we get viewers but they always offer on other houses..?

googler

Babymerlin wrote: »

we have (what the EA have said) above average viewers for our house....the thing is thats all well and good but no offers....they always seem to offer on other houses

Who's conducting the viewings? You or the agent?

Babymerlin

agent is doing the viewings, we are not there.

Doozergirl

Do you know any of the houses they ended up buying? Would be useful to compare. If you could fire up your EA to ask that question so that you can at least see what it might be that you're missing.

I wouldn't go joint agency - why on earth is your agent suggesting that!

It's just about getting the right agent in the first place but if you are getting viewings, it might just be worth them asking the viewers what they think the house is worth.

Have they given you specific feedback from your viewers? They should push viewers for more than 'it's not for us' and try to get to some specifics so that you can change what you can or appreciate the things you can't.

I'd do some of the viewings yourself, see what sort of person is viewing and also be there to answer their questions. It does look non-standard construction from the photo - is it the shadow from a pylon or something?

Doozergirl

Interesting. Just had a look at the selling prices for the street and the last house sold for £145k in August. Yours is well presetned so I don't see your asking price as excessive. I can also see similar houses under offer in Chippenham priced above and below yours. Seems you're in the right ballpark. If you were to drop the price, I wouldn't drop it far - I think it's a matter of time really. There are some period properties priced just higher - £150-£155k and my personal preference would be for something like that - I don't know if just another £2 or £3k drop would push it for you, make you seem more reasonably priced?

There are more houses than buyers out there at the moment and people are being picky.

Is your agent actively encouraging offers of any kind or is it possible that they simply aren't pushing it with people? I'm surprised no one has made even a cheeky offer.

googler

Babymerlin wrote: »

agent is doing the viewings, we are not there.

What does the agent tell you about the viewings once they've taken place?

westv

The only things that might put me off are that it looks ex council (sorry I'm a snob ) and the garden looks extremly boring (but obviously that could be changed by the new owner).
More photos would be nice though.

lincroft1710

Nicely presented but L/R and Kit are small and no off road parking, these can put potential buyers off, rear garden looks a bit bare. Is the house built of concrete rather than brick.

pinkshoes

I think it looks nice inside, and searching rightmove within half a mile of your postcode shows you are reasonably priced for a 3 bed end terrace.

The only other one I would look at first is THIS one, as it's £5k cheaper, just round the corner, and looks less council house!

Also, could they put the room dimensions on the floor plan, as otherwise you have to keep going back to the main page to see the room size?

And perhaps a bathroom photo, if it's a nice one?

DVardysShadow

Babymerlin wrote: »

agent is doing the viewings, we are not there.

Is there a reason for this? Obviously, you don't prod someone on a first viewing as to whether they will make an offer. But it could help if you observe how viewers react.

Also, if your viewers only meet the agent, but they do meet other vendors, you could be at a disadvantage - your remoteness may give rise to a perception that you could be more difficult to deal with than the vendors they do meet - hence the offers get made on other houses.

Thinking on from this a bit more, you might be frustrated that your viewers are offering on other houses. Now if this is true [rather than agent's spin], then you are in fact getting serious viewers through the door. So you should be focussing on what happens when they view - you don't need to worry too much about the presentation on Rightmove or in the printed details.

WestonDave

I'm guessing that lack of pictures is to some degree working in that you are getting viewings, at which I suspect people are realising that the rooms are quite small. The kitchen looks cramped in that photo (possibly due to the table on the left) but there is only the kitchen and lounge in the downstairs of the property - no dining room so it possibly feels a bit "over bedroomed" for the living space. Similarly the bedrooms aren't generous with I suspect bedroom 3 and the bathroom potentially reduced further if that end roof construction lowers the ceiling in the rooms. Windows also seem quite small - the fact that the cooker hood light is on suggests a slightly desperate attempt to lighten the kitchen.

All that said it all appears in good decor and nothing there to put someone off apart (unfortunately) from the instrinsic cheap looking structure of the house (as others have said it looks ex LA). In the current market it might have to be a case of taking a price drop on the chin or just holding out and hoping someone needs a cheap downsize without losing bedrooms.