Why aren’t we getting any viewings?

Slithery

lottie182 said:
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?

Yes, I do. The work you've done warrants a small increase, but nowhere near the amount you are asking for.

GDB2222

I'd be comparing your house with this one, which is slightly bigger:
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72285201.html

It is semi-detached, but it has a proper garden, and it's in a quiet tree-lined, residential street. I don't know the area well, but I much, much prefer the house. 

getmore4less

I only went out 3 miles looking for examples, is there anything compelling about Kettering to pull people in?

theoretica

Looking at the semi-detached 88a it doesn't seem you are alone in this problem - listed October 2019, bought in 2014 for £515k, some landscaping and changes though less extensive than yours. Current asking price £600k.  So maybe it is an issue of large houses on that road, rather than yours in particular.  Sadly that is the sort of problem you can't do anything about!

NinjaTune

It's a beautiful house and you've done a lovely renovation.  Unfortunately your blood, sweat and tears living in a building site for however long won't be factored into the price uplift.

My first thought was 'big house, small garden' - I hadn't even noticed the lack of parking.  Nothing you can do about that, I appreciate.  Adding ore parking would make the garden space even smaller.  I'd consider dropping the price to 575k but you may have to take an offer of 550k.  Alternatively, sit it out and hope a buyer comes along who falls in love with it who is prepared to pay that sort of price.

best_egg

getmore4less said:

I only went out 3 miles looking for examples, is there anything compelling about Kettering to pull people in?

Not really.  It isn’t long by train to London (used to be just under an hour) but that’s about it now.  The town centre is dying (has been for years) & a lots of the big shops have gone.

For the £600k this house is on for, you can get a lovely house in the NN14 postcode - I suspect people moving from London would rather the more rural areas to Rockingham road.

getmore4less

Another issue that may put people off is the house next door is the boundary, and it looks like there is a stair access(pic 23) that also highlight the shadow that the garden will be in for a lot of the day.  

Done a bit of digging,  street view back to 2009 shows a carpark and garage shame some of that was not retained for better parking, garage and garden

planning history:
Council has it as a education unit then hostel then residential/community support unit not clear if any of those changes happened by the time it went back to residential 2016.

Around 2014 planning was for the site to be split and new houses built on the carpark and the the house converted to 3 flats.

Those plans did not seem to happen and new plans were submitted 2015. for 2 houses that are there now and the main house to go back to residential

These suggest the full site was still a single unit in 2015/2016

April 2016/0174  plans for the house were submitted(permitted development) and they are close to what the house looks like now.

Application Nº	Applicant
KET/2016/0174	A P Lewis & Sons Ltd, - Meadhurst, 116 Rockingham Road, Kettering
KET/2016/0035	AP Lewis & Sons Ltd - Meadhurst, 116 Rockingham Road, Kettering
KET/2015/0376	A P Lewis & Sons Ltd - Meadhurst, 116 Rockingham Road, Kettering
KET/2014/0517	Northamptonshire County Council - 116 Rockingham Road, Kettering
KET/2014/0418	Northamptonshire County Council, - 116 Rockingham Road, Kettering
KE/91/0771/C	NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL - 116 ROCKINGHAM ROAD KETTERING
KE/90/1095/C	NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL - 116 ROCKINGHAM ROAD KETTERING

there is stuff out there about the new build  they sold for £245k(2a) & £300k(2b)
https://www.buildenergy.co.uk/projects/9183/

devildolly

Where is the rest of the garden? The house and garden don't marry up. If your targeting families that can use most of the bedrooms, they will need outdoor space (especially after this year). 

Caz3121

devildolly said:

Where is the rest of the garden? 

if you read the post directly before yours you will see it was split off for building other houses (before OP purchased)

GDB2222

I don’t think Dolly was literally asking about where the rest of the garden is. It was a rhetorical question.