I cant sell my house - any advice?

Mayflower10cat

Very nicely done kitchen/dining area. (Not keen on the bunting I must admit!) Where do you park?

There's almost too many photos, I never thought I'd say that, but you could only use the best shots of the garden, not ALL of them. The shower head is funny!

Good luck, it's so hard when you really can't alter the size!

ellives

bunting is going today!

cramg

£317K is a heck of a lot of money to most people so your house needs to look like a show home and give off the 'wow' factor.
The photos are terrible, they do not sell the house what so ever. I mean why on earth did the agent take a photo of a shower head....
De-clutter, drop the bunting, get a smaller dining table to make the kitchen look bigger, remove the work desk from the living room and make it look like a 'family living room'. Try to get all matching furniture in the living room as well. Its all phsycological, if everything is pleasing to the eye then you stand a better chance of capturing that potential buyer.

pimento

You don't really have a kitchen. All the cabinets are free standing so any viewer will maybe be factoring in the cost of having one fitted.

Davesnave

Parking seems from the aerial photo to be entirely on the other side of the road,. That's not good for a place in that price bracket. Having said that, folk in the street behind where I used to live had a similar problem and the houses still sold.

puddy

good point, i didnt clock that before, there are also few wall cupboards

googler

"Prepping thoroughly" to my mind includes

Removing the bunting
Clearing clutter - the tray on top of the cooker, the pink thing at the side of the pair of appliances
Tidying the desk - tidying the books into a neat pile, and not having the picture looking as thought it's been discarded at the edge of the desk
Picking up the white thing to the right of the armchair, and the loose cushions lying around
Moving the flowers so we can SEE the stove and the fireplace
Putting all the loose jewellery on the dressing table away
Cleaning everything that the EA wants to photograph in close-up (shower head, for instance)

and

For the EA not to photograph doorframes and window frames, and certainly not edges of the scaffolding next door, nor the car under a cover 2 doors down. The scaffolding and the covered-up car put me off straight away.


"So, we have just dropped the price from £330k to £317.5k - we started at £330k as this was the top end of the two quotes we got."

Why on earth, in the current market, start at the TOP end of the range? Surely you must realise that all over the place, houses are selling for less than they would have done a few years, ago, and prices are still going down....?

Anyone who viewed when it was £330k now thinks it was overpriced and has gone elsewhere. They may have bought elsewhere at £310k - £315k - if you'd been at your current price then, they might have bought yours.....

Will someone be phoning round all the previous viewers to tell them about the price change?

China2

I know its already been mentioned but after looking through the photos, the only thing that sticks in my mind is the weird bunting. You really need pictures without it as i'm sure some potential viewers will be the same rather than focusing on the rest of the house.

DannyboyMidlands

Definitely price (£300k seems top of the market, 2007 price for that street) and I can't see that your small reduction will make any difference. If buyers were interested at this level then it is easilly within offering distance of the initial price.

People are aware that agents over-value in order to win the instruction so are probably just waiting for the price to get realistic. For 300 grand I'd want a whole lot more space upstairs. I suspect that the lack of floor plan is trying to disguise this issue but as you are finding, just leads to disappointed viewers.

Having said that, I'd overlook most problems in order to aquire a shower head like that.

eira

Agree about the kitchen comment.My sister is currently in the process of house hunting and she keeps on focusing on bathrooms and kitchens on the grounds that these would cost the most money to revamp/replace all other things being equal. I like the kitchen (loved the garden) but do think the freestanding units would put a lot of people off and get them thinking about costs of new units. Shots of bathroom need to give a clearer picture about layout/storage.Presume the showerhead picture is to show it's a 'proper' one but does seem a bizarre inclusion !
Also was the tv in front of a window ??

Good luck