Adding upstairs toilet to sell?

Greyhorse

We have an existing cupboard which we had quoted to convert so perhaps why it was cheaper? The quote was somewhere around the 3k mark but it was a rough estimate from a builder friend.
To be honest I am not really wanting to spend lots of money on somewhere we don't want to stay but if it sells the house I would do it!

Childrens bedroom choices are quite limited arent they! ��

agrinnall

Is a downstairs bathroom the norm in your area? If it is then it shouldn't really be too much of an issue as buyers looking in that area should expect it, and any who don't haven't done their research.

NicNicP

Are you able to fit a bigger table into the kitchen/diner? That's the only thing from the pictures that would put me off.

Rosieandjim

where are you? if you don't want to give actual address area would be good. I cant find anything wrong with your home it would be just what we would look for and at that price :T

Thrugelmir

Greyhorse wrote: »

We are pretty much the cheapest in the area. There is one very similar literally 2mins down the road on at 118, we are at 105k.
We have already reduced from 115k and have had 12 viewers but nobody wanting to offer.

Hold tight. Spring is nearly here. The market does pick up. There'll be somebody that will accept the hassle of a downstairs bathroom in exchange for a reasonably priced property.

TBagpuss

You've got no floor plan and the description just says

This family home cannot fail to impress and briefly comprises of entrance hallway, light and airy lounge, modern kitchen / diner, family bathroom and two sizeable bedrooms.

which doesn't indicate that the bathroom is downstairs.

In my area it is fairly common for older properties to have a downstairs bathroom but I definitely *didn't* want one, and didn't view properties where the bathroom was downstairs. If I'd been looking at your details I might have viewed, because it is not obvious the bathroom isn't upstairs, but it would have been a waste of everyone's time as it was a dealbreaker for me.

Worth saying that having an upstairs toilet would not have made any difference, I don't want my bath downstairs!

I'd suggest that you get the agent to add a floor plan, and to write a better description that makes clear where things are.

I'd also get rid of pic 6 with the reflections / random photo of your oven, and tidy up the photos generally - pic 17 with someone parked across your gateway isn't good. It would leave me wondering whether you have problems with people blocking the access.

I'd also reconsider pic 15 which looks really cramped and emphasises how close you are to the neighbour's house.

Generally the house looks pretty well-presented so I think it's mostly matter of time, but do get the details updated to add a plan and make the layout clearer.

Good luck.

Cakeguts

This is just what I see. Starting from the front. There is no fence between your drive and the path for next door and there doesn't seem to by a fence between your drive and next door's garden at the back so anyone with a small child would have to watch them in the front garden in case they run round into next door's back garden because there is nothing to stop them. You can't tell by looking that the drive and path are not shared. They look shared because there is nothing to separate them.

There is no washbasin in the toilet. Because the bathroom is off the kitchen you have the possibility of someone using the toilet and then not washing their hands because they either have to go into the bathroom or the kitchen to do it.

The flooring in the kitchen, bathroom and toilet is awful. It is badly fitted and the pattern is too big.

The kitchen is a mixture of several different colours of browns and greys that don't really go together and it is small which is indicated by the size of the table.

The decoration is very bland there is no colour. There are no pictures on the long expanse of wall in the bedroom or the living room.

Greyhorse

Thank you all.

The kitchen wouldn't fit a bigger table sadly. It's definitely a house for two people!

We are in County Durham on the coast around 5mins drive from the sea. Lots of the properties are ex mining type that are a bit upside down but there are more modern new builds around too. It's very much a small two up two down and there's not much I can do to change the layout without spending thousands and thousands.

The car parked over the driveway is mine as I moved it for the photo, will sort that and the other photos out. I think I had got confused as we were with two agents at one point and it was the other who had the floor plan.

Thanks cake I will have a think about what we can do to change things.

seven-day-weekend

We sold our house in 2015 with a downstairs bathroom. It was shown clearly on the floorplan and in the description. However, we still had one or two viewers say they didn't like it (so why did they come to look?).

It was a Victorian terraced house which quite often have downstairs bathrooms. We had nowhere to put extra facilities upstairs.

The people who eventually bought the house ( a young family) didn't care about the downstairs bathroom - they liked the fact that for the same price as a newer house with an upstairs bathroom they got three double bedrooms (instead of two pokey ones) and a decent garden.

I think your house is fine and I wouldn't bother with an upstairs loo (as a poster here has said, if you don't like the bathroom downstairs then a loo upstairs won't make any difference).

Is there another attribute you can push for your house? Like size of bedrooms or off-road prking?

Pixie5740

Is the toilet in a different room from the basin and bath? It sort of looks like it from the photos and that would put me off. I don't like toilets separate from the rest of the bathroom (unless there's another sink in the same room as the toilet).