Need advice - want to move ASAP!

Mojisola

I'm not surprised you haven't had many viewings - the photos don't make the house look good. Didn't you go through and declutter before the photographer came?

Does the house have a garden? (I see it has a yard - why no photo?)

Streetview shows piles of rubbish!

The third bedroom is very small. If people are looking at renting by the room, they may not get anyone willing to live in such a tiny room so the house is virtually a two-bed as far as investors are concerned.

If you redressed the house so that the downstairs front room was a bedroom and the smallest bedroom a study, there would be more potential.

Where is the bathroom? Why isn't there a photo?

egoode

As you are likely to get investors looking to rent to students then show the front reception room as an additional bedroom. I'm assuming the bathroom is the blue room on the 1st floor if so is it really accessed via another bedroom? That would be a complete no-no for a shared house. If that's not the case get a better floor plan also include the dimensions on the actual floor plan I hate having to read all the descriptions just for room dimensions. Also there's no details on how big/small the yard is so that should also be included.

gwynlas

hi, Sorry but you need to seriously declutter and remove as much as possible of personal belongings. take down the hot water bottle! Start sorting out as though you are moving, box things up and store in loft or wherever. Bedding needs to match on twin beds. State if you need to go through any rooms to get to another or if there is versatility to use ground floor room as bedroom. Do not make up reception room as bedroom that would put other buyers off. Yard should be courtyard with a couple of pots planted up becomes courtyard garden. Watch make over shows etc.

pinkshoes

Photos 3,5 and 7 are really odd!

The photo of the living room makes it look tiny.

These are clearly not taken by a professional, so you'll be better off decluttering and taking your own, or get a friend with a decent camera to take some.

RAS

Going to be mean here but you really need to think about the layout and pictures.

Photos taken on a drear day in January means the whole interior looks drab. You need some taken on a sunny day.

De-clutter - the hot water bottle, the cupboard door that cannot even close because of all the stuff in it.

No sign on any radiators, just gas fires? The door snake says freezing cold.

Being unable to get into the bathroom without going into a "bedroom" that is painly too small for a bed? No photo of that bedroom either?

Layout of the downstairs rooms is dire. The table needs to be in the room and it needs to be well laid and attractive.

It reads as old, cold and cramped as well as outdated and worn out.

if there is a yard, that needs a piccie and to look attractive.

Kynthia

This house in your road achieved £165k but look at how they've customised it for the student rental market.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=44732471&sale=51273092&country=england

They've marketed the downstairs front reception room as a bedroom, but they've split the front bedroom into two, made the rear bedroom a bathroom and moved the door from the existing bathroom to the landing. To an investor it makes it a four bed house with two bathrooms, which will be popular with student renters and financially a good buy. Another that sold for £180k also split the front bedroom but got rid of the upstairs bathroom (making the back bedroom bigger) and built a shower room in the lounge. So this is a four bed house with two reception rooms, again making it popular with renters and therefore investors.

As investors will need to have your back bedroom as a study, your place is a three bed, one reception room and one small bathroom house which isn't as good. They'll want to do work which means they'll want to pay a lower purchase price.

Rinzler

Thanks for the suggestions! We have decreased to price to 160k which I think is fair. We are going to do serious declutter of the house, redecorate to neutral colours, make the back room into a study room, and make the front room into a bedroom. We will then retake the photos showing the bathroom and garden. Just to let you know the bathroom is not accesbile by the bedroom, this was done wrong. There is a door for it.

Any more suggesions would be greatly appreciated!

Cheeky_Monkey

So you have had the house on the market for 6 months and you haven't bothered to get the EA to correct the floor plan.

I'm not surprised you have had hardly any interest. A lot of people will have discounted it on the basis of the floor plan alone. Why should they have to guess where the bathroom is??

Also, it says that it has central heating and I can't see a single radiator. Are they hiding behind furniture?

plumfin

Those pics are awfully unflattering and don't do the house any favours at all. It looks like a student house, to be honest, and fro what you say, it clearly isn't (yet!). Get some more pics taken. No pics of the bathroom either and the all the pics look as if the EA stood at each door and just pointed the camera randomly. Would seriously ask for more for what they will charge you on £160K sale. Sorry to be so damning, but hope it helps.

Gigervamp

If the bathroom is not accessed through the bedroom, then that needs to be rectified in the details, as that would put me off viewing straight away.