House sale - getting nowhere! Any tips?

getmore4less

If I was searching I would expect to get a discount so if my budget was up to £300k I would be looking up to £350k with an expectation of getting something over £300k down to my budget(maybe not the £350s but £325s .

I suspect anyone looking in the up to £300k is actually keen to get something at £250k and would only consider something special if they were going to pay over £275k.

This will all depend what stock is available in the various ranges.

thestens

Perhaps we need to stop panicking - as Quizzical Squirrel says it hasn't really bee on the market for long and Xmas was in that time. We will sit tight until the current contract with the agent ends and if still no interest try a new agent and reducing the price to £299 950. Still not totally happy with the photos, as the front garden looks a mess (big front, half nearest house has raised beds for strawberries and veggies - looks nice in summer but scruffy now!) We also have chickens in the back garden, but the estate agent has carefully managed to leave their enclosure out of the photos!! We also have a rather overgrown fir tree in the front which we think we will trim back. Don't really want to have to dismantle raised beds and turf it as it will be a biggish job, but do others think that may be worth doing?? You can't see them from the road due to bushes and roadside bit of the front garden is traditional lawn, but the raised beds are evident on one of the Rightmove photos.... Am I getting too stressed about this now???? Husband seems to think so!!

thequant

thestens wrote: »

I am a bit doubtful about putting the link to Rightmove on here, as I have seen some pretty unhelpful comments when others have done that and furniture, etc is so subjective .

But those unhelpful comments will be what your viewers will be thinking. If we say your house is a state, then the chances are it is in a state and that is what your viewers will ben thinking.


As they say the truth hurts, but what's more important your feelings or getting it sold ?

thequant

thestens wrote: »

We have had no viewings. The agent says the hits are about average on Rightmove and the agency's site.
Everyone who sees our house says they love it. We love it


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I wouldn't rely on the opinions of friends and family, I've lost count of the amount of times I have lied to mine about their properties.


When I tell them it is "quaint", I mean I hate it, what the hell made you buy it ?


When I tell them it is "old fashioned", I mean get your hands in your pockets you cheap baskets and get the place updated.


When I tell them it is "cute", I mean, how can anyone live in a place so small ?


If you are getting no viewers, but lots of compliments I suspect that most will be thinly veiled insults.

phoebe1989seb

thestens wrote: »

Perhaps we need to stop panicking - as Quizzical Squirrel says it hasn't really bee on the market for long and Xmas was in that time. We will sit tight until the current contract with the agent ends and if still no interest try a new agent and reducing the price to £299 950. Still not totally happy with the photos, as the front garden looks a mess (big front, half nearest house has raised beds for strawberries and veggies - looks nice in summer but scruffy now!) We also have chickens in the back garden, but the estate agent has carefully managed to leave their enclosure out of the photos!! We also have a rather overgrown fir tree in the front which we think we will trim back. Don't really want to have to dismantle raised beds and turf it as it will be a biggish job, but do others think that may be worth doing?? You can't see them from the road due to bushes and roadside bit of the front garden is traditional lawn, but the raised beds are evident on one of the Rightmove photos.... Am I getting too stressed about this now???? Husband seems to think so!!

I agree with the posters that have said it would be really useful to see the RM link in order to better advise on this......go on, be brave

Grumpelstiltskin

If it's the house I have found ( a tree name ) it looks a little how can I say, in need of a little updating and TLC, the front garden, the first impression could do with some work, a couple of tubs of winter flowering plants would help.

thequant

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

If it's the house I have found ( a tree name ) it looks a little how can I say, in need of a little updating and TLC, the front garden, the first impression could do with some work, a couple of tubs of winter flowering plants would help.

The Willow ? personally I don't think there much wrong with it, although hard to tell as the pictures are small for some reason ?


Although it does appear that the OP is hoping to get £100k on top of the prices being achieved at the peak in an area where prices are still falling.


50% mark-up on peak prices probably explains why no one in your village is able to sell.

Grumpelstiltskin

Agree not the worse house, but at that price if you drove by I think you would carry on driving thinking how much????

thequant

Grumpelstiltskin wrote: »

Agree not the worse house, but at that price if you drove by I think you would carry on driving thinking how much????

Yeah totally,


I'm from that area, and £300k gets you a lot of house. My friends in London don't believe me that in Teesside you can pick up houses for less than £40K until I show them the adverts.

cayennepepper

I disagree with those that say that you can fall off the radar of people with budget up to 300K. I know when I was looking to buy I always looked at properties priced more in the hope I could negotiate and get a bargain.

I agree however that this time of the year is not the best to sell, I had difficulties selling my house last December/January, I think I only had 2 viewings. Took the property off the market, then tried again in the spring at £50K more (different agent) and had 3 offers within a couple of weeks.

Lowering the price of course always helps and if you can afford to do so and are desperate to sell you may want to do that. Good luck!