just the photo? Looks like wood, older tiles, wall with thining paint. Thsi is a bit of a bigger job but to have all tiled or all smooth white walled will make it seem bigger. What do you do in Aberdeen? Do you have friends/colleagues who could help out in return for dinner and a few beers?

And then finally and most importantly, take more photos! Experiment with them at differnt angles showing as much of the room as possible. Wait for a really bright day, throw back the curtains and turn on all the lights.

All the very best of luck! let us know how you get on.

Annisele

On the photographs it looks as though your kitchen consists of a cooker and four cabinets, no sink, and no place for a fridge or a freezer.

I know the description says it's a little bigger than that, but as the advert stands I don't think I'd even bother to view your flat. I'd just look at the photographs and say "no way could I cook in that kitchen". I agree with others than new photographs in general would be a good idea, but I think kitchen photograph especially needs work.

KarterFury

there was a post earlier that claimed that no property is unsellable, this is quite untrue, I myself, am living in a council temporary rented through a housing association. Because of the foundation of this property being different than the others on this block, it is deemed unsellable by any estate agent, housing association, etc etc, at the moment, we are looking into council buying the property back off of the landlord, because by law, if a council once owned a property, they are obligated to buy it back if deemed unsellable