Moving problems

Davesnave

tom9980 wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-59364502.html

This one?

If it's that one, the only thing against it I can see from a quick look is that the garage is set away from the property and there's quite a long trek to the front door from the parking area. It also has a north facing garden, shaded from the west.

Room sizes are OK, schools likewise. It's a perfectly decent house

The area isn't 'hot' property-wise, so it must be price, but I have no time to look at comparables.

tori.k

To me it just looks like a slow market in your area there has been a few similar threads from the Northern part of the UK of late, did your neighbours house actually sell at asking price, we were surprised at a house that sold in our neighborhood but wasn't surprised to find it actually sold 27k under list price, you may find a similar story.

lincroft1710

Don't like the idea of having a grassed area right next door, possible problems with children and footballs or older children just congregating. Obviously nothing you can do about it, but it will put some people off. Some of the decor would not be to everyone's taste, but easily remedied.

AdrianC

amybear wrote: »

The house couple of doors up has sold, and it was up for 8K more then mine!

...and this is the other property?
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67884902.html

I prefer yours. The decor in the other one is very, umm, subjective. It's got neighbours on both sides instead of open space on one. The large kitchen-diner in yours, at the expense of a third ground floor room is also subjective - but, to my mind, is a good trade-off - especially when you look at how cramped the "diner" is in the other property.

What we don't know, though, is how much the sale price on that property is. The offer they accepted may have been considerably below asking.

There's nothing in the RM details which would make me view that one but not yours - so unless your agents are utterly useless chimps to deal with (in which case, you wouldn't have given them the business, right?), then there must be some other factor that's not obvious.

Oh - and on the downloadable PDF brochure, get them to remove the strapline for the June open day...

walwyn1978

Yours has better decor, a more logical layout and a decent looking garden area. As already said without knowing how much the other sold for we can't compare, but there's no obvious reason why yours isn't shifting unless there are local factors at play we can't see.

amybear

Thank you everyone for your opinions on my house. I am quite stumped as to why we are having problems, and they sold their's with no problems. Reading your messages has made me feel good, that there isn't anything really bad about mine. Its nice to have outside opinions.

Thanks again

kinger101

It doesn't matter now, but there was a schoolboy error when it was first listed. There's no point pricing something at £129,950. If someone's looking at houses up to £130K, yours would have appeared below all those on at £130K.

I think it's swings and roundabouts between the two properties. I'd probably go for yours based on no neighbours to one side (after checking no kids congregating on the grass to the side). And I don't like the hard landscaping of the other.

I think the other one had better photos. I'm guessing yours were taken by the EA, the other one used a photographer.