Why aren’t we getting any viewings?

UnderOffer

Lottie, I can see you’ve put a lot of hard work into renovating and turning the house into your lovely home. Great to see the before pics too. 

It’s hard to have your home discussed like this but when selling we have to remove our emotional attachment and realise that selling is just a business-like transaction. Personally, I think you need to decrease price to get the viewings and possibly the subsequent offer from that one buyer who will love your home. 

theoretica

lottie182 said:

 Some before photos.
it had been empty for 2 years.
Over 3000sqft
Fully re-wired, and fully re-plumbed. New fuse boards, boilers, radiators, water tank, multiple newly glazed windows, all new bathrooms and kitchen and utility. All rooms replastered. Layout changes including chimney removal. Garden Landscaped. 

I’m pretty sure that warrants the price increase. Have you any experience of renovating a house of this size?

Does the ad specifically mention fully rewired and plumbing, boilers, glazing?  That should be attractive to many buyers. 

Garden landscaping, kitchen etc are only worth it to buyers who like the same landscaping rather than having it done their way, making it a reduced pool of potential buyers.

Now it is pointed out about rooms not having images I agree - I wonder if photos showing some empty and so with potential to be used as bedroom/office/cinema/playroom would be worth it rather than converting them or dressing them up one way or another.  Will depend on what they are like at the moment of course.

babyblade41

As probably most have said , too many bedrooms with very little outside space for parking with so many rooms .
We had 6 beds in our last house with  4 bathrooms and a shower room downstairs so again not the best use of space in such a large house  , we also had parking for 6 cars so again plenty of space for visitors to stay and park within the boundary of the house.

Price then will have to reflect this and even if you lower there is still the cost of upkeep when this amount of space hasn't been well used and not needed for many families.

IMO I think you will have to wait and hope the right buyer turns up or drop the price to reflect all the constructive criticism from everyone 

Cakeguts

It is too expensive. You are expecting people to pay the cost of what it cost you upgrade it. When you bought all the fitments for the upgrading you paid new price for them. Someone buying the house from you will be paying 2nd hand price because you have lived there and used them so they are now second hand. Second hand could be worth half of what they were new. This means that if you have spent around £300k doing it up depreciation on the new fitments mean that that £300k that you paid may only be worth £150k to someone buying them used.  This would value your house at nearer to £500k than £600k.

moneysavinghero

lottie182 said:

 Some before photos.
it had been empty for 2 years.
Over 3000sqft
Fully re-wired, and fully re-plumbed. New fuse boards, boilers, radiators, water tank, multiple newly glazed windows, all new bathrooms and kitchen and utility. All rooms replastered. Layout changes including chimney removal. Garden Landscaped. 

I’m pretty sure that warrants the price increase. Have you any experience of renovating a house of this size?

£275,000 (or £375,000 based on original listing price) still seems like a lot for the work done.

Crashy_Time

I suspect this OP may be yet another who is hearing what they don`t want to hear from the internet?

leonj

Too small plot compared to others that are 400k plus, maybe someone could change it to an HMO

getmore4less

leonj said:

Too small plot compared to others that are 400k plus, maybe someone could change it to an HMO

It looks like it was some sort of institution/office/HMO before and there is another HMO up for sale nearby. 

Next stop planning/building regs as that's where prospective buyers will look. 

Bodach_Glay

I have always really liked those old Victorian/Edwardian houses in Kettering and I think your interior is very nice. 
However, Rockingham Road has always been a very tough sell and you have a niche house. 
People who specifically want that Victorian/Edwardian town centre house are going to prefer to be situated in the more upmarket leafy older areas (e.g. Headlands/Queensberry Road) where they will gain not only pleasant walking proximity to the town and station but also the large established formal gardens that yours lacks.
People who buy on Rockingham Road are looking for bargains, unfortunately. 

GDB2222

Over 3000sqft
Fully re-wired, and fully re-plumbed. New fuse boards, boilers, radiators, water tank, multiple newly glazed windows, all new bathrooms and kitchen and utility. All rooms replastered. Layout changes including chimney removal. Garden Landscaped. 

I’m pretty sure that warrants the price increase. Have you any experience of renovating a house of this size?

I have experience of renovating a large house. We spent £60k, although that was 20 years ago. I guess it would be £100k now. Did you spend much more than that?  I'm not sure it matters, really, as the market will tell you eventually whether it's over-priced, and you can't always recoup all your expenditure.

Personally, I am no longer in the market for a large house, although I was at one time, as we have 5 children. I would therefore definitely have looked at yours. I'd have needed the 7 bedrooms, and a gym or cinema would not have enticed me, so don't waste your money doing that. People needing fewer bedrooms will still look at yours. You can never have too many bedrooms, particularly with WFH.

Bear in mind that there's a limited number of people looking in that price bracket for houses of that size, and there's quite a small pool of houses for them to look at, so they'll probably view them all!   The fact that you've only had one viewing would worry me a lot.

Bear in mind that you're on a busy road, opposite a used car sales site. There's a price limit for any road, and you may simply be too expensive.