Been on market since JANUARY and not had ANYONE look round!

Mexas

I find the long distance photo of the front of the property very poor. Take one from across the road at an angle.

MissMoneypenny

Cannon_Fodder wrote: »

Thermidor, if you add properties to your "saved properties" on Rightmove, then wait until they disappear from ordinary searches, you can still see saved version, where it will say something like "this property has now been withdrawn/sold" and a greyed-out image of the old advert...which is when you know its time to go hunting for the new advert with another agent, in order to find how much it might have dropped its price by...

Or (as someone else pointed out on this board...can't remember who...sorry) go to rightmove.co.uk and on the top tags hover over 'House prices' and from the drop down menu, click on 'Price Comparison Report'.

You can then put in the postcode and it will show entries for that postcode that have been delelted from rightmove, but it only shows the date the agent/agents took the house off rightmove, not the date they put it on.

LandyAndy

You could try putting it on at £90k and see if there is a lot of interest. You might start a bidding war or you might find that is the true value.

ILW

No offence, but it does look like a council house in a semi derelict estate in the main photo.

LandyAndy

Thermidor wrote: »

Propertybee says the first listing was in June.

Given the nature of the OPs enquiry and their circumstances regarding the other property I am struggling to find a motivation for them lying about the property being on the market since January.

Thermidor

I wasn't suggesting the OP was lying. I was of the understanding that Propertybee gives the history of all properties despite whether they have been changed agents/been taken off/put back on etc. I thought perhaps the estate agent may not have done his job; hence no viewings.

Seems from Cannon Fodder that I am wrong, and I apologise if the OP took me the wrong way.

If it has been marketed since January with not one single viewing, then the OP needs to lower the price, obviously. However, you cannot change the location, and neither can you move the pylon, so I'm not so sure I'd bother to spend money sprucing it up. I don't think many people would want to live there. It does look like a council property, and the fence in front of the property gives an air of a derelict open prison if you want the truth.

Zelie

lorriellah wrote: »

I've done some research and in our village there are 40 houses listed on rightmove a similar price to ours and only 8 are STC.

I don't know the area but in Rightmove there are currently 66 3 bed places for sale. Yours is among the cheaper ones but if this is in a village (even a large village/small town) that's a heck of a lot of people wanting to move out of the area and damn few wanting to move in.

TBeckett100

I am afraid it would be a no from me. I will be blunt because I will tell you how a buyer may view your home...

the front of the house looks council. the shrubland doesnt help.
the living room looks like a brothel, clearly the fireplace needs ripping out. kitchen needs replacing, grandmas piano needs shifting as does the chinese takeaway calender, bedrooms look uninspiring, but you have a mahoosive garden

I am sure your property suits you, but the justification of having spent 25k when i think i would need to spend another 25k to make it mine would put me off.

your agent is lazy and the pictures are too many in number,

we just changed agents and the photos taken by their outsourced company were simply amazing.

laurel7172

Oh, dear. Your poor house has has a bit of a kicking, hasn't it?

Is there any way you could give the grass at the front a bit of a strim to make it tidy for photographs? Or take one from a different angle? It doesn't look like a council house to me, but if I didn't know an area I'd be a bit worried all that lovely space out the front might fill up with local yobs chucking bottles on summer evenings.

Somebody will love it, as you did. You just need to get them through the door. And, I'm not an expert, but £120K is more than a three bed terrace in a nice area would sell for near me. And I'm within commuting distance to London.

lorriellah

When a run down property like mine needs an alarm...? I'm sorry but every property I have ever lived in has an alarm even in a lovely location in Cheshire. I do this for peace of mind not because it's dependent upon the area! When I lived in Cheshire the houses on our street got burgled far more often than here, in fact, I've never heard of any houses locally being burgled. We have the alarm to lower insurance and so that we can have our own peace of mind. I'm failing to see how that comment was at all constructive about how to sell our house!

Thank you for all the sensible responses.