Honest advice re housing market

Cakeguts

The kitchen is small compared to the size of the house as it is now and there is no room for the fridge freezer in the kitchen area that is in the dining area. I think if you have nearly £600k to spend on a 3 bed house you are probably going to want a bigger kitchen that will take a fridge freezer.

PasturesNew

If jigging it all round... that frontage is "wasted space"... I'd narrow the driveway down and have the two right hand windows overlooking a more private garden area, which had more than a little fence between grass and gravel. The gravel's too wide... unless you've got a collection of buses.

Cakeguts

I had a job to find it on street view because it used to have a nice garden and now it just has that prison yard type carpark in the front. On the street view pictures it is actually much more attractive with an attractive garden. You can see that it was orginally a 1960s or 1970s building with picture windows like the rest of the estate. Now it has no character at all and no kerb appeal.

Cakeguts

Something peculiar with the bathroom window as well as the towel rail being in weird place. The whole thing to me looks as if it needs a serious amount of money spent on it. It still has the original fireplace I would think from when the house was built. Those have been out of fashion for about 40 years.



Basically the house needs updating and it needs to have the front and back gardens designed.



Because it needs so much doing to it I can't see it fetching that price which is more than anything has ever sold for in that road.

babyblade41

Right here goes..please don't be offended . It's up for sale so you need to know what others are looking and saying honestly.

My immediate response screams updating .. I'm not sure who designed the kitchen but it is wrong and a bad use of space , it's similar to the dimensions of what mine will be although mine is a bit wider .

Picture 5 is very much like a waiting room in a council office so instantly remove the chairs and make something of that wall... book case is a good idea.

Living room is very dated ..

I think you can do one of two things..take it off the market and try and fix some obvious problems or drop by quite a considerable amount... in a nutshell it is overpriced .

If you don't need to sell just yet I would think of doing some jiggery pockery to improve what others have stated before me or just drop the price

Cakeguts

What people say about your house on here is what your potential viewers are thinking when they look at the photos.

MobileSaver

treecol wrote: »

Ok here it is...nervously waiting for opinions!

Fair play for being so brave!

Ultimately you are trying to sell something and, unless bowled over at first sight, human nature is that people raise objections to justify why they shouldn't buy something.

As PasturesNew says, that house at that price simply doesn't have any "wow" but does have lots of niggles that together will be the reason you are getting little interest; the following is not meant to be mean but hopefully constructive criticism to give you an impartial insight into any future buyers thought process.

1. Cheap kitchen - laminate worktop on a well over half a million pound house?!?
2. The patio photo shows only a tiny area getting any sun, is it in shade most of the day?
3. Badly designed kitchen - fridge/freezer in the dining area?!?
4. Doctor's waiting room - you half expect a receptionist to appear shouting "next!"
5. The tiniest bathroom windows I've ever seen in a house - and again, this is a £575k house!
6. Kitchen Table - very personal taste, stick a white tablecloth over it with a bowl of fresh fruit on top for staging purposes.
7. Sun Lounger Photos - just weird, who would walk barefoot over stone chippings to lie in the sun when you have plenty of lawn elsewhere.
8. Loo roll holders - !!!!!!, one is on the end of the bath right below a shower head and another is half way up a wall, just weird.
9. The garage - on the floorplan seems to be way too big compared to the rest of the house, could the space have been used better?
10. Overhead Wires - are they electrical or phone wires over the house and garden?

On the positive side, the lounge looks nice and spacious in the photos and the two bedrooms look great with those big sliding glass doors.

How does yours compare to 8 Malmesbury Road which sold for £60k less?

gwynlas

The EA has not done you any favours with the photographs. House on edge of field next to large car park springs to mind. Main selling point seems to be size of plot,
Look at what else in listed in the area and how homes are presented, I would also look further towards Ferndown as green trees and character homes appear more attractive.
Again personally I would take it off the market, address some issues raised by others and re market some time in the future,

JGB1955

You're pitching yourself £15K above a 4 bed chalet bungalow in Woolsbridge Road which has oodles more kerb appeal, let alone a more practical layout and attractive garden.

babyblade41

The first picture looks like an artists impression...a bit like the SIMS.... photographer needs a new career