Bright/unique colours on ad for house

lincroft1710

pinkteapot wrote: »

p.s. Floor plan makes it look like the first floor is split level or something... it looks like from beds 2 and 3 you’d have to go up or down some stairs to get to the bathroom. Is that right?

It is split level, the ground rises quite steeply at the rear.

lincroft1710

The colour scheme wouldn't bother me. If (and I stress "if") next door were fervent Welsh Nationalists that would. But the most off putting aspect for me is the public right of way at the side and the open space beyond. i also don't like brown windows.

As with many other properties on the market, the true negatives cannot usually be altered.

Davesnave

comedyseeker123 wrote: »

Lol displaying your country’s flag in other countries is something positive, obviously not in England.

The display of any flag is just an indicator of attitudes that might lie behind it, nothing more. Anyone looking to buy a property should look at the visual clues in the neighbourhood and try to interpret them, accepting that some early ideas will probably prove wrong.

That's why I'd want to speak to the flag owner, rather than assume too much.

But the flag shouldn't be in the ad in the first place.

Fosterdog

The front garden needs weeding, fences painted and some nice plant pots added to stop it looking so desolate, maybe even get a car parked to show how big it is as a driveway. Same really for the back garden, tidy up, paint the fancies, add some colour.

Kitchen needs the bin moving and the random basket on the worktop moved.

Dining room could really do with a square or rectangle table but I agree with the suggestion of moving the chairs out and adding a fruit bowl or vase to the table.

The bluey green bedroom could do with being dressed as an actual bedroom so people get an idea of the layout. Also the random avocado cushion and vase? in front of the radiator need moving.

Bathroom needs the blue basket (what I'm assuming is a laundry hamper) moved/packed away for the photos. The mirror needs to be put up on the wall not just leaning behind the taps. If you don't want to do anything permanent just use sticky pads to hold if if it's not too heavy.

Photos 11,12,13 are not needed and are just repeats of previous photos.

Is the floor plan wrong? It shows the lounge with the patio doors opening to the front but the photos show the lounge as just a window and the dining room as having the patio doors and what's with the small fenced off bit at the front? No photos to show if it's a nice seating area, or if it's where bins are stored, or flowerbeds, and how is it accessed if it is off the lounge with no patio doors?

The welsh flag, is it a permanent fixture or was it just put up during a rugby match? I know lots of homes that have them displayed just for match days but a permanent display would make me wonder if the neighbours are nationalists which is obviously offputting to anyone except other nationalists.

Mutton_Geoff

OP, take a lot of the posts on this forum with a pinch of salt. There are hundreds of armchair house doctors here who think that a potted plant, bit of paint, a shuffle of furniture and "declutter" will magically sell a house.


Those issues are important to sort out, preferably before the agent photographs it, but there is only one thing that determines whether a house will sell and that is the price. Another analogy is people that assume a carefully crafted CV gets you a job. It doesn't. A good CV gets you an interview. The interview gets you the job.


You need viewers through the door and it's location and price that are the main factors. You can dress and declutter all you like but if it's overpriced for the area, it ain't going to sell.


My other comment is some agents blitz their RM listings with dozens of photos. This leaves nothing to the imagination and may put some viewers off on the basis they think they've seen it all already. Human nature is curious, give your prospects a reason why they must come and view. For that, you need a good agent but sadly most of them are inexperienced in the "marketing" part of sales and marketing.

phoebe1989seb

Waterlily24 wrote: »

The colours wouldn't put me off at all - much better than magnolia!

This ^

Whilst the colours are definitely not to my taste, I agree they are better than magnolia, although that's probably the minority view

It's not my kind of house, but if it were I certainly wouldn't be deterred from viewing because of the colours. Our current house (admittedly a repossession that had been rented out for the last few years of the previous owners' tenure) had some interesting paint shades (Barney purple and pooh brown to name but two!), but these were *relatively* easily painted over. The rooms in question are now India Yellow and Oval Room Blue (both F&B) which I'm sure wouldn't be to many buyers' tastes either..... although we're not planning on selling so that's a academic

I do know that when we were selling our large family home a few years back our EA advised us to do the following - repaint the main family bathroom cream (it was Laura Ashley 'Raspberry') and change the green Turkey rug style fitted carpet for something more neutral. We did both - reusing the expensive carpet in our new home. When we mentioned to our buyers what we'd done they told us they'd have preferred it left as it was - but like us they were fairly bohemian, lol!

Imho, OP, looking at previous sold prices, price is your main issue, coupled with some pretty poor photos......

A hanging basket with colourful planting would definitely brighten up the frontage.

Owain_Moneysaver

comedyseeker123 wrote: »

Lol displaying your country’s flag in other countries is something positive, obviously not in England.

It's not in England (and neither am I right now)

However, flags being draped out of windows (it's not even on a flagpole !!!!!!) suggests at the best beery barbecues on football/rugby days, and at worse rampant nationalists.

Definately more Onslow than Hyacinth.

Owain_Moneysaver

Fosterdog wrote: »

would make me wonder if the neighbours are nationalists which is obviously offputting to anyone except other nationalists.

Or even to nationalists of another nation :rotfl:

davidmcn

comedyseeker123 wrote: »

Lol displaying your country’s flag in other countries is something positive, obviously not in England.

What does England have to do with anything?

I haven't noticed other countries typically displaying their flags by hanging a poundshop version on the outside of their bedroom window, and leaving it there until it falls to bits. I expect in some places that would constitute disrespecting their flag.

comedyseeker123

We should all be nationalists. And hanging a flag isn’t really a biggie. It just shows the neighbours are a little different.

100% this attitude that flying a flag is somehow a weird thing to do is a shame. I lived overseas where it was encouraged.