What's wrong with our house?

radyrwife

Agree with all the comments on the garden - pictures were taken early Jan so it does looked a little unloved. Looking much better in this sunny weather and we've had a clear out so will do new pics.

I think until we get a storage solution might do some clever moving round to get some new pictures done and get those off to the estate agent to use, rather than getting him back out to take them.

skylight

Like the house. Love the light in the dining room. Can I have it when you sell????!!!!!!

GDB2222

I don't know the area, but this 4-bedder for £10k less seems a miles better bet. What am I missing?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-31032719.html

hcb42

radyrwife wrote: »

OK - first not ex council and certainly not on an estate so not sure what I can do about that. Agree the kitchen is small but again nothing I can do. There is planning permission on the house for a ground floor extension so any purchaser could extend if they want. Don't agree the 2nd bedroom is small, it's a standard size double? And yes the 3rd is a single room so perhaps a good clear out would help.

Second room IS very small, my fourth bedroom is bigger than that. Third one is kind of in line with the third bedroom in properties of the period, but still it is a box room size.

People can extend, but whether they can afford to is another matter, you need to look at the price compared to what your potential buyers are comparing you to and be critical about it.

Can you afford to reduce price - how long ago did you buy it?

laurel7172

I wondered what that planning permission was...the thing is, if you're selling it with "extensive planning permission", you're selling it as a fixer-upper. It's a tacit admission that it isn't adequate for a family as it is. And as a buyer, I'd be suspecting that if it were cost effective to extend, you would have done it yourselves.

You can't get top market price for a property that needs extensive work. Sorry

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I don't know the area, but this 4-bedder for £10k less seems a miles better bet. What am I missing?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-31032719.html

Location, location, location.

Danescourt is lovely, it has some great shops/services right there and super bus connections and it's on the local rail route .... but it's not got the snob value of Radyr.

Lots of good professionals live in Danescourt, good people. But ... well, it's not Radyr is it.



That's it really.

I'd buy in Danescourt.... er, nuff said then...

Mind_the_Gap

As a seasoned viewer of houses I can only offer these tips on what puts prospective buyers off most. There is however no implication that your property suffers from any of them!

• smell of pets
• pets themselves (other people's pets rarely appeal, they clutter the place up and can be noisy and excitable)
• smell of grease/fried food/any food other than home baking, in some cases
• swirly/floral/patterned/tartan carpets
• grime/grease
• personal photos/school photos everywhere esp. blutacked to walls
• postcards on fridge
• twee little adages on scrolls mounted on doors (seriously!)
• clutter generally, esp. on stairs and in kitchen
• toilet not sparkling clean
• ditto washbasins and sinks
• dirty windows
• naff fireplaces inc. wallmounted flame effect ones
• spaghetti-like mess of wires for electronics
• lack of garage (even though no car may ever live in it)
• loud colours esp. bright or dark red on walls
• things that tire the eyes eg three hundred soft toys in one bedroom
• religious insignia/paraphernalia

Things which make a sale more likely:

• smell of coffee and home baking/bread in oven
• an articulate, interested, informed person showing them round (not some monsyllabic grunter who knows nothing about the place and cares even less)
• absence of vendor's children during viewing (vendor is always on edge worrying they'll say something inappropriate, they often throw tantrums or whinge or demand attention and they clutter the place up. Send them out to play or even better, to Grandad's house.)
• rooms look bigger if you let them go in first (so first impression of room is of space, not you in it))
• everywhere spotlessly clean and tidy
• pale neutral shades of matt paint on walls
• new kitchen and bathroom if possible

Good luck!

Pupnik

radyrwife wrote: »

I think until we get a storage solution might do some clever moving round to get some new pictures done and get those off to the estate agent to use, rather than getting him back out to take them.

Good idea, estate agents are not photographers and their photos never seem to make the best of the lighting or the space- one I saw recently has all the photos taken on a winter afternoon with no lights on, looked very drab and lonely. At least if you take your own photos you can wait for a nice break in the clouds and dash out with your camera

Edit- just a comment on one of the above posts regarding the palnning permission but it would appeal to me and not make me assume it isn't adequate or that it is a fixer upper- the quality of the interior shows that it clearly is not a fixer upper. One of the things I look for in a property is how would I be able to increase the value, what work can I do over the years? Somebody might decide they would like a conservatory or to have a study built downstairs to they can work from home- having the option to extend doesn't mean the house is not already a perfectly good family home.

withabix

According to mouseprice, you paid £106,500 in 2001, so it would appear you have at least £130k equity even if you had a 100% mortgage at the time, even more if you had equity and have paid maybe 30% of the capital off as well?

ie how much do you need to sell the house? - can you afford to take £10k off?

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Location, location, location.

Danescourt is lovely, it has some great shops/services right there and super bus connections and it's on the local rail route .... but it's not got the snob value of Radyr.

Lots of good professionals live in Danescourt, good people. But ... well, it's not Radyr is it.



That's it really.

I'd buy in Danescourt.... er, nuff said then...

It's within 1/4 mile!

But, OK, nuff said.