Is something wrong with our house?

bifold

GDB2222 wrote: »

"For that sort of money I would expect tip top condition." Is that a fair comment, though? Do you live in an area where terraced 2-bed houses go for £250k+ ? If the roof were putting off prospective buyers, the OP would be getting offers, just a bit lower than she wants, but she'd be getting offers. The fence is neither here nor there, although it wouldn't hurt to tidy up.

Yes I do live in a area that has 2-bed terraced that go for £250k+
The house next door has a replacement concrete tiled roof,A lot of people like to buy a house that needs no further work.I think I made a fair comment.Sorry you dont agree.

HypnoNu

HI Catblue - google streetview is quite out of date for our area, the Slot Leisure isn't actually there anymore, it's a very poncey,expensive bathroom/kitchen shop now. and the Oriental Kitchen place isn't there either, i think the pics are about 2 years old? the reason i was showing the other road was for exactly that comparison though, the fact that ours is on a busier, slightly less desirable road is why we have it up for £55k less even though the location in relation to distance from Windsor town centre,etc is the same.

HypnoNu

GAH - no it's only been up for 2 weeks with our new agent, our previous rubbish agent who refused to do viewings after 6 (!!!!) had it from the end of Feb.

smallblueplanet

Haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if this misses the point. Also I know nothing of the area (location, location, location!) that its for sale in, but the house itself looks great from the photos. So if people are viewing they must think so too. To a certain extent that sort of implies they don't think its overpriced either. So if you are getting no offers I would ask your agent why viewers aren't offering - if they don't know ask them to call back past viewers and ask them - nothing wrong with that, its their job. (Can't believe a cat - is that the suggestion? - would really put buyers off if the house was a 'good buy'.)

Catblue

HypnoNu wrote: »

HI Catblue - google streetview is quite out of date for our area, the Slot Leisure isn't actually there anymore, it's a very poncey,expensive bathroom/kitchen shop now. and the Oriental Kitchen place isn't there either, i think the pics are about 2 years old? the reason i was showing the other road was for exactly that comparison though, the fact that ours is on a busier, slightly less desirable road is why we have it up for £55k less even though the location in relation to distance from Windsor town centre,etc is the same.

Okay, you say that your road is "busier, slightly less desirable" while I would say that it is a lot less desirable. On the face of it, I really would expect to pay a lot more to live in the other street.

Anyway, I meant to say in my first post that yours is a lovely house, absolutely nothing wrong with it in answer to your original question. Good luck.

GDB2222

bifold wrote: »

Yes I do live in a area that has 2-bed terraced that go for £250k+
The house next door has a replacement concrete tiled roof,A lot of people like to buy a house that needs no further work.I think I made a fair comment.Sorry you dont agree.

I personally would not replace the slate roof with concrete tiles, but I take your point that it's maintenance-free. I really can't see from the photos that the roof needs any attention at all, but you can re-slate the entire roof for around £3k. Sorry if there was any offence, but it seemed an odd point to be picking on.

warez22

I suppose your house is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If I was desperately trying to sell I would reduce it until it reached it's sale level. Whether you can do that having invested so much both physically and emotionally I am sure is a different matter.

If your Estate Agent isn't offering you any constructive advice, maybe you need to move on.

But I would have thought that the market wouldnt have increased from 4 years ago to the amount that you have put it on the market for. I appreciate that you have extensively refurbished the house but has everything you have done added value to the house? Taking into account the downturn in the market?

On a lighter note - let the poor cat stay!:)

GDB2222

Catblue wrote: »

Okay, you say that your road is "busier, slightly less desirable" while I would say that it is a lot less desirable. On the face of it, I really would expect to pay a lot more to live in the other street.

Anyway, I meant to say in my first post that yours is a lovely house, absolutely nothing wrong with it in answer to your original question. Good luck.

Having just had a look on Streetview, I tend to agree. The house looks charming on Rightmove. I wonder whether people are coming to view the house because of that, and then they are put off by the location? As you can't change that, there's not much you can do about it. However, if I had the cash, I'd definitely pay the extra to be in the close - and of course that one has not sold either!

Mind you, I would be put off by the school with that one.

serious_saver

Biggest problem for me would be the parking. I just found it on street view and there appear to be double yellow lines outside the house and driveways on the opposite side.

Despite the fact that they are smaller people will look at past sales and say "Well a 2 bed across the road with parking sold for . . ." Yours may well be bigger but unfortunately a lot of people won't look at that, they'll just see a 2 bed without parking.

Errata

When you have a viewing put the cat in it's carrier and stick it in the car and put the litter tray in the boot.
Get some pics up of ALL the bedrooms AND the conservatory AND the stairs and upper landing
Tell the idiot EA to stop sending you viewers who can't proceed
Stick a pot of flowers by the front door to cheer things up and do try and do something about the back garden - even a pic from a different angle would be an improvement to the current one
Do make sure it's priced as sharply as possible. My rellys bought an almost identical house to yours just a few doors away from yours in the early 70's for £4k !