30 viewings, no offers

pinkshoes

The thing that would put me off is the size of both bedrooms, as they're both very small, and a double bed would take up over half the room. Where do you put the chest of drawers for your clothes??? is it a big built in wardrobe?


For £5k less, you can find a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in the city centre, and I also found a 2 bed terrace house in Cleeveland Street for £164,995, which had a big garden, 2 decent sided double bedrooms, and much bigger kitchen:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-15119530.rsp?pa_n=8&tr_t=buy

I don't know Cheltenham, but from the details on Rightmove, I'd say your property is overpriced, and for those wanting to spend £170k on a property, they can get alot more space for their money from other properties!

Alanland

pinkshoes wrote: »

For £5k less, you can find a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment in the city centre, and I also found a 2 bed terrace house in Cleeveland Street for £164,995, which had a big garden, 2 decent sided double bedrooms, and much bigger kitchen:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-15119530.rsp?pa_n=8&tr_t=buy

I don't know Cheltenham, but from the details on Rightmove, I'd say your property is overpriced, and for those wanting to spend £170k on a property, they can get alot more space for their money from other properties!

I think apartments are competition for us. Definitely more space for your money and can be decent locations, so I am relying on people who don't want to live in one (I would never do so again, and maintainence costs can be through the roof in a lovely town like this).
Also the property you mention on Cleeveland Street, many people would not consider living round there, you just have to go a few streets away from mine and you downgrade a lot in area. It's all about postcode round here. People who are not buying mine may be compromising on location to get more space.

EA came round today and helped us with declutter ideas (nothing that you guys didn't mention). I'm afraid the green kitchen is going to have to go - well, if it goes, I go!

amcluesent

>well, if it goes, I go!<

You need to look at the house 100% objectively now, and only consider what will make it saleable not what is your personal taste.

I wonder, if you have been showing people around, if you have been speaking in a way that suggests you have no real intention of selling? Just a thought...

chardonnay_2

Alanland wrote: »

I'm afraid the green kitchen is going to have to go - well, if it goes, I go!

you've got the right attitude, you remove your feelings from the house and furniture. you can redecorate your new house with the current colours if you like. at least whatever you pack up just now you won't have to pack up when you move.

Alanland

amcluesent wrote: »

>well, if it goes, I go!<

You need to look at the house 100% objectively now, and only consider what will make it saleable not what is your personal taste.

I wonder, if you have been showing people around, if you have been speaking in a way that suggests you have no real intention of selling? Just a thought...

I am almost always out for viewings and leave that to estate agent. Last thing the buyer needs is me and a baby is an already compact house. Also, rather than showing no real intention of selling, I'm afraid I will actually throw my arms around the legs of my potential buyers and shout "please don't leave me!" as they hurry to the door!
Also, while on the subject of colours of rooms and stuff, this is how the house was when I bought it, green kitchen was already there and its warm friendly glow was something I was looking forward to when I was planning to move in. So while I like my house, there's not much of me in it really, ironically, I would be too scared to try painting walls anything other than cream/magnolia!

xela_17

Alanland wrote: »

Also, things have moved on a bit from the way they look in the photos. The courtyard looks better anyway and I've now taken people's advice on clearing up the living room. You've all found so many things wrong with the photos, I wonder what more horrors people are finding when they actually get here!

I don't think the price is the problem as I agree with a previous poster - a too high price means no viewers, not 34! There must be another reason.

Since you have improved the house you (or EA) should take new photos to put on rightmove to reflect this.

Also had a thought about your kitchen photo. Saw in the details that the kitchen has a door to the garden. Perhaps you could try and take the picture from the other end of the room so as to include the door in the picture. Currently, the kitchen looks quite closed in and claustrophobic. Including the door might make it a look a little more open.

I echo the question of a previous poster - has anyone come back a second time?

gonzosbro

Change agents, you have nothing to lose. Alternatively let it out, and use any equity in the house as your deposit for your next house.

tomstickland

29 have said house is too small

That's my thoughts too, for the price.

I think alot of 2 bed flats will offer more living space. I know the location and it's good for the centre of town. I used to know someone who lived a little bit further out in a 2 bed terraced house and it was actually deceptively roomy inside.

Every FTB I know has bought a house that needs work, so the "lifestyle" stuff isn't always necessary. Having said that, paint over the Green kitchen and then declutter. Half a day's work and it'll look better IMO. Maybe borrow a friend or relative's garage to store things in?

billigmeister

Alan

Just happens that my wife viewed the property this week.

I don't think it is that off the mark in terms of price maybe £5K or something and obviously it isn't a great big place but people know that before they look.

We were looking cos we are putting ours on market and it is a fairly similar sort of place and were checking the market out (so would not be real buyers as such). However the one thing we can tell you is that the estate agent taking my wife round (she doesn't remember her name), was really not a nice person and extremely pushy. Even though my wife said she wasn't interested in it she still asked "So will you be putting in an offer then?", just an unpleasant and cold estate agent. Even called the next day to check if we wanted to put an offer in. Pushy estate agents don't tend to warm people to a house.

Perhaps it was a one off but she was like it on other viewings we had with her.

Thought had best share our thoughts

good luck with sale

billigmeister

any further luck alan?