Help please, why are we not getting viewers?

Meadows

Curb Appeal is the first start, many people will dismiss on photographs alone, some will drive by but dismiss and not view so you need to make the property look appealing from the outside in!

You need to spend a little to make a property look nice enough to get the buyers in.

Start with a coat or two of fence paint to brighten up that communal fence on your side, a few bright plants in the garden and maybe a front gate.

Due to the positioning of both beds it makes it look like the rooms are small and not big enough for the size of beds in them (try rearranging the furniture to make them look better).

Move the (pine coloured) drawers out of the bathroom they make it look cramped.

The carpet in the Sitting/Living room is too dated you want plain and neutral (an investment of a few £100's would make the room look better).

Why so few photographs of the house when many rooms listed but not shown (makes you wonder what you are hiding by not showing them!)

Five Bedrooms
Entrance Porch
Living Room
Dining Room
Kitchen
Utility Room

WC

Cellar Chamber One
Cellar Chamber Two
Chamber Three
Study
Bathroom
Loft Space

aggypanthus

I agree that the focus on the 11 bed potential and massive potential rental income is bizzare and sounds like a desparate sales pitch by your agent! gives the impression that its in a run down studenty area.
More pictures. change carpets. put your massive pine wardrobes in storage, move beds.
Nice house tho! I like it.

RAS

You might even get away with a LARGE plain coloured rug that covers a lot of the sitting room carpet, as long asd the colour matches with the carpet.

mrsmchapman

One positive ....the kitchen..

I can't comment on the price, however I have just sold a house at this price after two weeks on the market, and I have to say they couldn't be further apart in terms of presentation.

I personally feel your house looks either like a student let or a rental accommodation, it doesn't doesn't look like a lived in home! I think with just a few changes it could be lots better, I.e the red carpet, change to neutral or flooring, will make it look lots bigger and neutral. However things like this don't bother me on viewing they do to others. The deccription is all over the place, the photos well they are terrible, I would ask for these to be re-done ASAP. Where is the outside space?? No picture! Does that mean its in a bit of a mess?? It's not 5 bed house, it's a 4 bed with loft space, so I believe it should be marketed to that.

mummyroysof3

I think you need more pictures and agree with a lot of what's been said already. Why is it being marketed as an 11 bedroom let rather than a large family home?

Fire_Fox

Where is the garden? Looks studenty/ grandma and photos don't do size justice: can see more of furniture and bad soft furnishings than lovely room features. Upstairs windows look low to the ground like a young person could come crashing through the glass.

Beds are in really strange positions: paint the pine wardrobes or downscale them. Carpets in several rooms are terrible, could you replace or sand and varnish the floorboards?

Kitchen is lovely. Bathrooms are bare and the storage units looks awful cramped in next to the toilet like you could not 'relax'. Get some storage up on the bare wall above the bath or radiator. Some bright coloured towels/ mats/ paint/ pictures to cheer the place up and make it look homely.

There are various loft and cellar 'spaces' being used as bedrooms, are they legally converted for use as such with full building regs? Does the place have HMO registration, how much would it cost to convert if not? Is there a shortage of/ demand for large student houses locally? Three large bedrooms plus two baths on the first floor would make most sense. Could only have two bedrooms on the ground floor with a bath/ shower instead of the utility, then presumably the washing machine in the little cellar space. You could have two beds in the cellar IF there is proper fire access and windows, that is not clear. People would not want to share four to a shower rooms in the basement, the residents would be constantly disturbed.

You can't let a house with tiny single bedrooms but not enough bathrooms and no communal living area, students want somewhere to study and/ or relax either in their room or together. It's maximum eight bedrooms for letting. If a buyer were going to do a mega HMO conversion it may as well be made into flats. Either present and market it as a five bedroom family home OR as a multiple bedroom student let. IMO it doesn't have enough kitchen or bathroom space for an eleven bed student place, that is an absolute joke.

phoebe1989seb

Presentation-wise it's awful - sorry!

It definitely comes across as either a tenanted or empty (and thus unloved) property.

The kitchen, whilst having potential to be good, seems to be let down by cheap looking units (nice baskets though!) and the bathroom fixtures appear very cheap/nasty. They could both be dressed to look more inviting though.

None of the features are being shown to maximise their potential and there should be more pics - of garden, remaining rooms etc. All rooms requiring presenting/dressing for sale - at the moment it looks as though tenants have moved out and the EA has come straight round to take some pretty terrible pics Kerb-appeal is lacking at the moment - some attention needs to be paid to drawing potential purchasers in and actually getting them over the threshold........your house needs to stand out amongst the competition.

LottieLou

aggypanthus wrote: »

I agree that the focus on the 11 bed potential and massive potential rental income is bizzare and sounds like a desparate sales pitch by your agent! gives the impression that its in a run down studenty area.

I agree, I am house hunting in Manchester, and I just couldn't understand why emphasis was placed upon the scope to convert into an 11 bed as I doubt highly that there is a demand for such a large rental/house share in its location. If the house were in, for example, fallowfield, withington, didsbury etc it would be a different story!

I think you have got some really good advice. On a positive note your kitchen worktops are nice, but I agree with previous comments it doesn't look lived in/like a home at all. Do you sleep with the beds that way?

demontfort

Simple answer it's OVERPRICED

On the one hand it's a decent house with plenty of room but on the other your're effectively trying to shift a glorified 3 bed terrace (plus box room and loft conversion) in a drab part of Stockport for the thick end of a quarter of a milion. For just £100k more you'd be looking at similar properties in parts of East and South London so asking that kind of money in a depressed northern mill town in the middle of a recession is madness.

As for rental potential of £3575 when converted to 11 bedrooms that's just pie in the sky :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Errata

OP is the house your tenanted property because everything seems to scream 'vacant'? To be brutal, sorry, it looks grim at best and gruesome at worst.