House sale help!

G_M

PURPLE BRICKS......

Others have made relevant comments, but that's the biggie.

dancing_star

G_M wrote: »

PURPLE BRICKS......

Others have made relevant comments, but that's the biggie.

Me too.

It's a lovely house and I love your sofa!!

But purple bricks would put me off.

kinger101

Personally, I only think PurpleBricks are a problem when you're using their estate agents for viewings. They're terribly inflexible with bookings. Otherwise, I've known them to sell properties in days.

Marketing it at £129,950 means it appears below all other properties marketed at £130,000 when people rank search results by price.

But that's not your problem. £130K is simply unrealistic. This much larger property is being marketed at £128K

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60387961.html

This one is on at OIEO £105K and still hasn't sold;

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-68286245.html

I know yours may be better presented, and has the garage, but it's not one I would view if that was my budget. In fact, if I run the RM search to include properties within 0.5 miles of yours including SSTC, it indicates your statement about other recent sales is not accurate.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65618570.html

Bogof_Babe

No downstairs loo. Only one toilet and it is in the bathroom, so not ideal for a family. Is there anywhere with potential to fit a cloakroom? Even in the garage?

Fosterdog

For the most part your house is well presented, your living room is very nice, but just too small as a main living space for a family. Most people wouldn’t want the front door blocked off which leaves no real space for a sofa.

The kitchen, personal preference but I don’t like it at all, the orange is too overbearing and the laminate floor blends into the cupboards but not in a good way, it’s clean, uncluttered and well laid out but the decor is a big downside for me, I’d want to rip it out straight away.

The first two bedrooms are lovely, good sizes, well laid out, nice decor, not 100% to my taste but not so far out that I couldn’t move in as it is. The flooring is lovely upstairs.

The third bedroom although it looks lovely is way too small, it looks like an ikea hemnes chest of drawers, they are not that big so the only real point of reference for size makes it look like if a single bed went in there would be no room for anything else at all.

The bathroom, I do really like it but as the only bathroom it looks too small and no bath will put off family buyers and anyone who just likes a good soak. If this was an en suit it would be amazing.

Then as others have said, no downstairs toilet and no outdoor space is the final nail in the coffin. Of course anything will sell if it’s priced right but while your house has many positive points the few negatives are big enough to lower the value substantially and limit your pool of potential buyers.

davidmcn

The main road out the front would put me off too.

sulphate

The orange in the kitchen/dining room is too much, paint it a more neutral colour.
Move the sofa so nothing is blocking the front door.
Use a high street agent. If I was booking viewings and there was a similar house on the market with a high street agent, they would be the first ones I would call. I’d only call purple bricks if your house was very unique and stood out and there was nothing else like it on the market, but that isn’t the case.

I agree the fact there is no bath and not a lot of room to put one in, and no garden, would also put me off but I appreciate that’s not something you can do anything about. If similar houses have these things and are similarly priced then you need to consider dropping the price.

G_M

kinger101 wrote: »

Personally, I only think PurpleBricks are a problem when you're using their estate agents for viewings. They're terribly inflexible with bookings. Otherwise, I've known them to sell properties in days.

In this thread here I've said I've looked at dozens of houses over 5 years waiting for the ideal home.

So I have experienced the buyer experience of many different types of agents (including hand-made signs by the sellers I've just come across).

Purple Bricks is a big turn off now. Poor web descriptions, appalling responses to enquiries, missed appointments, you name it...

I'm more likely now to knock on the door than go via PBs.

Lucky_Duck_2

Perhaps a minor point but the sofa appears to be blocking the front door

Cakeguts

I think this house was built as a 2 bed. I looked using streetview at the backs and they all appear to be the same width so there shouldn't be any that were originally sold as 2 beds if they are now 3 beds. This would explain why the 3rd bedroom is so small. It has been carved out of bedroom 1.

This one is a purpose build 3 bed not on a main road and with a garden and it is sold http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62331346.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54969496.html Here is a 2 bed with a weird garden and with a garage. Look at the price.

The competition you have got for selling houses is making yours look very expensive.