House for sale 8 weeks and no viewings

Crashy_Time

Deleted_User wrote: »

When did you last buy a house?

When did you put your`s on the market?

Niv

OP, I wanted to see the changes you made but you have removed the link. Do you no longer want anyone to see it? I have a cached version of your original post in any case.

westernpromise

buggy_boy wrote: »

Are you an estate agent or have you sold lots of houses? Having bought quite a few houses in certain areas especially there is a ceiling price, if you try to go above that you get nothing, you drop £10-£15k an suddenly people are interested.

Oh, Crashy's sold a house all right. He sold one in 1996 because he thought the market was about to crash, and has rented ever since. So that worked out well.

martindow

sx_turbo wrote: »

https://photos.app.goo.gl/etELwRBch3PPLLkP6

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Cur163wTVN3ZdFrf7

This is the view from the house, taken from upstairs bedroom. The old factory site isn't that bad.

The issue for me would not be how it looks now but what could happen in the future. Uncertainty about what could be built there will tend to put people off.

sx_turbo

Niv wrote: »

OP, I wanted to see the changes you made but you have removed the link. Do you no longer want anyone to see it? I have a cached version of your original post in any case.

I have my answers, and thought it may be detrimental to the house sale if I leave it on this thread.

I have only changed the house price, everything else that requires changing from people's suggestions isn't anything I can change.

sx_turbo

martindow wrote: »

The issue for me would not be how it looks now but what could happen in the future. Uncertainty about what could be built there will tend to put people off.

I agree with this, we had the same thought s but 5 years later there are still no plans, and no potential plans for now.

The land is privately owned but it will cost a fortune to build on it so they are waiting until the council stop letting new builds happen on Greenfield sites before they start building.

GoldenShadow

I hate to say it OP, but I would never buy in Silver End. Its one of those areas that has a certain look and a bad reputation (rightly or wrongly, sometimes mud sticks). We bought in Tiptree a few years ago and I would do my all to stretch my budget to not be limited to SE, or I would go out as far as Colchester to avoid it but get something in the same price range. It doesn't help that Witham/Braintree/Kelvedon are all near you and have stations/decent amenities on the doorstep It will come down to price, what some will sacrifice and what others wont. As I said, no way I would buy in SE at all I am afraid, I would rule it out if I found out it was there. Sometimes SE appears as Witham but most people usually figure out it is SE.

sx_turbo

GoldenShadow wrote: »

I hate to say it OP, but I would never buy in Silver End. Its one of those areas that has a certain look and a bad reputation (rightly or wrongly, sometimes mud sticks). We bought in Tiptree a few years ago and I would do my all to stretch my budget to not be limited to SE, or I would go out as far as Colchester to avoid it but get something in the same price range. It doesn't help that Witham/Braintree/Kelvedon are all near you and have stations/decent amenities on the doorstep It will come down to price, what some will sacrifice and what others wont. As I said, no way I would buy in SE at all I am afraid, I would rule it out if I found out it was there. Sometimes SE appears as Witham but most people usually figure out it is SE.

This is where things are very subjective, and is down to personal opinion and facts. For example a good friend of mine lives in coggeshal and has been lucky with family giving him his house, but he said if he was looking he would rather silver end than Witham and Braintree.

Negative remarks make more of an impression than a positive one, for every 1 negative it takes about 5 positive s to counter act the 1.

My thoughts are based on actually living here for 5 years ( I originally came from canvey which is an awful place to live) the village is actually really sleepy and not a lot happens other than usual villagey type stuff, the worst things that have happened in the past 5 years is the co op has been robbed and travellers have arrived twice. Compare this with Braintree and Witham (even coggeshal has a higher crime rate than silver end and that's to be posh), and imo Braintree is by far the worse place to live and imo is like living on canvey, similar can be said for Witham, certainly down roads like Humber of which my house is being compared to.

I'm not saying it's the best place to live due to the conservation area not all the houses look tip top, and there are nicer looking places, but to get better villages you need to pay a lot more money.

Personally I don't like tiptree, and it's to far from where we need to be for job and family reasons,

Crashy_Time

westernpromise wrote: »

Oh, Crashy's sold a house all right. He sold one in 1996 because he thought the market was about to crash, and has rented ever since. So that worked out well.

No, I think `96 was when you started giving "advice" on property forums, around when you bought I think?

mrginge

Crashy_Time wrote: »

No, I think `96 was when you started giving "advice" on property forums, around when you bought I think?

Anyone who bought in 1996 will probably be quite content today I would have thought.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/money/2016/jan/23/britain-property-boom-losers-winners-housing-market-renting

Unlucky.