Critique my rightmove listing please

HappyMJ

Where does everyone sit for dinner or when they're all in the living room?

There's 4 double beds...8 people. Yet only 6 seats in the dining room and 4 seats in the living room.

Cakeguts

HappyMJ wrote: »

Where does everyone sit for dinner or when they're all in the living room?

There's 4 double beds...8 people. Yet only 6 seats in the dining room and 4 seats in the living room.

At least one of the double beds is right next to a wall so people have to climb over each other to get into bed?

glasgowdan

There's no point nit picking at how the photos are taken, or hanging baskets, leylandii in the garden etc. None of that will be putting people off.

It's things that aren't easy to fix that are the issue - price, location, size. I can't comment on specifics but these are the things that will be holding people back.

The kitchen's tiny for such a decent size and expensive house - it really needs to be joined up with the study next door and a modern kitchen put in place. That's what buyers will be factoring in to their costs.

The 6ft bedroom should really be joined up with the 10x10 room next to it to make a nice sized room.

Remove/change the photos that show the neighbour's house overlooking your garden.

missbiggles1

HappyMJ wrote: »

Where does everyone sit for dinner or when they're all in the living room?

There's 4 double beds...8 people. Yet only 6 seats in the dining room and 4 seats in the living room.

Lots of people live in houses that have more bedrooms than you actually need - 5 bedrooms would be quite appropriate for a family with 3 children - or even 2 if they wanted a lot of separate space.

Paully232000

I would agree with what some others have said about the number of bedrooms. There seems to have been an extra bedroom wedged into this house where there is no need. My house is a bit bigger in sq ft that yours and has 4 bedrooms, and looking round my house I am not sure where I could fit another bedroom in without it feeling sqeezed into a space where it should not be.
Also, if it is a shared drive this would put me off, and others, I am sure.

The rest of your house is well presented, and I dont feel that any buyers would 'have' to do anything immediate when they moved in. Looks nice.

booksurr

within 5 mile radius there are 42 properties of 4 or 5 beds under 450k. However, yours is in fact the only 5 bed and you are the 3rd most expensive of those 42

I don't think there is anything wrong with your listing.

I think your issue will be whether buyers NEED the 5th bedroom and cannot afford to buy a "better" 5 bed property, as your nearest 5 bed competitor on that front is £35k more expensive than you at 475k, but is a totally different proposition as it has a loft conversion so all the rooms remain "large" and it has a better downstairs layout (with utility). http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-52740418.html

You are therefore competing against 4 beds and you are "pricey" against them.

Anyone who can go over 500k (and bearing in mind Chippenham is marketed as a London commuter's area) won't look at yours because there are much nicer 4 beds available. Although as you'd expect 5 beds are few and far and it is not until the £750k territory that you get to "decent" 5 bed properties at which point other factors are at play, eg. land and horsey stuff

I think you will just have to wait for "your" buyer

JennaS

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate you all taking the time to look and comment. There's nothing we can do about the number/size of rooms without spending a lot of money and that's not an option. I'll have a look at putting some colour into the garden and getting some better pictures taken. We're pretty sure it's a price issue but we had 4 valuations which ranged from £390K to £465K so we thought we were pitching it at the right price but it seems not.

I'll get the listing sorted before we reduce the price so that when it goes to the top of the Rightmove list it will have the new, hopefully improved, photos. Thanks again.

LittleMax

Comparing it with the floorplan for no1, you can see an extension was added, was this your extension OP or was it already added when you bought?

As others have said the downstairs living space doesn't seem big enough, and the smallest bedroom very small. I would move the desk and upstairs and set up the study in the smallest bedroom. Then dress the existing study as a small family room with a small sofa. I think it is more likely that families would use that space as an extra sitting room or playroom.

dc197

In the listing, ensure you use metric measurements as well as imperial. And with the imperial ones, it would make it more readable if you approximate. Bedroom 2 is described as 10'01" x 10'06". It would be simpler for the eye if it were described as 10x10, that one inch isn't important.

sann420

Ignoring other peoples comments here and writing down my gut feelings after viewing your right move ad:

The house is absolutely beautiful and well kept. Its good that you have a floor plan but Pictures + floor plan only give an idea of what the house is about. Your target buyer will probably be a savvy family person who is buying a property for the 2nd or 3rd time.

So I think it will come down to the demand in your area and how competitive your asking price is really.

Also take into account the Brexit factor. Buyers are just waiting out this referendum result and will probably become active once we have the results out of the way.

Best of luck