What is wrong?

Better_Days

OP could you make a small office area down the end of the living room where the stairs are with just the bare minimum of what you need? Thinking of pic 4 of this property http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=43300495&sale=52552079&country=england

You could then re dress the conservatory which looks very nice to a dining room which would help to balance out your dated bathroom.

You could consider freshening up the colour on the kitchen cabinets - possibly with a lighter colour - and try and get a bit of coherance with the colour in the kitchen - there is no other green. It can be more effective to have most of the room a neutral colour and then use acents - such as tea towels, flowers, blinds, ornaments to add in some brighter colour.

Have a look at some new build listings nearby for ideas as to how rooms are presented to maximise attractiveness to most people.

Main thing is though - declutter. Does anyone in the house smoke or are there pet smells to put viewers off?

fairy_lights

Better_Days wrote: »

OP could you make a small office area down the end of the living room where the stairs are with just the bare minimum of what you need? Thinking of pic 4 of this property http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=43300495&sale=52552079&country=england

I'm assuming this house has exactly the same floor space as the OP's but the photos make it look so much bigger and lighter. Living room and bedrooms both look so much better - the space under the stairs that's being used as a dining room in this house isn't even visible in the OP's photos.

Bossypants

Picture-wise, less floor, more ceiling. Angling the pictures down makes the rooms look dark and cramped. Looking at it objectively I think that's probably not the case, but prospective buyers are generally not objective. Help them feel like their first view is open, like they're looking up and around, rather than hunched over looking down.


Best of luck! I think it looks like a nice little house.

TBagpuss

fairy_lights wrote: »

I'm assuming this house has exactly the same floor space as the OP's but the photos make it look so much bigger and lighter. Living room and bedrooms both look so much better - the space under the stairs that's being used as a dining room in this house isn't even visible in the OP's photos.

Wow. If that is the same, then there is a *lot* you can do to present yours better.

However, it does look as though that one sold for less than you are asking, is it possible you are overpriced?

AdrianC

TheRoders wrote: »

...and the price already reflects this!

That sold link that Better Days has posted says not. That place - identical layout, only a few doors away, and better presented than yours - sold for £240k, £25k less than you're asking, four months ago... AND it's had the windows done already...

So add "seriously overpriced" to your list of woes. Sorry, but it always comes down to that in the end. Even if there were other factors, somebody would take the place on if the price was right...

Better_Days

AdrianC wrote: »

That sold link that Better Days has posted says not. That place - identical layout, only a few doors away, and better presented than yours - sold for £240k, £25k less than you're asking, four months ago... AND it's had the windows done already...

So add "seriously overpriced" to your list of woes. Sorry, but it always comes down to that in the end. Even if there were other factors, somebody would take the place on if the price was right...

I suspect EA was looking at this one sold in October for £255k as a comparator too. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=46805609&sale=52552076&country=england
Has no conservatory - But windows and bathroom have been done. I think you are right about price, the conservatory doesn't add the value that the windows and bathroom does.

ognum

TheRoders wrote: »

I really have NO spare cash... Hence why we are moving to try and clear our debts so changing windows etc is an absolute no go and the price already reflects this!

I can not move my business temporarily. It's light industrial I would need and I'd be looking at a minimum of £800 a month to do this... I can not move the business equipment.

It is an end terrace but there is a detached house next to us.

Sorry but sadly you home looks like you have no spare cash and that is the problem.

Anyone who buys your home will need to gut it and start again, it needs a new kitchen and bathroom, the garden looks functional but unattractive.

So, you have two choices, you spend money on your home, tidy it up and make it look great or you lower the price to reflect all the things that need to be done.

It looks like a first time buyer home (couple no kids) and you are squeezing your family in which makes it look too small.

Selling your home is a buisness, think about your market, find someone you know who has a garage, store a lot of your personal stuff in there, now make it look like a show home not a place where a family hang out.

moneyistooshorttomention

Others have already made many of the comments I would make, but I think the thing that would strike me most is single-glazed windows still.

To me, what single glazing translates into is "But ....EVERYONE has had doubleglazing for at least 20/30 years by now" and I then go onto wonder what other necessities aren't there. Doubleglazing has gone from "giving a bit of an edge over others" to THE absolute norm some while back now. I would be wanting more off the price than the cost of doing the doubleglazing myself on the grounds of wondering what else I was going to find wasn't standard/modern/usable yet.

Re fluffy towels on show in the bathroom and taking the EA's word for it that they don't show things like that in the bathroom...errrr....what? Whose photos are they? The thought of an EA telling me how my photos could and couldn't be wouldn't even enter my mind and, if they tried, they would be told "My house = my photos. Do you want the job or don't you?" or words to that effect. No EA would dictate what was what to me like that. The one I recently used to sell my last house was (politely) told to come back and re-take a couple of the photos, as they hadn't been taken from the correct angle (ie showing what was over the wall of the "courtyard garden" quite clearly and hence needing retaking to show instead the "nice little area to sit out" I had created).

quidsy

Garden looks confusing, what's the big green semi circle? Why aren't there any plants or greenery?

Bathroom, get a new shower curtain that compliments the suite & a mat & some accessories like a hand wash dispenser, put some nice plants on the window sill. It looks like no one ever uses it.

Living room, get a better photo. D!cor is fine, get rid of some cushions.

Kitchen, put the plates away & take off whatever it is stuck to the boiler.

Declutter in general, it looks very pokey & cluttered from the photos. Very off putting

StumpyPumpy

If I were looking at buying in the area, the first question I would ask myself is whether I believed that the market for houses like yours has increased by £50k in 16 months
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=43364393&sale=50551769&country=england

It is always the same, it is always the price.