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Selling our house - why aren't people viewing?
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I think the house decor is lovely - yellow kitchen walls and all lol! There are 3 main points that would (personally) put me off:
OIEO - simple buyer psychology... you want to feel like you're getting a bargain. OIEO loses that.
Lack of garden privacy - immediate thought would be 'ooo price of fencing'. I'd get some cheap screening to fix that.
And finally, kids rug in the lounge - if I was buying a family home I'd like some distinction between adult and child space. At the moment I would think there was none.
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poor old Crashy, head buried so far in the sand he should be able to smell AustraliaCrashy_Time wrote: »Can you post a link?
3 Bed semi
5 years, 10 months, & 7 days
price paid 2/7/12 £305,000
price sold 9/4/18 £497,500
price increase +63% or + £192,500 or £2,750 PER MONTH
49, Newenham Road, Surrey KT23 4NH0 -
argh yes, a classic non sequitur reply from Crashy. He asks for a link then ignores the response because it means he'd have to listenCrashy_Time wrote: »0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »The perceived wisdom on here is that new builds lose value as soon as you buy them, and if you add Brexit and U.S pushing for rate rises I think you are being pretty ambitious with your pricing in this case.
Not all the time. We've just bought a 6 year old house where the previous (first) owners paid £85k less in 2012.0 -
There's a big difference between 6 years of house price inflation and six months !paddyandstumpy wrote: »Not all the time. We've just bought a 6 year old house where the previous (first) owners paid £85k less in 2012.0 -
poor old Crashy, head buried so far in the sand he should be able to smell Australia
3 Bed semi
5 years, 10 months, & 7 days
price paid 2/7/12 £305,000
price sold 9/4/18 £497,500
price increase +63% or + £192,500 or £2,750 PER MONTH
49, Newenham Road, Surrey KT23 4NH
That isn`t a link, and the post I replied to said they had JUST sold their house for 305,000, not sold it 6 years ago for 305,000?0 -
i was not linking to their house, I was giving you the info you need to go look at one of thousands of properties which have increased in price over all the years you have been predicting a price crash. As ever, you refuse to take note of facts that disprove your stanceCrashy_Time wrote: »That isn`t a link, and the post I replied to said they had JUST sold their house for 305,000, not sold it 6 years ago for 305,000?
the house in my example sold 2 months ago having risen over the last 6 years, but of course you'll deny that, as prices are crashing according to you despite the evidence to the contrary0 -
i was not linking to their house, I was giving you the info you need to go look at one of thousands of properties which have increased in price over all the years you have been predicting a price crash. As ever, you refuse to take note of facts that disprove your stance
the house in my example sold 2 months ago having risen over the last 6 years, but of course you'll deny that, as prices are crashing according to you despite the evidence to the contrary
You could link house prices rises till your fingers bled and he'd still just move the goalposts , ignore, link completely unrelated article etc.
I don't know why you guys bother engaging with him. I mean, who is so invested in a crash that they call themselves "crashy time" and becoming a running joke (oo a house price thread, how long before crashy rolls in?).
The sad thing is, eventually there will be a crash/correction (naive to think there ever wont be), and he'll be gloating for years about how "right" he was.0
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