House listed for three months with no viewing/enquiries

Smodlet

Cakeguts wrote: »

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-54543369.html Here is a house that is vacant and not far away. It has sold. In my opinion you are not going to get anymore for yours than someone would pay for this one. They are always going to look at a property like this before they look at yours because it is in a nicer road and it has offstreet parking as well as a nice big level back garden.



I am using houses as comparisons because what you have is more like a house it isn't what people think of as a bungalow anymore. The description needs to be changed to a dormer bungalow or house because bungalows don't have stairs in them.

Nice garden (but for the garage in it; big no from me), shame about the house but I agree, it leaves the OP's standing. Sorry, DaveLePen, your back garden looks like an assault course; I can hear the sirens now and as for that road. :eek:

I think Davesnave summed it up. Wrong house for a project. I wish to all the gods I had known Davesnave, Cakeguts and a few others on here 20 years ago. The mistakes I might have avoided... Had I listened.

Someone will want your house but probably not at the price. The steps may be "normal" for the area but that road... Few want to live on a main road. Sorry.

Davesnave

Smodlet wrote: »

I think Davesnave summed it up. Wrong house for a project. I wish to all the gods I had known Davesnave, Cakeguts and a few others on here 20 years ago. The mistakes I might have avoided... Had I listened.

Most people who know a good project now when they see it, probably reached that position by making mistakes, or watching others make them. In the past, HPI often baled people out, so even complete numpties succeded in making money, or at least breaking even.

My Dad was probably the ultimate bad house renovator. He had all the skills, but his ability to select the correct property wasn't good and his blunders were compounded by my Mum's input. Invariably, she hated every house as soon as it was finished, even the one she and Dad designed and self-built from a bare plot.

The only house the two of them ever settled in and enjoyed was, believe it or not, a dormer bungalow I dragged them to view under protest on a Sunday afternoon. I think it was what they'd been searching for all their married life and, yes, it had a pretty steep rear garden too! :rotfl:


Nowt so queer as folk.

-taff

I think I'd have to shoot the EA for their description...
***ITS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU THINK***????
Incredibly deceptive semi-detached dormer bungalow???


It may be much bigger than you think but with good photos in a logical order, that could be shown much more easily than putting things like that on the description. People will also look at the sold price in 2014 and ask where is the extra 70 thousand price coming from.
If you look at similar houses, there's a three bed terrace with 2 garages for the same price.

AnotherJoe

Sunny_Intervals wrote: »

I love avocado bathroom suites. Blue's okay. Pink and brown = rip out immediately.


I saw a black bath the other day. It made me itch. How would you see if there was a spider in it?

I think you would have to set a fire in it each night as a precaution.

Smodlet

Sunny_Intervals wrote: »

I saw a black bath the other day. It made me itch. How would you see if there was a spider in it?

Eeeeeeeewwwwwww!

martindow

Photo 16 looking across the road would put me off as it looks like a factory yard or trading estate. What is that?

davidmcn

martindow wrote: »

Photo 16 looking across the road would put me off as it looks like a factory yard or trading estate. What is that?

It's a dark satanic mill.

Sorry, a "textile finishers": http://www.wtjohnson.co.uk/

Crashy_Time

-taff wrote: »

I think I'd have to shoot the EA for their description...
***ITS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU THINK***????
Incredibly deceptive semi-detached dormer bungalow???


It may be much bigger than you think but with good photos in a logical order, that could be shown much more easily than putting things like that on the description. People will also look at the sold price in 2014 and ask where is the extra 70 thousand price coming from.
If you look at similar houses, there's a three bed terrace with 2 garages for the same price.

Yes, and that is where to focus if you want a sale, no amount of photo shuffling will compare to a sensible price drop IMO.

Pixie5740

I particularly like this snippet from the estate agent's description...

The accommodation briefly comprises: hall, lounge, dining room, kitchen, ground floor bedroom, shower room/wc, first floor - spacious landing, 2 further bedrooms and house bathroom/wc

Who wants a fleeting rooms in their home? Yes I know that 'briefly' also means 'using few words; concisely' which is not something you would associate with an estate agent but it just reads wrong to me.

Speaking of the particulars there is no mention that you converted the property from a 1 bedroom bungalow into a 2 storey, 3 bedroom property. The property is nicely presented inside but I do think the price is too ambitious given the competition and your target market. I agree that families looking for a 3 bedroom property will prefer properties without a lot of steps between street level and the front door.

Cheeky_Monkey

Personally, I think your 'pool' of potential buyers is, in reality, more of a 'puddle' at the current price.

It will exclude:

Anyone who wants a bungalow rather than a house
Anyone with small children
Anyone who wants off road parking
Anyone who is elderly/infirm
Anyone who has mobility issues
Anyone who doesn't want to live on a main road
Anyone who wants a kitchen where you can't touch both side walls at the same time
Anyone who wants a user friendly garden because they're not into rock climbing

I know that's negative, but you did ask