My Flat Won't Sell

squiggle888

squiggle888 wrote: »

I'm open to changing the price - the estate agent are adamant though and Edinburgh is expensive. Current plan is to sort out the flat before tackling the price.

As I said above - (may be getting a tad quote happy now)

ciderboy2009

squiggle888 wrote: »

Pictures are taken on my phone so are terrible!

I actually prefer your photo's to the "professional" ones. At least you're using a normal lens and you can see the actual size.

Look at pic 2 on the Rightmove listing - are the seats on your dining chairs really that long or the one nearest the widow that wide? You also seem to have the world's widest loo roll in pic 8.

When I see horrendously bad pics like that it makes me wonder what they're hiding if they're obviously trying to make your flat look much larger than it actually is.

At the end of the day though, it certainly looks like you're overpriced.

Cakeguts

You have to get the price down to offers over around £10k less than the ones that have sold. So if for exampl they sold for £230k you are going to need offers over £220k.



If no one is viewing that means that no one wants to pay what you are asking for your flat. They can get something better that is much cheaper.



If you get viewings but no one offers then it is still overpriced.


What you have to do is to find the price where someone is prepared to make you an offer and as yet you haven't got your price low enough for that.

Silver_Queen

I like your pictures much better too. They make the flat look looked-after and lived in. I like the new layout of the living room and I think the desk looks much better in the bedroom.

Another thing is, I would maybe get a different angle of the building as the first picture. For me, the first picture with the cars gives it a bit of an industrial estate vibe, combined with it being a harbour, it feels like the area is not really somewhere I want to be living.

Owain_Moneysaver

The listing and presentation of the property can be tweaked, but I think the real problem is it's overpriced at a time when the market isn't very active.

The 'master' bedroom especially is small, and the big doors on the built-in cupboards look as though they'll take up a lot of floorspace to swing open.

Development of the site next door blocking the view would be a big concern for me. That and it being left unmaintained in the meantime and becoming an eyesore.

This one is £60k cheaper than yours, looks a more open internal layout, and is ground floor with a patio.This one's £35k cheaper. Both are in the same development. This one's £40k cheaper, in what I think is a more established development (so you know what's already been built around it). It doesn't have a balcony but it's got very big windows.

Modern flats should be so well insulated that gas heating isn't such a bonus, and the lower maintenance costs of electric (and no leaks) may appeal more to buyers.

babyblade41

So many things have to come together all at the same time . I have moved 17 times now and very rarely had to wait very long for a buyer

For me first and foremost get the price right..this will determine how the golden next few weeks will pan out as you probably only have a 4 week window to reach max views online

Before the EA values do your own research at sold prices recently, this will give you a good indication of what the realistic figure is and the EA works for you so don't let them dictate

When staging the photos forget it's your home, put everything personal away and everything off the sides and junk in the dishwasher if necessary (yes I have done this)

Just use the odd splash of colour and de-personalise .

If the price is correct, photos are good and detailed floorpan in place then you should get views.

July and August are always slower but not static

iwilson16

After my last move (2015, Edinburgh) I vowed never to sell to, or buy from, anyone using Mov8 or any other cheap fixed-cost agents .....

The buyer of my old place used Mov8, and there was no end of problems and delays. I think they just have too much work for too few staff ....

PasturesNew

It's like my place "functionally populated with necessary furniture" Some daft buyers don't see the potential.

You're supposed to place a little table/chairs, with a pot of flowers, bottle of wine and two glasses on that balcony, at sunset. Then photograph it and hand those items back to the people you borrowed them from. So WHY didn't you do that with the photo 14 opportunity? Sunset over the water.... suck those buying puppies into the dream.

edgex

squiggle888 wrote: »

I've moved the desk to the spare room and moved the living room around as suggested - is that any better?


Pictures are taken on my phone so are terrible!

Does it feel better?
It certainly looks more like someone lives there. The sofa now has views out, the tv is better angled, the room is better broken up into zones.

sgun

squiggle888 wrote: »

I'm open to changing the price - the estate agent are adamant though and Edinburgh is expensive. Current plan is to sort out the flat before tackling the price.

I know your area and we sold a flat not too far from you last year. I do think you are a bit overpriced, not by much 10k, 15k maybe. The Edinburgh market is bouyant so if your flat was correctly priced it would have sold by now. To have had barely no-one through the door in over two months should be the sign to you that you need to lower your price!

We had Move8 round to value ours and didn't get a good feel for them. They were certainly the ones that flattered the most and as we were quite realistic about the good AND bad points of our flat we took what they had to say with a massive pinch of salt. Don't forget now that they have you they don't want to let you go. We went with Aberdeine Considine on Leith Walk who were very good but also quite liked Simpson and Marwick. Neither of these had the cheapest fees and neither valued our flat the highest but we were under offer in just under two weeks at offers over.

I think your flat looks like a rental property but it is priced as a homeowners property so you are not really appealing to either market. Many people in Edinburgh stage their flats for sale now using interior styling companies so it shouldn't be too hard to have a look on ESPC for the sort of look that help sell.