selling house - when to start worrying? UPDATED x2 (pg. 3)

Clearlier

Just seeing this thread now. The photos are terrible. I actually got a headache just looking at them. I don't think that there's a single one in focus and the resolution is too low. With high resolution auto focus cameras available for very little there's simply no excuse for the EA to do such a bad job. Incidentally the 4 bed across the road isn't much better and their description is much worse.

If the one across the road isn't selling after a year then you're almost certainly pricing too high.

abaxas

nat38 wrote: »

neither, that would be the max we'd like to lose (so to be fair, it is not a real minimum, we could sell for 50k but would be losing way too much). fortunately, we are in a position where we can move without selling. we thought if it doesn't sell we could try renting it out, but it might be even more difficult. what would you do?

The question is how much you bought it for. You never 'lose' money on asking price, you only lose it sells for less than you bought it for.

Remembering that since your current home has gone down in value, the next 'rung' up will have gone down even more (in pound terms). Things might have acutally become easier and cheaper, even though you have 'lost valuation' on your current house.

nat38

abaxas wrote: »

The question is how much you bought it for. You never 'lose' money on asking price, you only lose it sells for less than you bought it for.

Remembering that since your current home has gone down in value, the next 'rung' up will have gone down even more (in pound terms). Things might have acutally become easier and cheaper, even though you have 'lost valuation' on your current house.

oh, I know, but I bought for100k............
yes, :eek:

anggrrr

I decluttered a lot for my photos and shows. I got three large boxes and scooped a lot of my stuff into them. My bedroom photos still make me laugh, it was like nobody lived there. Clear your bathroom and kitchen surface etc. just for the pictures.

I'd try and get them back to take photos again when the sun is shining and I don't understand why they are so out of focus.

electrobix99

Can you ask the EA to change the Order of the pics. I think the inside is the selling point as it looks a really nice size.

The view of the house outside is not so great - or get them to take a better picture where it does not look like a housing estate in the USSR.

I really like your living room / dining room and how it opens into the garden. I think you can go too far with removing all personal things in a house so do not go overboard. People have to be able to imagine themselves living there but they also have to imagine that someone does/can live there too.

nat38

electrobix99 wrote: »

Can you ask the EA to change the Order of the pics. I think the inside is the selling point as it looks a really nice size.

The view of the house outside is not so great - or get them to take a better picture where it does not look like a housing estate in the USSR.

I really like your living room / dining room and how it opens into the garden. I think you can go too far with removing all personal things in a house so do not go overboard. People have to be able to imagine themselves living there but they also have to imagine that someone does/can live there too.

USSR :rotfl::rotfl:

I know what you mean about removing too many things though

nat38

well the EA just called - first viewing on Thursday!!:j
any advise/suggestions?

abaxas

Make it look like a home.

sistafromanothermista

:rotfl: @ USSR analogy
I think the most important thing is making sure the house smells nice and is clean.
De-clutter, make the beds and make sure they're 'dressed'.
Imagine seeing it for the first time.

amcluesent

Seems to me that your interior shows middle-class tastes in a property located in a working (or JSA) class area. The Streetview is grim indeed with rows of lock-ups.

Seems an odd thing to say, but you may put off viewers if they think you're 'posh'.

I'd say you need to identify what another £10K-£15K would get you in the area, maybe a property which doesn't look like a military barracks, and then work out what would attract buyers beyond a bargain bucket price.

Is the back garden a decent space to sit-out, with reasonable privacy. We never get to see that, but the front looks rough.

The upstairs pics of the bedrooms are terrible, making it look tiny.

You need to decide if it's really a 3bed and stop being half-hearted about bed/'study' and have a pic with a bed in there.

Yep, it's too cluttered and indeed orange