Feedback on our property

Treacle10

Thank you for feedback, no further comments are needed about how rubbish our house is or how small the garden is.

Doozergirl

Is that the whole garden?

It's 2019. There's no excuse for an agent not using a wide angle lens. It doesn't matter if everyone's house is the same size if yours looks smaller because they've taken photos with a potato and everyone else has wide angle shots.

You must look at the way that agents present their properties online before engaging them.

ProDave

Picture 7 gives the impression you have a TINY garden and the small space is entirely a small bit of decking.

If you have more garden than that, you need to show it. I would not look at a house if I thought that was the only garden.

Sofee3

Yeah photos are pretty poor, kitchen could do with a declutter and washing machine emptied. Garden is tiny looking.

Doozergirl

If yours is the same as 142 (which I suspect it is) it sold for £30k less in January and looks bigger because they used a wide angle lens.

Simby

Get the pictures retaken.. I suspect this is actually a nice house, from the pictures I have no idea

Some are cut off at the top and very few are pictures of the whole room , they seem cropped in some strange way

Treacle10

That’s the whole garden. It’s the same as 142 but theirs is a terrace where ours is semi detached with driveway and garage on the side as opposed to round the back.

melanzana

Treacle, it's a lovely house. But you want to sell it right? What market are you aiming it at, FTB or families?

Just a few points, please smooth out the duvet. It's a pet hate of mine!

Remove everything from kitchen sides apart from kettle and fruit bowl.

I wouldn't have so much focus on the lovely Princess painting either. May not be to everyone's taste, but obviously is to your little girl!

Otherwise it looks great to me. I suppose you have to compare it with similar houses in your area and see what the differences are including price.

First impressions are lasting!

Best of luck.

Crashy_Time

Overpriced for the current climate maybe? I know Hampshire was one of the biggest bubbles in the country but people are now starting to digest the fact that a WTO Brexit is back on the table, and that is maybe affecting their desire to spend/borrow?

Cakeguts

Treacle10 wrote: »

That’s the whole garden. It’s the same as 142 but theirs is a terrace where ours is semi detached with driveway and garage on the side as opposed to round the back.

Your house is not semidetached it is terraced or another type of terrace that are called linked. For a true semi you have to be able to walk from the front of the house to the back garden without going through any other building. You can't do that with yours because you would have to go through the garage.



Someone who is looking for a semidetached house will not look at yours because of the link of the garage to the next house making a terrace.



So starting from the point that your house is more like a terraced house than a semidetached how much cheaper does the price need to be?



It will sell for about a bit more than 142 simply because it has parking on the drive but it won't sell for as much as a semidetached because of the problem of the garage.



How many cars can you get on your drive? If it only one then you don't have anything better than 142 because people will just park in the road instead.

Puflet

I love murals, and have been commissioned to paint them on several occasions. I have painted one which goes over all the walls and the ceiling in the bathroom (it's a long story! ) However, when I was renting my property out, the letting agent advised me to paint over it. I didn't do so, and I've recently put it on the market and it went under offer very quickly; however, it's one of those things like very strongly patterned wallpaper and can put people off.

When the photographer from the EA came round, she was very hot on staging - removing all the unsightly things you need day to day, rearranging objects to look more appealing - and used a wide angle lens. The pics make my property look much larger than it actually is, rather than smaller - to the point that I was wondering if it was misleading! - but it did get potential buyers through the door.

Good luck with your sale!