Nobody wants to buy my house, boohoo!!

JimmyTheWig

Lovely lounge (picture 8 is nicer than picture 2).
Lovely kitchen/diner.
Lovely bathroom.
Bedroom 1 looks lovely in picture 12.
Bedroom 2 looks a decent size.

What I'd change...
* Consider replacing front fence with a pretty picket fence?
* Take front of house photo when the sky is blue, if possible.
* Angle of picture 15 is nicer than angle of picture 1.
* Lose cushions on sofa in picture 2 (or replace with 2 plain ones).
* Paint stripy wall in bedroom 1. Lose picture 4 for now.
* Tidy garden and re-take photo if the fence now all matches, as you say.
* Remove shelf from behind shoes in porch. Lose this picture, anyway.
* Lose picture of the stairs.
* Make picture 8 (lounge) the second picture.
* Re-take picture 9, as it looks a little wonky?
* Lose picture 10 of the landing. Remove exercise bike (leave in car?) for viewings.
* Get a smaller bedside unit for bedroom 3, so it looks like it fits.


I've heard as a general rule, however, if you aren't getting the people in to look then it is normally down to price.

UsernameAlreadyExists

tim123456789 wrote: »

do people really not go and look at a property on the basis of picures of the owners furnituire?

Seems crazy to me

If it was an absolute mess I might understand, but it's pefectly tidy and no-one is going to be buying the ploka-dot cushions so why is having them in a picture a problem?

Which one would you rather have?



I am sure both taste exactly the same when the skin is removed, but it's a lot about marketing, making it appealing, and very much depends what else is on the market at the same time that you're comparing it with.

moneyistooshorttomention

But thats a bit of a different example as to which item we would rather have I think.

I think "so what?" about the vendors furniture myself. As long as there arent trinkets here, trinkets there, trinkets every blinkin' where blinding my vision then I can look straight through the furniture - because it will be going out the door with the vendors when they go.

Probably just as well, as most of the houses I am looking at online are rather too conventionally furnished for me and, often, "old person style" and it's more likely to be the case than not that I have no option but to look straight past their furniture anyway. Me, I'm more focused on all those artexed ceilings, patterned carpets and coloured bathroom suites (now those I do take account of - as I'm mentally adding them to the cost tally of how much it will cost to sort the place out to suit me). To me, it would be luxury to be able to have opinions on something like furniture that really doesnt matter a jot to me and is none of my business anyway and I'd take that any day as compared to studying another house that hasnt been touched since the 1970s (or 80s if I'm lucky) and then another 70s house and then another 70s house and, if I'm really unlucky, then the house hasnt been touched since the 50s or 60s.

Tancred

cazziej wrote: »

I am slightly scared of doing this, as I appreciate that I will get some negative comments, but here goes!

My house has been on the market since the end of September 2012 with House Net Work. It is priced at £107,500. Our street has only 5 houses in it and rarely has any for sale ( the last sale was approximately 10 years ago when the elderly owner died and this is now rented).

A house on the end of our street (but the road is a different one, if you get me, sold in June 2012 for £98,000 after being marketed at £103,000. A similar house to ours has just (last week) come on the market at £95,000 (boo hiss).

The area is very close to Manchester City Centre (within walking distance), and is not the best area, but is also not the worst. We have lived in the property for the past 23 years.

In 4 months we have only had 2 viewings, and these were generated by the "For Sale" board we bought - we actually saw the viewers outside taking the number before getting the call from the Agents.

Please take a look and give me your opinion on anything I can do to increase the chances of a sale, but be gentle with me!! I might add that we are considering reducing the price to £99,950 to see if we can catch "searches up to £100,000". We are also going to try and do something with the back garden as I think this lets the house down a bit.

I "think" this is the link, but it probably won't work, I am not very techy!! If it doesn't perhaps somebody can play around and advise me.

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/19096380?search_identifier=075305ddf2318114d5b2175688947357

Thank you

C

I'm surprised as the house looks decent, other than some garish wallpaper! It does look a bit cluttered, though. I don't think it's overpriced, just that there is little demand at the moment. Try putting a classified ad on eBay.

thequant

Get rid of the union jack duvet, a lot of the ethnics don't like that sort of thing.

DannyboyMidlands

"I don't think it's overpriced, just that there is little demand at the moment"

Eh?

If there is little or no demand for it at the current asking price, isn't that the very definition of overpriced?

JimmyTheWig

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I think "so what?" about the vendors furniture myself.
...
I can look straight through the furniture - because it will be going out the door with the vendors when they go.

While we all know that the furniture won't be staying - and so no-one would make a concious decision about a house based on the furniture - sometimes it is hard to see past it.
When I look at picture 2, for example, I see the cushions on the sofa. I don't think "those cushions look odd, I won't buy that house". But I'll tell you something. I am pretty sure there was a window behind the sofa in that picture. I don't remember what the window looked like. I remember the cushions.
You don't want to distract people from the important bits.

moneyistooshorttomention

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

While we all know that the furniture won't be staying - and so no-one would make a concious decision about a house based on the furniture - sometimes it is hard to see past it.
When I look at picture 2, for example, I see the cushions on the sofa. I don't think "those cushions look odd, I won't buy that house". But I'll tell you something. I am pretty sure there was a window behind the sofa in that picture. I don't remember what the window looked like. I remember the cushions.
You don't want to distract people from the important bits.

You mean as in people doing the visual equivalent of not hearing what I have just said to them (because of being distracted)???. I never cease to be surprised at how I've said something in person to someone and used few words/exactly chosen/totally clear and they then turn out to have heard me say something rather different to what I actually DID say...

Coins new phrase "Most people are only half present in the room most of the time" and would that about sum it up?

EDIT: Just gone back for a quick look at the sitting room photo. On first look, I looked straight out the window to study the view opposite and then looked at the tv, decided the owners of the house will have very different tastes/lifestyle to mine and cricked necks from watching it and I'd have to mentally "blank out" the tv to be able to view the house objectively and duly did so. I didnt even notice the cushions.

JimmyTheWig

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Coins new phrase "Most people are only half present in the room most of the time" and would that about sum it up?

Yes, that sums it up perfectly.

EDIT: Just gone back for a quick look at the sitting room photo. On first look, I looked straight out the window to study the view opposite and then looked at the tv

TV was the second thing I noticed, too - after the cushions!

sinbad182

DannyboyMidlands wrote: »

"I don't think it's overpriced, just that there is little demand at the moment"

Eh?

If there is little or no demand for it at the current asking price, isn't that the very definition of overpriced?

No, not really.