House been for sale 2 weeks advice needed!

Belindav123

Hi

Hang in there. 2 weeks is quite short , especially in Winter.

House is lovely presented and garden is fairly big. It is not priced for a quick sale. Either way I think you are optimistic about a January deadline as with Christmas coming up, even if you got an offer this week, you would need at least 12 weeks, plus more to allow for holidays.

I would expect this house to be on at £160k-£170k. 2 houses in your road sold for £145k and £165k this year.

But if you can't afford to drop the price, you are going to have to sit tight and wait. Perhaps the market will pick up early in the year again and people will pay your asking price.

Good Luck

fairy_lights

It's a lovely house, the garden is a fantastic size.
I agree with whoever made the suggestion about the kitchen diner, I would like to see a table in there because I can't imagine how it would fit. The living room also looks smaller in the photo that it does on the floor plan, which makes me wonder if it's a case of bad photography making the rooms look smaller?

Waterlily24

It looks like a lovely house, the only thing that would put me off is the kitchen especially the cupboard space.

Hoploz

Wow you get a lot for your money there!

Where are your nick nacks? Even the bathroom is clear! Maybe put some pictures on the walls and some ornaments and cushions etc around.

It is beautifully presented, well done for having such a clean tidy home! ESP with the kids!

How about a few tubs of plants out the back ... Maybe hide the odd looking brick bit?

phoebe1989seb

DaftyDuck wrote: »

What work did you actually do to it? Have you really increased the price that much?

Edit: Having looked up the old details, it wasn't actually in that bad a state. I see a new kitchen (but it's not large, and not that much better than what was there, from a purely functional point of view) and a new bathroom (but it is small, so wouldn't/shouldn't cost too much to do), but what have you done to add value to the property? I don't see any structural change (fireplace doesn't really count, particularly as you removed a gas fire, and only offer the possibility of fitting a stove (will still cost ~ £2,000 to do, especially if chimney isn't ready-lined)). Was it rewired? New central heating system? New doors? Re-roofed? I see no evidence of that. The wood flooring is a very personal choice of improvement, and plenty would put carpet straight down.

I suspect you may have improved the property, but not in a way that increases the price by much. Hope to be proven wrong, though!

Agree with Dafty

In our own recent *refurb* project (hate that term, prefer to say we've *restored* the house), we did the following over a previously 2000, now 2500 sq ft three storey period property -

Complete rewire (including hard-wired smoke alarm)

All new plumbing

Three new bathrooms with Hansgrohe/V&B fittings, increasing bathrooms from two to three

Large kitchen & utility extension with custom hand-painted timber units, limestone flooring, vaulted ceiling with double-height window to take advantage of countryside views

Replastering & redecoration throughout

New timber flooring in three reception rooms

Landscaping large terrace (40' x 40') including hot tub (to remain)

New cast iron rads to ground floor

Hardwood d/g sash windows to front elevation

TOTAL COST: £100,000+

Some of the above has obviously not added any value, but in our case certainly improved saleability and the addition of features such as the huge kitchen window gave the property the *wow* factor (especially as it's what you see when you walk through the front door) enabling it to stand out from the competition

As the OP appears to want to break the ceiling price for their road, something has to make their house stand out from the competition and atm I can't see anything other than a perfectly nicely presented, but somewhat uninspiring bog-standard house......nothing that sells a lifestyle or gives potential buyers something to aspire to.

Maybe *staging* the house would give you a better chance of securing the price you need OP......

Sorry to sound harsh and wishing you well with the sale

Gwhiz

Assuming it's priced right, you just have to be patient.

I put my house on the market on 15 September and had no viewings until October 2 (3 weeks).

I exchanged today!

You only need one right person to come through the door to make a sale.

Blackpool_Saver

Upstairs rooms look very small, kitchen is a mix up, three different colours of appliances, I think it's attention to detail and sizes of rooms, bathroom seems very small too

emcap

Last time it took 12 months and £11K cut to sold the house.

You want 40% return in 18 months for the TLC you did for home.

Be realistic all I have to say.

jollymummy

2 weeks isn't bad. Our house has been on the market for a year and we have had only 4 viewings. Hubby is speaking to the estate agent on Friday as frankly they are pants.

lauralou1986

Everyone keeps mentioning it being overpriced, we had 3 EA round to value the house prior to listing it the 3 valuations from them were ranging between £180k + £190k se we decided to put in on in the middle at £185k I don't think this is an unrealistic approach?


Spoke to EA today and they say we should stick where we are and consider reducing price in a couple of weeks if we wish. They are selling for us on a fixed price.