So tired of denial of the state of the housing market

Pixie5740

I'm in the 10% who like the brick walls. The OP is getting viewings so I'm not sure the look of the house is the issue.

loveka

Your bathroom is beautiful! I'm not sure why anyone would see it as a problem. It is just gorgeous.

Your kitchen is dreadful though. Inexperienced buyers might find it all a bit confusing, as the bathroom is fab, but the kitchen needs ripping out.

At least dress the kitchen to try to draw they eye away from the awful units.

The garden needs some plants in pots, nice furniture ( stuff you can take to your new house) You need to sell a lifestyle.

Reds-on-Sea

Have received an offer from a kitchen designer! How is that for findingthe right buyer? :-)

TamsinC

Reds-on-Sea wrote: »

Have received an offer from a kitchen designer! How is that for findingthe right buyer? :-)

Perfect :j :beer: :T

Hi1234

Seems to be the wrong thread for this. I will make a new one...

[Deleted User]

Reds-on-Sea wrote: »

Have received an offer from a kitchen designer! How is that for findingthe right buyer? :-)

Let's hope they're married to a toilet designer!

getmore4less

One thing I think you should change this time round.

On the next forever house start on the garden early at least have a design with a plan that can be implemented over time.

Get some done in the first year so it has time to mature, especially if you want things like fruit trees.

You can get stuff small and let it grow rather than having to buy more mature stuff a few years down the line when you are wanting to make it special quickly.

Try to make it a usable space early somewhere to retreat from the inside work during the summer months.

phoebe1989seb

getmore4less wrote: »

One thing I think you should change this time round.

On the next forever house start on the garden early at least have a design with a plan that can be implemented over time.

Get some done in the first year so it has time to mature, especially if you want things like fruit trees.

You can get stuff small and let it grow rather than having to buy more mature stuff a few years down the line when you are wanting to make it special quickly.

Try to make it a usable space early somewhere to retreat from the inside work during the summer months.

This ^^^^^

A wise poster on a different forum once suggested exactly this and it's what we've always done

We bought our current home - a cottage with land in SW Wales - in February. It was a repossession and had been tenanted for some time. The gardens hadn't been touched for what looked like decades and internally - although supposedly refurbished a few years back - wasn't much better, lol!

Although we had pressing stuff to do such as have a borehole drilled, we set about landscaping the outside space as soon as the weather permitted. Already it's showing distinct signs of being loved and cared for!

A previous house we did the same and as getmore4less says, by the time the house was finished the garden was fully established.


Great news on finding a buyer OP........and well done for taking the comments on the chin.....

westernpromise

ProDave wrote: »

One of our buy to lets in Inverness, put on the market in 2010, sold in 2013 for almost the asking price. The same flats now sell for the same money, NO increase since 2010.

But in that time the cost of building materials has continued to rise. You now cannot build a house and sell it for enough to cover your costs. Something is very wrong that demand here is so low a house is worth less than it's build cost.

If it's in Scotland surely that's your answer right there. The locals haven't a bean and who'd now move there?

Crashy_Time

https://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/232971-no-wonder-rightmove-stopped-updating-the-market-trends-data/