Just tell me if there is something wrong...

MamaMoo_2

If you don't get far with the EA, you're at least surrounded by them. Personally, I'd say avoid the EA you're with (know friends who've had bad experiences), and avoid Scrivens (previous dealings with them = they were useless) and I can highly recommend both Lex Allan Grove and White and Billingham. White and Billingham especially go above and beyond IME when my friend was selling.

Okydoky25

I personally would prefer a semi. Looking at your area I instantly found this

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30141702?search_identifier=bb948f3f26f23d6fc4dc96320bca2139

No Chain. No personal decoration. Semi with a Garage.

halesowenmum

Okydoky25 wrote: »

I personally would prefer a semi. Looking at your area I instantly found this

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30141702?search_identifier=bb948f3f26f23d6fc4dc96320bca2139

No Chain. No personal decoration. Semi with a Garage.

Thanks, agree it's a nice house too. Smaller rooms and nearly £4k more... so it's horses for courses on style of house as well. If were where I needed it to be and much much less money, I'd buy it myself!! I'm not in the market for a house anywhere near that much though unfortunately. :cool:

ash28

I think you need to ask the EA what other recently sold properties achieved against asking price......

Your price seems a pretty big increase in price from 2010 - even if you did get the house below valuation...according to the Land Registry house prices fell in your area through most of 2011 and 2012.

This one is just a couple of doors away from you and has sold.....it has a garage and driveway parking for 2 cars....it looks like a decent sized garden....the house is nice.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42392423.html?premiumA=true

It went up for sale in July and was priced at about £160k then dropped to about £150k and then to £140k and it sold...it could have been for less than £140k....who knows....it was sold for £125k in 2007.

Although different to your house, it does have a garage (with potential to extend above and probably behind) and potential to extend upwards into the loft and the house next door has done and judging from the size of the back garden outwards too.

It looks as if the average time on the market for properties where you are is typically 8 or so months.......

I don't know how much research you did before you put your house on the market but when we sold 2 years ago I did loads and then when we got the EAs in I went with the one who brought details of other properties they had sold along with the asking prices and achieved prices - they also showed us details of houses they had valued where the vendor had gone with a higher valuation and the majority of those houses were still on the market when we were moving out of ours....

Mallotum_X

Nice looking house, but the photos make the rooms look small, and a few too many from odd angles. The garden would be better turfed which could be a quick fix, plus the garden photo isnt great - try taking your own photos and get the agent to use them as they are clearly trying to be too clever.

The rooms are quite stylish and may not be to everyones tastes, so I would consider toning down the colours a little bit.

But if no viewers at all then its probably down to price unfortunately. How long have you lived there and what did you pay?

witchy1066

sorry OP i have just done a price valuation search for your property and as lovely as your house is it does seem to be overpriced by around 10K ,

average value in your road is 150k

it does seem its down to price ,

I_have_spoken

Immediate reaction -

+ Poor kerb appeal from pic 1
+ I had to to a lot of reading to find it was the mid-terrace
+ EA keeps blowing it's SPACIOUS - but there's no floorplan!
+ Kitchen - appears to be no seating for breakfast. Not the best layout with sink-cooker-fridge all strung out
+ Lounge - laminate divides opinion, personally not for mein lounge. All black looks puts me off too. Could do with some flowers to soften the decor
+ back garden, disappointing it's so bare and tatty, bark = cat toilet. No pic of outside shed and rear access.
+ Kiddies rooms - says house is short of storage space with boxes push under beds
+ Master bed - personally I's be put off by sloping ceilings, everything stuffed into those translucent drawers says no built-in storage, e.g. shoes piled in corner. Master bedroom looks small TBH.
+ Pics are all jumbled up , can't tell which bathroom is family and which is en-suite
+ Streetview isn't every appealing, looks like new block on edge of council estate, I'd be worried about insecure car parking
+ Union jack bedspreads may put of viewers , re-photo without

I'd say 40% poor presenation, 60% overpriced

halesowenmum

ash28 wrote: »

I think you need to ask the EA what other recently sold properties achieved against asking price......

Ash, there aren't really any recently sold properties - the market's been almost totally inactive!!! That goes for a lot of areas. The market has bee stagnant. And repeatedly on here people are trying to compare small cramped semi's which (if I was looking at them for the most part I'd want to replace kitchen and bathroom) with this spacious 2.5 storey home (and we know some of that is due to the pics - in fact, actually, quite a lot of it!!) which needs virtually nothing doing to it.

Your price seems a pretty big increase in price from 2010 - even if you did get the house below valuation...according to the Land Registry house prices fell in your area through most of 2011 and 2012.

This one is just a couple of doors away from you and has sold.....it has a garage and driveway parking for 2 cars....it looks like a decent sized garden....the house is nice.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42392423.html?premiumA=true

It went up for sale in July and was priced at about £160k then dropped to about £150k and then to £140k and it sold...it could have been for less than £140k....who knows....it was sold for £125k in 2007. I absolutely do not discount the fact that the price may need reducing, but once again, don't shoot the messenger. The original price of £160k was set by EA#1, not by me! It was ME that reduced it to £156.

Although different to your house, it does have a garage (with potential to extend above and probably behind) and potential to extend upwards into the loft and the house next door has done and judging from the size of the back garden outwards too. Yes, but this house is already 'extended into the loft", isn't it!!

It looks as if the average time on the market for properties where you are is typically 8 or so months.......

I don't know how much research you did before you put your house on the market but when we sold 2 years ago I did loads and then when we got the EAs in I went with the one who brought details of other properties they had sold along with the asking prices and achieved prices - they also showed us details of houses they had valued where the vendor had gone with a higher valuation and the majority of those houses were still on the market when we were moving out of ours....

You know what, I guess a lot of EAs are just bl**dy lazy. Pluck a price out of the air regardless of its achievability and lure poor people like me onto trying to sell, and thinking that they can buy the smaller more affordable house nearer to their kids school that they've found - when actually, maybe, the achievable price may not even be even vaguely realistic (the price they told you, not the price I set). Factor in a mortgage company who I am trying to port with who have strung me along since AUGUST when I first started off re-mortgage enquiries, telling me I could have a mortgage of £86k and equity release of £15-20k who only a week or two ago, after I went forward to offer on a property needing a good £12k expenditure to all its problems, now tell me I can only have £65k and £6k equity!!!!! It's not far til the end of October now! I think they have dragged their feet and treated me appallingly not least since I already have a +£91k mortgage with them which I have paid in exemplary fashion for the last 6 years - which apparently means nothing. So I don't even know if I can even afford to move - great eh. A culmination of two bodies TOTALLY failing to do their jobs properly, setting what may be totally unrealistic asking prices and failing to manage the simple porting of a mortgage effectively... I do wish they would realise that moving house isn't just about asking prices, sq footage and room sizes. It's about families trying to keep going and do the best they can. As a single parent the pressure's even more on and I have to now wait and see what . i do resent having been mislead into looking at selling on the basis they told me, and now being told a totally different story after months have passed by, and how do I recompense the £400+ it cost for the survey and valuation i had done on the house (lower price) I was told I could afford and now am told I can't! So much for the kid's Xmas presents this year. At one point I thought I could buy a lovely, cosy, smaller house and release some equity to make it really really nice and pay off a couple of debts, the next after months of stringing it out I'm told quite the opposite. I ABSOLUTELY agree with due diligence by lenders (shame they didn't think of this a few years ago when their greed led them to offer 120% mortgages to people, the logic of which is beyond comprehension) so that now, me, who has paid in exemplary fashion every single payment since she got divorced in 2007, without fail, but when I already have a +£91k mortgage with the same lender, it all seems just a bit OTT.

halesowenmum

witchy1066 wrote: »

sorry OP i have just done a price valuation search for your property and as lovely as your house is it does seem to be overpriced by around 10K ,

average value in your road is 150k Witchy, there are THREE houses on my road - total - ha ha!" That's not much of an' average' is it - in what time period? - did the other two houses sell in the last 3-6 months. No, they didn't. The neighbours have been here longer than I have!

it does seem its down to price ,

[COLOR="rgb(244, 164, 96)"]How can it be ovepriced by £10k if it's on the market for offers in the region of £156k? My maths is appalling but that conclusion just doesn't add up[/COLOR]

Lord_Baltimore

I don't feel that 7 weeks on the market is that long tbh. You might get a dozen viewings next month...who can say?

I wouldn't do anything until the first quarter of next year. Your house looks fine to me; when we decide to sell, we all expect it to happen the next day and it just takes time. Good luck.