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  • DominicJ wrote: »
    Dannyboy

    Apples and oranges, or apples and coats for that matter
    Your comparing a 25 year old private with an 80 year old ex council at the end there.

    The two that are the same price (give or take) are from the same development, but are half the size.
    Which I suppose is something that needs to be made clearer

    Well me and everybody else buying houses in the area.

    The single viewing only is down to price not photos.
  • c_denise
    c_denise Posts: 40 Forumite
    Hi there ,

    Just my thoughts , when the house has been decluttered, take a few snap shots of the room in different angles so that you know which gives you the best shot. Maybe include fresh flowers when you take the pic.

    Looking at the pic, there's a bare bulb maybe get / borrow a small lampshade.
  • tesuhoha
    tesuhoha Posts: 17,971 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    Well, someone said an elderly person might like the fireplace. I am 60 and I don't like it at all - it is so dated.

    The fireplace would put me off more than anything. Cat litter trays can easily be removed and the house cleaned.
    The forest would be very silent if no birds sang except for the birds that sang the best






  • Gingernutty
    Gingernutty Posts: 3,769 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    There isn't much I can add to what's gone before, really except that a BUNGALOW doesn't have an upstairs.

    As well as clearing out/hiding the clutter, taking more and better photographs, doing a wee bit of gardening (that weird stump of a hedge in the front garden needs to go for starters) - it needs to be redescribed as a three bedroom detached HOUSE.

    It stopped being a bungalow when it acquired stairs............

    Stone cladding? Inside?? Seriously??? Wow!
    :huh: Don't know what I'm doing, but doing it anyway... :huh:
  • caeler
    caeler Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    Somebody posted some links, look at the second one, that is a property that had been tidied to sell. The first link has clearly had alot of work and money spent whereas link two just goes to show how clean and tidy can improve matters no end.
  • phoebe1989seb
    phoebe1989seb Posts: 4,452 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    There isn't much I can add to what's gone before, really except that a BUNGALOW doesn't have an upstairs.

    As well as clearing out/hiding the clutter, taking more and better photographs, doing a wee bit of gardening (that weird stump of a hedge in the front garden needs to go for starters) - it needs to be redescribed as a three bedroom detached HOUSE.

    It stopped being a bungalow when it acquired stairs............

    Doesn't that make it a *chalet* bungalow? ;)
    Mortgage-free for fourteen years!

    Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed
  • cte1111
    cte1111 Posts: 7,390 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    In general, the house looks small, cramped and dated. Other people have covered most of what needs doing, e.g. declutter, tidy up the outside as well as the inside, take better photos. You say that this is bigger than other properties, frankly it doesn't look from the exterior photo that you could get a much smaller 3 bed. This photo is the first impression so needs changing ASAP.

    I would also consider adding photos of the views as this could be a real selling point. Try and take photos of the garden that don't show the neighbour's conifers as these make me think that the nice views would be obstructed by these.
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