Feedback on Rightmove advert for house sale

ashe

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

Picture 1 - not clear which is the house for sale.
Picture 2 - room looks cluttered, can you retake photo without footstool, coffee table and small dining table.
Picture 3 - looks dark (remove items as stated in pic 2).
Picture 4 - can you clear the surfaces, remove oven gloves etc to give a cleaner looking picture overall.
Pic 5 - funny angle, pic 6 is better shot of this room.

Can you move the table into the kitchen, it states on the floorplan it's a kitchen/diner but can only see one end of the room.

I've just looked at the other ads and the houses I've looked at (not all, but particularly the one listed today and under offer) look a lot larger than yours on the inside. Unsure if that's down to your furnishing or they are actually larger.

Thanks - Have already contacted EA today asking them to swap pic 1 with a new one I've taken that shows the grass to the side of the house and focuses more on our house - agree its an odd angle that isn't clear which house is actually for sale

Am going to retake the photos for Pic 2, and take out Pic 3 as its a little dark.

have already requested EA take out pic 5 for the bedroom as makes the room look smaller than it is.

Will try retaking the one of the kitchen - the EA has described this as a 'breakfast kitchen' but the only thing not in the picture is a wall and a boiler. Its a kitchen!

ashe

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Get rid of the coffee table and the footstool, at the moment it looks like you're climbing over them to sit down! The settee on its own would be OK.

I agree with the above poster the dining table should go in the kitchen/diner if possible. The fact that it's shoved in the lounge makes it look like it isn't really a kitchen/diner at all and the lounge is the only place to fit a table.

It's generally better to show bedrooms as bedrooms, the description says the one you're using as an office is a double, but lots of people will think it's probably a single really unless you show them it isn't.

I do think this is a bit 'rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic' though. No minor changes will make your place worth much more, it might just get a few more viewers in but will anyone offer your asking price when they know they'll have work to do and will be factoring that in?

I do agree about the second bedroom, however I do use it as an office as I'm a business analyst and work from home a lot. The furniture in the room is newly bought and put in and my girlfriend keeps all her things in there, so between that and the desk where I work there is not space for a double bed, but it has had one in the past.

aneary

Can you move the wardrobes out of the bedroom they make it look really small if you could put the white wardrobe in the spare room in the bedroom it will appear bigger but also show that it isn't too small for a wardrobe.

Red-Squirrel_2

ashe wrote: »

I do agree about the second bedroom, however I do use it as an office as I'm a business analyst and work from home a lot. The furniture in the room is newly bought and put in and my girlfriend keeps all her things in there, so between that and the desk where I work there is not space for a double bed, but it has had one in the past.

When you're trying to get a buyer, you sometimes have to make changes you wouldn't want to live with long term, and manage with your house in a way that is designed to sell, not to live in.

lukanry81

How long are you tied into EA contract? 12 weeks? Could you not change to another? Go with one of the agents which charge 1% instead of the 3% difference could go towards legal fees. Take off market for a few weeks and relaunch with all new pics?

Ms_Chocaholic

OP you haven't replied to the net curtain issue.

ashe

lukanry81 wrote: »

How long are you tied into EA contract? 12 weeks? Could you not change to another? Go with one of the agents which charge 1% instead of the 3% difference could go towards legal fees. Take off market for a few weeks and relaunch with all new pics?

26 weeks unfortunately, with notice able to be given at that point

ashe

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

When you're trying to get a buyer, you sometimes have to make changes you wouldn't want to live with long term, and manage with your house in a way that is designed to sell, not to live in.

I agree, and where possible we can and will do so, but we dont have the scope to make this change. I need a desk that I can work at all day and all night occasionally. The double bed will not fit in alongside wardrobe and drawers which are new, so this would mean buying a new double bed, getting rid of the new furniture which is in use and was not cheap, and me not having anywhere to work. We would then have the problem of where to put partners clothes and work items that are in the wardrobe and drawers due to no longer having those. It's just not practical unfortunately.

ashe

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

OP you haven't replied to the net curtain issue.

Will take these down for the photos - girlfriend likes them up for privacy due to nosy neighbours, I've never been a fan.

kerri_gt

Might be being picky here but I would drop pic 11 - end of terrace is great for back garden access both for the owner...and anyone thinking of a break in. That wall screams to me easy hop skip and a jump into your back garden. The other picture of the back garden doesn't emphasise that as much so I'd keep that.