why can't we sell?!

DoubleOhScrimp

House looks very nice from pics. Must the the price thats the problem.

EDIT: When I see things like ***SUBSTANTIAL PRICE REDUCTION*** in the text alarm bells go off. Would make me wonder if their something wrong e.g. subsidence or its just overpriced.

EDIT2: First picture is highly un-flattering.

Dan-Dan

googler wrote: »

There's only been 4 sales in your street in 2010, 11, 12 and 13.

Either hardly anyone wants to buy in your particular street, or hardly anyone is buying in the area generally.

Or it`s such a nice place to live , no one wants to move away

moneyistooshorttomention

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Or it`s such a nice place to live , no one wants to move away

That's rather what I was thinking.

I can think of several roads where very few people move unless they no longer need a house iyswim (ie a "move upstairs" so to say..).

One is the road my parents' house is in and those houses rarely come on the market unless the owner has died.

Another is the road I am moving to now myself and a couple of roads going up from it. The only sales I've noticed in those roads over the months I have been watching them from afar are because the owner has died or I've spotted a couple of others that are happening with extreme reluctance (eg one of the houses that sold there recently was up for sale only because of employers posting the owners job so far away that he simply couldn't commute that distance any longer...but he was most upset to be having to sell like that because of something that wasn't his choice).

A couple of others (in my current area) are where "dream houses" by my standard are. I don't know the circumstances of when they come up...but its rare and, if you'd seen the surrounding views and know they have some pretty strong "protection" in place against marauding developers:D then you'd see why. If I could have afforded one of them I might very well not be moving from the area (ahem....£450,000-£500,000 touch....ouch!).

So, it is the case that when there is a road like that that you just have to "pounce and grab" fast because they rarely come up.

Dan-Dan

Thats how we feel , the house we have nearly bought , they come up in a plot of 16 , so rare that i think there has only been 3 sales in the last 10 years , i think it possibly is a good point , especially if you know the area as we are lucky enough to

I_have_spoken

Silly pricing, 'offers over' £1 less than tax band. That 1st pic is awful, I took what appears to be a sheet of paper in front window as repo notice. And what looks like a lot of moss and damp around drain pipe.

Plus what what is going on with the shrubs around deck?

In the current market anyone who can get a deposit together will be looking at 3 bed

2 beds are really the domain of BTL LL who'll be pricing based on rental yield.

Plus market in Scotland is slow due to risk of independence, if I was a FTB I'd hold off for 12 months.

Riggster

Too expensive.

newbutold

Mojisola wrote: »

Definitely get a floor plan. I tend to skip over the ones without one.

I second this.

mrshightower

Thanks so much everyone. Read all this out to hubby and we'll make some changes to our listing. We aren't having that much bother actually getting viewers but maybe we'll get some more if we make some small changes :-) Fingers crossed.

pawpurrs

I would say you are struggling for viewers at only ten in a whole year, tbh, thats not even one a month, speaking to scottish friends, the whole offers over isnt working anymore, even in edinburgh and fast moving places, every one offers what they want. Good luck selling isnt much fun, suppose i should tidy up, a viewer about to descend!