Loads of viewings but house not selling.

Flyingpig

It is set down from the road unfortunately so the front is in a bit of shadow. Weavers way has been up for sale for a long time because it is being sold with tenants in situ with some strange lifetime tenancy. Monks way needs a new roof, and quite a substantial amount of work done on it that you can't actually see from the photos. I guess like anything though it's hard to judge from the photos alone.

Two houses have also sold for 155 and 162.5 in the last year too, both identical.

:-/

kinger101

No 2 sold for £135K in August 2015. That's an end of terrace as well. OK, you have a conservatory, but at most that adds £5K (while restricting your market).

Flyingpig

It has sold again in Jan 2016 for 155k but it isn't showing yet, niether is the other one

pmlindyloo

Nothing wrong with the house IMO - good size rooms.

For me it would be the garden every time.

I know you haven't got the funds to do what you want (and it may not suit the buyer anyway!)

So, you've cleared it up - good. Now find some money from somewhere and power jet the walls/paint them, put in groups of planters, even tall mini trees - some good ideas if you google about concrete gardens - make it a place that can be used in the immediate future. Put out a nice table and chairs. Would be a nice gesture to leave the plants so you could mention this.

Looking at the garden it would need a relatively small amount of money to make it look like somewhere you could use.

Good luck!

Flyingpig

Surely if people genuinely felt it was over priced surely we would have had feedback to that effect from at least 1 of the 32 viewers? Also would we just not have had any interest at all if it was over priced? We had 3 agents value it at 170, 165 and 160.

I think we may have to find the money to do the garden.

kinger101

I don't really know the area, but I'd rather offer under asking on this than over asking on yours;

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37061865.html

Clutterfree

I agree it's the garden that's the problem. It's not really a garden, more a backyard.
You need to do a cheap makeover.
Paint the walls to brighten it up.
Buy some brightly coloured lots with colourful plants and a few taller shrubs to give some height.
Get a cheap patio table and chairs.
Jet wash the patio slabs.
Lick of paint in the shed and playhouse - bright colours to lift it.
All of these things can be taken with you to your new home (bar the paint) so it's not "wasted" money.

robatwork

To be brutal, the garden is totally unappealing - either to families or retirees. Also the conservatory looks cluttered.

However these are things that would normally stop someone coming to look at your house, and you haven't had a problem with that, so it must be something else.

That something else is (please look away now OP).... price.

When you are getting people in the door and no offers, it's price.

(Or unusual smells, view of a sewage works, pylon in garden, or something else the rightmove pics or streetview aren't revealing)

Flyingpig

kinger101 wrote: »

I don't really know the area, but I'd rather offer under asking on this than over asking on yours;



I agree it's a lovely house but what you can't see is that it's on a set of traffic lights on a busy main road and have no parking at all. The nearest parking is a good 5 minutes walk away up an equally busy side road. If you have a look on street view you can probably see this :-/

AnnieO1234

Can you take a look at the two period properties on hillside road (0.5 miles away apparently) and see the differences from your own? They're both on at £150K and are immediately more appealing.

There's a lot of 3 bedrooms locally so whilst people might be looking at lots to edge their bets, they will most likely be offering on the lower priced ones that tick the same boxes iyswim.

There's a few thousand pounds to get the garden right, plus a lot of hard work if the buyer didn't use a contractor. Question on the garden, does it back onto another road? Xxx