Opinions on my house please? No viewings..

RedfordML

Dan-Dan wrote: »

what price are comparable properties in the area up for , and more imprortantly , selling for ?
The house itself looks lovely and looked after
Dont forget it`s a slow time of year (summer holiday period)

Not where we are, two properties, obv different areas will have different recovery rates etc, (luck also) sold within 2 weeks on same estate.

Price will always be the factor here. House looks nice, down stairs looks lovely and light, upstairs a little darker...gl

vic_sf49

Everything looks new/fresh, so there'd be little for the new owners to do, it's all very livable and homely. The paint scheme may not be to everyone's taste, but then neither is beige; that would not stop me buying a house.

And as for not having a wrinkle free bed as a few people have suggested....are they serious....do they live in the real world? I'd ignore those comments.

My one suggestion would be a narrower table in the kitchen. Does something exist that's similar in width to a breakfast bar, or a smidge bigger?

Good luck with your sale.

OP2011

Hi there.

The house looks lovely and could look even better.

If we assume for now the price is right then these are really the nit picky things that are the fine tune from a ever so slightly ocd'er.

Not meant to be rude at all.

Some people will see dimensions and postcode others will see just the walls and the bleach left out. This tries to cover all bases.

Outside : sunlight to front if possible.

Side garden shot is lovely - perhaps a small bistro table & 2 chairs on clearing next to stepping stones.

Kitchen : clear windowsills, remove drainer, tagine & pan rack/stand (it could look like it may make cupboard door awkward and gives impression of not enough storage for pans)

Close door to lounge.

If funds permit, a small corner or L shape sofa would possibly look neater in lounge.
Rug out.
Only 1 or 2 ornaments on mantle piece.

Repaint all feature walls in house neutral.

Paint all ceilings/beams that are not white.

Spare room remove open wardrobe and all clutter. Bed in. Small side table/s and lamp/s in.

Master is a great room. Take out tall shelf unit. Bed to centre. Rug out. Compact side tables in.

Sofa out. Neat chair in (between windows, small tub chair?)
Turn alcove into vanity / dressing table area. Possibly deep low shelf / worktop (cheap option) or a dressing table?

Shower room ; all clutter out. Bleach & Loo rolls out. Mirror off - flat one on, pref above sink. (You have prob already taken off the loo sticker )

Then all new photos.

Work out the dressing costs as a percentage of the asking price - usually only couple of percent does it - the time and energy are the bug bears

Hope this helps. And good luck with the sale.

kellyt86

Desperado99 wrote: »

The only thing that struck me was the double bed being pushed up against the window, it kind off says that there isn't really enough room in that bedroom.

I thought this also, although it looks like you could have room to move it so room to get in bed from both sides.

Also agree that second bedroom doesn't look very big from photos so maybe 'dressing' it like a bedroom would help?

I also think lack of bath would put me off, personally I'd prefer a shower over bath kinda thing.

However I think it's overall a really nice house with nice decoration. Could just be the slow moving time of year?

Good luck

JustAnotherSaver

As FTBs (& probably falling into the trap of what looks nice in photos rather than giving a place a proper chance) i'd say your photos seriously need redoing. Some of them are so dark they may as well not be there (IMO).

Don't mean to sound harsh, but you want the room to look bright, not dark.

tim123456789

witchy1066 wrote: »

I agree with tim, it looks much nicer than the houses we have looked at for that price

its not just the NE that hasn't seen a recovery,
my area of S Wales is moving slowly but it seems to be the really cheap doer uppers that are selling but nobody seems to want to drop prices for the nicer ones , perhaps they know something I don't

recovery is just around the corner :rotfl:

gazter

tim123456789 wrote: »

recovery is just around the corner :rotfl:

Recovery has already happened in most of the country. Depending on where you are, property prices are across the UK as a whole, where they were in the summer of 2006. Which was the height of a sustained eleven year property boom.

For many areas of the UK, prices havent got back to 2006, but even there, with the exception of a few pockets, they are back to where they were in 2005, ten years into a property boom.

uk_american

As a singleton with a 1 bed, I am currently looking at 2 beds. Price questions not considered, but from the colour/layout perspective...

-any chance to move the sofa from the bedrm into the green room, replacing the brown playpod thing (or whatever these are called in the UK?)

-then, a chair in its place in the master bedrm, it would make a lovely reading area.

-Not fond of too much colour, but not a beige person either. The purple and everything else would be fine, but having only 1 colour scheme per room would be ideal. The blue in the master plus the red rug is distracting. Stow the rugs under the bed and it would be perfect.

-I'm not so fond of the kitchen tiles (again, that multi-colour thing), so would replace the photo with the refrigerator (keep the cooker photo, lovely cooker!), with a full garden photo. I think the grass in the background of your current garden photo is yours too?

For a single person--assuming affordable--this could be a lovely house.

witchy1066

tim123456789 wrote: »

recovery is just around the corner :rotfl:

I hope not , or we will be chasing rainbows forever :rotfl:

houseimprover

19lottie82 wrote: »

Photos look fine, so must be down to price.

Renovations don't always add the value people think they do.

Also right move shows a well presented 3 bed, 0.3 miles from yours for £95k?

Pictures look quite dark to me, doesn't show the potential well.