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Any tips on selling our house?

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  • hcb42
    hcb42 Posts: 5,962 Forumite
    I think it is a very odd shaped building and the bell and the surgery and the pictures are certainly not selling it....

    I would have a good old declutter, and mini makeover and get it remarketed
  • anderson8
    anderson8 Posts: 1,224 Forumite
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    thanks for all the tips and advice.

    it was actually my dentists when i was wee!
    well tonight i have completely gutted the living room and moved the furniture and it does look bigger!
    bathroom and kitchen tomorrow. if nothing comes from the viewing weve got this week, im going to get the pictures retaken and the blurb changed.
  • MoneyJuggler
    MoneyJuggler Posts: 138 Forumite
    Pretty much agree with all the comments,definitely leave out the bit about the dentists, we are house hunting at the moment , and that wouldn't necessarily put me off,but it being first inthe details would, as I would suspect that was the biggest selling point, but in your case it's not -it's a nice cottage, great for commuters, and great off street parking.

    I would also do a lot of experimenting with picture angles -take some from down low,some standing on a chair etc, just to get the best aspect possible -most room pictures I see on Right move are taken with a slight fisheye lens, usually from just outside the door of the room being photographed, not so you can see the door, but so you maximise the space.

    Also you are right to declutter, at least to give the impression that everything has a place, if not, remove it even just for the pictures. (apart fromkids room maybe , as anyone with kids will understand!)

    Then also experiment with the outside pictures-it's amazing what a difference taking the picture on a sunny day will make!

    Good luck!
  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    all photos need redoing...they are rubbish
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • Photographs are poor, as others have said. Zoomed in etc.

    Lounge (except guitar, whats that all about?) looks like a waiting room, which just continues the dentist theme, which you really do need to lose. The surgery sign needs to go before viewings too imho.

    It does just seem the photos are desperately trying to find things of interest, and failing.

    Our bathroom is a weak point (coloured suite) so EA suggested he didn't photograph it. The kitchen is a strong point so we had two pics of it. Ditto outside space. Focus on the positive. A doorbell, guitar, cramped bathroom, close up of a bed and surgery sign really don't sell it to me. Take those out and what is left? The kitchen, the outside space, lounge with less furniture and arranged better, bedrooms from the doorway..... surely much better?

    Seriously consider reducing the lounge furniture to one sofa and a chair. We spent £500 putting stuff in storage for six months. We sold within 5 weeks, Not a bad investment and it will make the move easier.
    If I had a pound for every pound I'd lost, I'd be confused
  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
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    Another thing - that building to the right, is it a house? It looks like the back of an old church hall or something and that it might be part of a car-park behind it. I'd try and take the house pics from the front. Show what's either side of it, but I'd avoid that particular angle.

    Noticed on street view that it looks even smaller if looking at it from the other direction as you can't see the section the front door's in. Am sure your EA will have a digital camera so check out the pics before you send him back on his way. Very easy to retake pics, I really don't think there's much excuse for your EA being so rubbish with a camera!

    Jx
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
  • anderson8
    anderson8 Posts: 1,224 Forumite
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    hazyjo wrote: »
    Another thing - that building to the right, is it a house? It looks like the back of an old church hall or something and that it might be part of a car-park behind it. I'd try and take the house pics from the front. Show what's either side of it, but I'd avoid that particular angle.it is another house, that land is ours and used to be the car park for the dentists.

    Noticed on street view that it looks even smaller if looking at it from the other direction as you can't see the section the front door's in. Am sure your EA will have a digital camera so check out the pics before you send him back on his way. Very easy to retake pics, I really don't think there's much excuse for your EA being so rubbish with a camera!think our EA imagined himself better, he was even getting me to hold table lamps to get "certain" light.

    Jx
    well ive got an unexpected day off work today so will be having a good old tidy and declutter before our viewing. then depending how that goes, get the EA out to retake pics.
  • Catblue
    Catblue Posts: 872 Forumite
    Interesting that the space to the right side of the house belongs to you.

    Could you get planning permission to build another house there? Alternatively a buyer could extend the existing house which is also a big selling point. Someone might want to build a garage/workshop there and it looks like there is the space to do it. Alternatively, a buyer might want to create a side garden in that space.

    Would be worth finding out whether planning permission would even be possible though. If it is, then the value of the plot goes up.

    This is only going to work if the land is exclusively yours and there are no rights of way or access for other houses along the back of the road. On StreetView it looks like neighbours park there so it might not be a goer.
  • anderson8
    anderson8 Posts: 1,224 Forumite
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    Catblue wrote: »
    Interesting that the space to the right side of the house belongs to you.

    Could you get planning permission to build another house there? Alternatively a buyer could extend the existing house which is also a big selling point. Someone might want to build a garage/workshop there and it looks like there is the space to do it. Alternatively, a buyer might want to create a side garden in that space.

    Would be worth finding out whether planning permission would even be possible though. If it is, then the value of the plot goes up.

    This is only going to work if the land is exclusively yours and there are no rights of way or access for other houses along the back of the road. On StreetView it looks like neighbours park there so it might not be a goer.
    extending is out otherwise we wouldnt move.
    there is a right of access driveway on that land right along our house as there is a house behind us. it is our land though and no one parks on it other than us, we now have a shed on that land and were considering grassing the non driveway part
  • googler
    googler Posts: 16,103 Forumite
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    The front photo makes it look small, and the internal photos do nothing to dispel this view.

    Working back through the photos, the bathroom one is a shocker. Do you REALLY think that all those shower gel, shampoo bottles, the half-used soap on the basin, and the well-used toothbrush will HELP to sell your house?

    Loads of clutter in the kid's room that could be moved to give a cleaner look

    Guitars lying around don't add anything to the shot.

    Shots of the surgery door, doorbell and front door arch don't add any value, neither does the image of it having been the dental surgery.
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