Critique our house for sale please

hazyjo

Actually really like it (unusual for me LOL). It suits the area. I sold in Chingford last year and have seen the E10/E11 market change dramatically during the time I lived there. The market was slow to sell last year, people were definitely being cautious and priced dipped a bit. I think it's more of a case of being patient than dropping the price. I don't know local prices specifically, but my initial thought was that it would be up for more than it is, so I really don't think you can be a million miles out.


I would be cautious re the lease length if buying, but would ask for you to extend it as part of the sale (if not, I'd prob make a lower offer).


If you can afford to drop the price, definitely do it. You may get offers over if it's popular.


I would be calling it a maisonette btw rather than a flat with its own front door.


They have craftily done streetview to show the park - I would actually be realistic and have it mapped where your property actually is, even though the industrial unit/s won't help.


Good luck!

hazyjo

Mrs_KavP wrote: »

The cost of extending the lease would be about £8-10k, which is factored into to the asking price - I have advised the EA of the estimated cost of extending. If it had already been extended, we would probably be asking more around the £400k mark.

Can you do it as part of the sale? Discuss beforehand with your solicitor and add something to the details like 'Current lease: 87 years remaining. Vendors are happy to arrange and pay for a lease extension as part of the sale if so required'. It will cost you, but surely you'd be dropping at least that amount anyway? Might bring you in a few offers (maybe even offers over), especially if your EAs are any good and let people know who have maybe ruled it out for that reason.

pimento

Why is there a photo of a sewing machine?

I'm another one who gets itchy with all the open shelving (even if the contents are all arranged alphabetically). I'd be mentally costing in the re-decoration and the polyfillaring all the screw holes.

POPPYOSCAR

pimento wrote: »

Why is there a photo of a sewing machine?

I'm another one who gets itchy with all the open shelving (even if the contents are all arranged alphabetically). I'd be mentally costing in the re-decoration and the polyfillaring all the screw holes.

Glad I am not the only one who thought that!

I also think it looks cluttered both inside and out.

Mrs_KavP

The bed under the window is a bit off an odd way to present the one bedroom. Open storage as the main focal point on the biggest wall prevents that room from looking very welcoming as somewhere to sleep. It looks quite overbearing. I can see beyond it, but some people may not. It could go on a different wall quite easily. The bed should be on the big wall facing the door.

We used to have the bed on the wall with the door, but it's super king size (co-sleepers here) and we thought it looked better if you could walk round both sides of the bed, rather than pushed into one corner.

Do you think a curtain across the bedroom shelving might help? The other walls are plasterboard so wont' take the weight of the shelves, which is why it's there, but i know what you mean, it's not pretty but a bit industrial. It was always our intention to cover it up but we never got round to it....now might be the time:)

Can you do it as part of the sale? Discuss beforehand with your solicitor and add something to the details like 'Current lease: 87 years remaining. Vendors are happy to arrange and pay for a lease extension as part of the sale if so required'. It will cost you, but surely you'd be dropping at least that amount anyway? Might bring you in a few offers (maybe even offers over), especially if your EAs are any good and let people know who have maybe ruled it out for that reason.

Good idea, I'll look into doing this.

Thank you for the suggestions, much appreciated!

sammyjammy

I think a curtain would look even worse to be honest.

Cakeguts

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65405818.html Which is more important do you think a private garden or offstreet parking? This one is a lot cheaper than yours and has been reduced.

jamesh

Can you fix the drawer in the kitchen?

quantumlobster

There's a cupboard handle missing in the kitchen, the carpets are dirty and badly fitted, and the garden's a mess. It's not "flawlessly finished".

OTOH, it's a good way of showing how you can fit a lot of stuff into not a lot of space, and it definitely offers a "you could live here like this and it'd be nice" vibe (notwithstanding the second bedroom which needs presenting properly).

The photos are oversharpened, and this makes things look harder and grittier than necessary. It's been noted above that the order is a bit strange. Get the EA to sort the order out and to label each one appropriately. They're also wide-angle, which means that people may feel a bit deflated when they see the rooms in reality (e.g. picture 3), as they'll look smaller in reality. But the main thing is to get them into a logical, labelled order.

SeasideSally

I find the amount of personal things on display to be distracting when trying to see the rooms (and I'm a cluttered person - books everywhere here - so how is a non-cluttered person going to react?). Photographs 6 and 7 emphasise the amount of stuff on show, rather than the room that the shelves are in. We have an agent around here that does that - photographs of peoples shelves and vases of flowers - but buyers aren't buying your personal belongings. Can you box some of it up and put it in storage? The shoe boxes on the bedroom shelves make my head hurt.

Pots and pans - my kitchen is full of them; hanging off everything they are. They're fine for the one using the kitchen, but I'd hide a lot of them away for viewings. A friend of mine put her pots and pans in her washing machine and oven when she had viewings. Thankfully, nobody looked inside the appliances.

I wouldn't be put off by the garden, because I'm a garden obsessive and spend ages out there anyway. Someone who just wants an outdoor space but not the work might be put off.

Because of the order of the photographs, there's no flow to viewing them.