Been on market 4 months and no viewings!

leitmotif

Unfortunately your girlfriend paid far too much for the property. A substantial loss is almost inevitable. The only question is how much. In a market in which there is short supply and high demand, a good estate agent would get you a half decent price. But at present supply is increasing (you have competition) and demand is waning (lack of supply of credit, suspicion of further crash, etc.)

goldbyron

I would drop the deposit offer and reduce the flat by 5-10%. The lease also seems short and would be off putting - is it affordable to extend this? Oh dear I feel for you - I bought in 11/2006 and made a loss of 10% on my flat which sold 2 months ago after 2 price drops. Bad timing but how were we to know.... Sadly you either have to accept a loss of about 10% here or rent it out (sell within 3 years to avoid capital gains) and buy another place if this is an affordable option for you.

spend_thrift

WestonDave wrote: »

In general it all looks nice, however there is a bit of picture overkill - they'd be far better off taking some of them down (the hall, entrance hall, the exterior view ones of some leylandii and houses and reducing the number of the kitchen and lounge) and putting in a floorplan so people can get a feel for how its laid out.

I agree. I'm househunting at the moment (in London) and my first thought was that there were an awful lot of pictures. I would also ask the Estate Agent to consider changing the red "viewing advised" sticker for one that says "open to offers" or "must be seen". "Viewing advised" and red are a little offputting.

Also, the description is very wordy. I would cut that right down.

You may find that people are clicking on your page and getting all the info they need from the website and making a decision based on that. I know that when I have seen places I like the look of on a website and haven't had quite enough information, it has encouraged me to ask for a viewing, if only so I can see what the place is really like in person.

Good luck with it. Your house is gorgeous, just a shame it would be a long commute to work for me!

bowieben2

Right, see amended listing!...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30055763.html?premiumA=true

Slimed down the pictures, and the price! Added 'open to offers'. Fingers crossed

Thanks everyone for your help and advice.

marmitequeen

good stuff and good luck.

Now get your agents to take off the pictures of doors on the brochure (that you can click to from RM). They really bring it down.

I also think it's still too wordy - as Spend_Thrift said there's no temptation to see what the place is like as you're told so much about it. 'Lounge with dining area' is repeated 5 times!!! Make it cleaner and get rid of all the repeated headings - they just look silly.

Riq

How small is that sofa in the second bedroom, it looks minscule!

bowieben2

Yeah it is small. Its a sofa bed.

bowieben2

marmitequeen wrote: »

good stuff and good luck.

Now get your agents to take off the pictures of doors on the brochure (that you can click to from RM). They really bring it down.

I also think it's still too wordy - as Spend_Thrift said there's no temptation to see what the place is like as you're told so much about it. 'Lounge with dining area' is repeated 5 times!!! Make it cleaner and get rid of all the repeated headings - they just look silly.

Yep Ive instructed the EA to do that, so those pics should have gone now.

Im going to print off the listing and go through it tonight and slim it right down then, thanks for your input.

LittleMissAspie

I think it's a lovely flat and I prefer to see the sofabed than a single bed in the spare room, as I wouldn't waste a room by having a bed in there all the time that barely gets used. So I prefer to see it with the sofabed and desk. If I had decided I wanted to buy this flat, I would start with a price below that of the not-so-nice flat, with the intention of paying no more than the asking price of the not-so-nice flat.

Can I be cheeky and ask where you got your desk from, as I am looking for something similar?

bowieben2

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

I think it's a lovely flat and I prefer to see the sofabed than a single bed in the spare room, as I wouldn't waste a room by having a bed in there all the time that barely gets used. So I prefer to see it with the sofabed and desk. If I had decided I wanted to buy this flat, I would start with a price below that of the not-so-nice flat, with the intention of paying no more than the asking price of the not-so-nice flat.

Can I be cheeky and ask where you got your desk from, as I am looking for something similar?

Yeah thats kind of what we thought, we had a single bed in there, but never used it, so decided to turn the room into something that would actually get used. But I can see other peoples points about having a single bed in would make it clear that a single would fit as I know it looks small on the pics. We'll see how we get on anyway!

The desk is from Ikea!