Enough pictures to create interest?

Halle71

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

What does the house you are trying to buy have that your current house does not, Halle?

I'm just curious!

We live in a SE suburb v near to you, and are currently completely priced out of buying a house We have a lovely 3 bed maisonette, but really need a house now with 2 kids under 4.

It's not the house - we still love it!
My dad is really sick and is giving us £100k as part of my inheritance and wants us to spend it on property. To move to a better area would be Tooting Bec or Balham but our £100k will get us nowhere - we'd have to downsize.

We have found a house locally (so we can keep our two at the same school and nursery) that is 30m2 bigger, SW17 rather than CR, end of terrace, off street parking and in the catchment of an 'outstanding' secondary school. It's on at the same price as ours because it is vacant and shabby so our money will enable us to split a massive loft into two rooms for the kids making it a 5 bed, put in three new bathrooms, decorate, refloor and finally put in a kitchen extension making it into a 180m2 house.

We have involved my parents and we all agree this is a worthwhile upgrade for our money given the current housing market.

But it also means it is literally the only house for us so we will stay put if we lose it.

liz-paul

I love your house and would buy it in a second if I could! Just wondering - being an ex Mitcham resident myself and looking at it on the map could the description push the fact that it is almost Tooting rather than Mitcham? The price sounds quite high for Mitcham which many people consider to be a dump but from the map but it is probably the nicest part of Mitcham. Good luck selling

Blue264

Gorgeous house!

I'd change the angle of the front photo as it makes the top of the house look like it's falling forward. You need the photo to be more frontal than a side on view.
Remove the broken trellis from the garden fence and varnish the fence. Then paint the shed in one of the new colours being advertised at the moment. That would make your garden match the contemporary feel of the interior.

Beyond that, you have a beautiful home. :T

AdrianC

The only job of the photos is to make a prospective buyer want to see the place in the flesh. They're PLENTY good 'nuff. Nice clear floorplan, too. The listing is as good as you need it to be - everything else is down to viewings.

Halle71

liz-paul wrote: »

I love your house and would buy it in a second if I could! Just wondering - being an ex Mitcham resident myself and looking at it on the map could the description push the fact that it is almost Tooting rather than Mitcham? The price sounds quite high for Mitcham which many people consider to be a dump but from the map but it is probably the nicest part of Mitcham. Good luck selling

Thanks :-)
Our road is the last CR4 - we are next to SW17 postcode roads so we have always thought of ourselves as Tooting as far as geography goes. We are with a Tooting EA and they are marketing it to people looking at basic 3 beds for the same price in 'proper' Tooting which is how we found it 5 years ago.

londonlydia

Halle71 wrote: »

Interesting comments about the garden. Maybe it's a London vs suburbs thing but we have the best garden out of all our friends here but yes, def scruffier than outer London gardens. We usually make an effort about now in time for BBQs but I guess with thinking it had sold we haven't done.

I agree it's not a bad garden, it's just the little bits of post-winter repairs/ sprucing up it needs. It's just where your house is otherwise immaculate, these little things are more obvious...you see things like the broken trellis (made worse by the photo angle I think).

Anyway good luck today and hope you get a good offer x

Metranil_Vavin

The way things are in London right now, you shouldn't have any trouble selling your house for the asking price (or over!). I guess it's just a timing thing as to getting the house you want before someone else does.

Halle71

Taken the zoopla link out as it completely skews the viewing figures!
The KFH one on page two still works though.