Home on Market Since July. Advice?

ncfcstar

Hi all,

I was hoping someone might be able to give us some advice on what to do next.

Our home is currently on the market (now the only home on our road for sale), and has been for over 6 months now. To be honest we're slowly considering giving up on selling for the time being, but really we do want to move.

We've had over 30 viewings now, with no offers so far, the general feedback being people love the house but it is a bit overlooked. Our plot is relatively large, but the majority of this is towards the front of the property. There are houses behind us, but having lived in a new build previously I would say this is not much different to what you would expect on a new estate.

We've dropped the price twice since we put the house on the market, but it doesn't seem to be a price issue - the feedback has been the same regardless and price hasn't been a factor. The house two doors down sold for £375k in October.

Link for reference - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76661429.html

Any help would be much appreciated.

Grumpelstiltskin

Any one commented on the large trees?

hazyjo

Only two things would put me off, the rest is lovely. Well presented generally.


Downstairs bathroom - big no-no for me.


Main-ish road (despite being set back). Wouldn't risk it with my cats.


Don't know the area to comment on price.

todayisagreatday

Some comments from me:

- Table in kitchen makes kitchen look very narrow. Take it out and just make your dining room a dining room, e.g. get rid of the sofa in there. Can you store it or put it in your lounge.

- The deal-breaker would be that, and unless I'm wrong, you don't appear to have a bathroom upstairs, well a toilet and sink but not a shower or bath. The bathroom is downstairs and for a four bed I'd expect a toilet downstairs and a main bathroom upstairs, infact even two bathrooms upstairs with one being an ensuite. I'd be tempted to lose a bedroom for a bathroom, and for the right price someone may do that but they'll be comparing with others nearby.

antilles

Downstairs bathroom is the first thing that comes to mind.

You will get lots of great advice on here but if a house isn't selling then the only thing to do realistically unless there are glaring improvements is to drop the price. A properly priced property will always sell.

AdrianC

ncfcstar wrote: »

We've had over 30 viewings now, with no offers so far

So the problem isn't the way it presents on the details, it's how it comes across in the flesh.

If we're being picky about the details, then the photos are a bit of a confused jumble with a bunch of duplicates, and "exceptionally spacious" is a bit rich given there's only 160m2 floor area for four bedrooms. That shows in quite a few of those dimensions. The fourth bedroom's a tiddler, and the kitchen's narrow. The showstopper for me on the layout would be the bathroom - never mind the odd layout (you're slaloming round the bog to get to the bath - and a small room's stuffed with both bath and overly-large shower cubicle), this is a four bed house with not one en-suite, and only a shared cloakroom upstairs? Mmmm...

If you want to throw money at it, split bed 3 into two, making bed 4 a better size and putting the rest of that space into the bathroom. It'll work better, but you might find it doesn't help the sale price, because it'll now be three-bed...

But that apart the details look good - and they're obviously working, because you're getting viewings.

the general feedback being people love the house but it is a bit overlooked.

Clue: They may be lying to avoid awkwardness.

So be honest - what do you think people are REALLY being disappointed by when they view? Can you do something about it? If not, it's the price...

tlc678910

Hi,
In the first picture the house looks tidy but the block paving looks quite green. Your first picture would be more inviting and suggest the home is better cared for if it was cleaned up.

It is a tricky time to sell with Brexit on top of a bad time of year. Although you have had lots of viewings perhaps people are window shopping and would need an offer too good to miss (in terms of price) in order to bite.
Tlc

NaughtiusMaximus

The main downside for me are sadly ones you can do nothing about (no upstairs bathroom and overlooked at the rear), other than that I like the property.

One suggestion I do have is just state an asking price rather than 'offers over', general consensus here is buyers don't like this method of pricing.

AdrianC

Oh, and when it comes to comparisons, you forgot to mention next door having sold in September for £280k...

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=54645669&sale=8020840&country=england

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Yes, it's nominally even smaller floor area - 111m2 instead of 162m2 on the EPCs - but the upstairs layout seems better on that undimensioned floorplan. And, yes, it needs a few quid throwing at it to de-Granny it (there's nothing wrong with the kitchen that a tin of Dulux won't solve). There's two garages, ripe for converting, while your floor area includes what used to be yours. And the back garden isn't as crammed-in as yours.

MobileSaver

todayisagreatday wrote: »

deal-breaker ... you don't appear to have a bathroom upstairs... infact even two bathrooms upstairs with one being an ensuite.

I have to agree; buying a four bed today I'd expect at the very least a proper bathroom upstairs and preferably an en-suite for the master bedroom. I would guess many viewers didn't check out the floor-plans before viewing and were put off once the reality of the bathroom situation became apparent.

That's not to say you won't eventually find someone who isn't so fussed about an upstairs bathroom but it may take a while (presumably you bought with the current unusual setup or was it you who moved the bathroom downstairs?)

Cakeguts

Why is there no garage? The other houses in the road seem to have garages and you would expect to get at least a single with a 4 bed detached house.



I don't like the downstairs bathroom.



It is extremely overlooked at the back. The backgarden is small.



Lots of viewings and no offers tends to mean that it is on the market for more than anyone wants to pay for it.


If it was on a new estate it might have a small backgarden but it would also have a double garage, downstairs toilet, ensuite to the master bedroom and a family bathroom upstairs.