Are our selling expectations unrealistic???

no1duncan

quantumlobster wrote: »

The pics are pretty bad, tbh. Have you used a filter effect? They look very washed out.

Lose the car in the first one. Picture 3 is dark. I love your kitchen, and wish to steal it from your house to put in mine. But picture 4 is superfluous. Pic 5 is great. Pic 6 is a bad angle. Pic 7 is OK. Pic 8 is dark - perhaps magnolia that room for the purposes of selling? Pic 9 looks like you're peeping round the corner into the room. Pic 10 is dark. And peepy. Pic 11 is better than the other bathroom pic, but still a bad angle. Pic 12 is shot into the sun - never a good idea. Pic 13 is great

tl;dr - interior photography with a phone is hard. Get/borrow a proper camera and learn to do fill flash to avoid the "bright windows/dark room" (or tempt a photographer friend, we're generally amenable to generous offerings of beer/pizza/etc). For tiny rooms, use a modest wide-angle (i.e. not the ludicrous almost-fisheye) lens.

Thank you Quantum!! That breakdown is really really useful I'm pretty sure I can find somebody with a decent camera if I ask around. I'm going to print off your list and use it when I retake the photos!!

no1duncan

marliepanda wrote: »

if your rooms are bigger, make it obvious! Its hard to tell from floorplans. Decor can be changed, gardens can be tarted up (I hope, mine was very much neglected by previous owners....) but room sizes? You cant easily change that, so sell it!

Cheers Marlie, I'll be on to the EA tonight to get the rooms sizes nice and prominent in the descriptions.

ProDave

mrsjanebanbury2009 wrote: »

I know nothing about the area, but this one
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73767647.html
is a little cheaper. So could be price?

Thar's a very much nicer looking house than the OP's, on a much better plot, not so hemmed in on a tight estate. I would choose that one any day over the OP's house.

And it has a garage, the OP's house appears to have half a garage.

ReadingTim

I don't know whether you are trying to sell the house or the car, but £280k is probably too much for either of them.

Chuck in the house, car, plus the other one parked outside the garage and you might have a deal....

Cheeky_Monkey

mrsjanebanbury2009 wrote: »

I know nothing about the area, but this one
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73767647.html
is a little cheaper. So could be price?

Personally, I prefer the OP's house to this one. I really like the garden of the OP's house and hate the other one.

The main difference is that the OP's garage has been converted to storage/utility room and WC which I think is much better as most modern cars don't fit in most garages anyway.

no1duncan

ReadingTim wrote: »

I don't know whether you are trying to sell the house or the car, but £280k is probably too much for either of them.

Chuck in the house, car, plus the other one parked outside the garage and you might have a deal....

Haha it's a good point Tim. I'll be retaking the pic without the cars!

Cakeguts

The newer one has a very nice really small backgarden. It is also a more modern house and is small. Your house is much older on a not so nice road but is bigger and has a bigger back garden.



So both have good and bad points. I think what you really want to do is to make the newer one look expensive for what it is.

no1duncan

Cakeguts wrote: »

The newer one has a very nice really small backgarden. It is also a more modern house and is small. Your house is much older on a not so nice road but is bigger and has a bigger back garden.



So both have good and bad points. I think what you really want to do is to make the newer one look expensive for what it is.

Thanks Cake. A couple of posters have mentioned the size thing so I'm defintely going to get the descriptions and floorplans updated to really make this a feature. (Tbh the people that have been round all mentioned it was bigger than they were expecting so we are obviously not getting that across!)

Margot123

Your photos look distorted. At first I thought it was the fireside rug's pattern but every photo looks 'warped'.

Your first image looks more like an advert from Auto Trader as the cars dominate it and make it look as though you've got such inadequate parking, you have to park in the living room window.

It also says 'full description' but there is nothing to say about the rooms etc. It makes you look lazy; people want/need to know the sizes. Does it have heating or is it run by heat generated from a hamster turning a large wheel..........who knows?

Also, what about the EPC?

Sorry to be critical, but you did ask.

no1duncan

Margot123 wrote: »

Your photos look distorted. At first I thought it was the fireside rug's pattern but every photo looks 'warped'.

Your first image looks more like an advert from Auto Trader as the cars dominate it and make it look as though you've got such inadequate parking, you have to park in the living room window.

It also says 'full description' but there is nothing to say about the rooms etc. It makes you look lazy; people want/need to know the sizes. Does it have heating or is it run by heat generated from a hamster turning a large wheel..........who knows?

Also, what about the EPC?

Sorry to be critical, but you did ask.

Thanks Margot. I'm more than happy for you to be critical! We changed the original photos as they were really dark but on the advice of lots of the posts today we will definitely be changing them again! The description was written by the EA (as were the original pics), I think I shall have to re-write that too.

Does make me wonder what we are paying the EA for as I'm ending up getting you guys to help improve the viewings as they aren't!

Thanks again