No viewings on house yet!!! Help!!

Mojisola

ognum wrote: »

I like your home but I think you can blame the job situation in your part of the world for the lack of viewers plus the price.

Your area is being devastated by job losses ( I won't say anything political here) this means everyone takes a step backward even the peopl who have money and a job.

This for your area will be like the housing crash of 08/09. If you are in a job you sit tight, watch the market, don't over extend yourself and see what the fall out for the general area is.

If the above is true, would it be possible to rent something small in the school's new catchment area and rent out your house?

I'm out of touch with school stuff now but, if you moved back into your home once your daughter is at school, wouldn't she still keep her place there?

Jhoney_2

OP, Did you knock through the previous dining room to make the kitchen larger? That would explain some of the cost you say that you have incurred, but it appears you bought too high, prioritised work to your own time frame (understandable as you were not planning to move) and what's left is putting people off.

It's price, current exterior kerb appeal, lack of downstairs toilet and limited wow factor e.g upstairs bathroom compared to PasturesNew's example offering.

The locals think it's pricey and the out of towners don't like it enough - perhaps the schools available in the new catchment?.

I quite like what you have done in the kitchen, but the other rooms need more of that!

ognum

SuzieSue wrote: »

This is why

Oh thanks, my error

HappyMJ

Way overpriced.

Listed at £180,000 in September of only last year. Some cosmetic work done and you want to sell for £239,950. For £60,000 more. I wouldn't even consider looking at it. Sorry.

And you lose value when school catchment areas change. You want to leave for just that reason. It should be priced much lower to attract viewings.

How about renting it out?

libf

Aimeewaugh wrote: »

The Utility is big, it has a washer, a sink and that's where we would put a toilet and close it off, it's a large utility. Again agent said not to put pic up. Bathroom is grey but with electric shower and not that bad really. And yes we have spent that much on it. Everything is very expensive to do these days.

So basically I'll add a pic of bathroom and utility and I'll ask them to add more information.

The kicthen diner is so big, there's loads of space but obviously it can't be seen from pics so don't know what I can do about that.

I think I'll have the pics of the drive removed if they put people off.

Don't have the cash to do anymore work, hence it not being done.

And if you really do want a quick sale, then drop the price...

TBeckett100

so, this sold for just above your asking
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-34888956.html

compared to yours, this is more impressive visually and it has a downstairs bathroom

this has more character and is cheaper
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51318871.html

this is much cheaper
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-36838976.html

the price appears disproportionate to the rest of the road.

You've spent money in the wrong places. Ignoring the bathroom (a hassle and expense to replace), no downstairs WC (we used to have one , now we have one each) etc

Also, some of the rooms are lifeless, i.e. a picture of a ball pond? Also the back of the property looks a bit hap hazard.

I think the decor is lovely, but if I viewed it and saw a bad bathroom, i'd come away disappointed. The trick is to have nice photos and a bit of a wow factor going on there

csgohan4

OP needs to be realistic and drop the price. If not willing, rent it out until it reaches a price your ocmfortable with.

tom9980

The real issue is the school catchment IMO, what is your goal here OP? to move a few miles to be in catchment again? it seems really strange to me that you would move from a dream home just so that a child can get into a school whose performance can vary so much based on the whim of an Ofsted report once every 2-4 years. Why are you so focussed on your child going to this one particular school?

chelseablue

Mojisola wrote: »

If the above is true, would it be possible to rent something small in the school's new catchment area and rent out your house?

I'm out of touch with school stuff now but, if you moved back into your home once your daughter is at school, wouldn't she still keep her place there?

I think this is a very good idea if its possible


Im not up with the school rules but could you rent a small place in the school catchement area and when she's in the school move back into the house?


Im sure once your in a school they cant just chuck you out if you move (my cousin has done the same thing)


Or what is the school like that you are in catchment for?

moneyistooshorttomention

tom9980 wrote: »

The real issue is the school catchment IMO, what is your goal here OP? to move a few miles to be in catchment again? it seems really strange to me that you would move from a dream home just so that a child can get into a school whose performance can vary so much based on the whim of an Ofsted report once every 2-4 years. Why are you so focussed on your child going to this one particular school?

That comment I can relate to - ie because I'm now in an area that I would not send any child I had to any schools in the vicinity. My response to that would be "Well - I had better home school them then - or send them to an independent (eg Steiner) :mad::(" - rather than moving to an "area as I thought it would be" - that is the schools were what I had assumed all local schools would be in the first place iyswim.

I can get just why schools in the area just wouldn't be satisfactory - ie so that it would be possible to just think "Well - I'm get my kids into that one in the first place - and then I will move"....