Still no buyer for my home

babyblade41

I agree with @Slinky @newsgroupmonkey_ but I presume we are seasoned buyers/sellers.  This type of house needs a little vision to get people through the door after price has been revised 

GDB2222

babyblade41 said:

I agree with @Slinky @newsgroupmonkey_ but I presume we are seasoned buyers/sellers.  This type of house needs a little vision to get people through the door after price has been revised 

I'm curious what happens if the OP reduces the asking price to £1. I suppose that the news would get taken up by several national newspapers, and there'd be thousands of people interested.  What do you suppose the end result would be?  .

babyblade41

GDB2222 said:

babyblade41 said:

I agree with @Slinky @newsgroupmonkey_ but I presume we are seasoned buyers/sellers.  This type of house needs a little vision to get people through the door after price has been revised 

I'm curious what happens if the OP reduces the asking price to £1. I suppose that the news would get taken up by several national newspapers, and there'd be thousands of people interested.  What do you suppose the end result would be?  .

probably..I'd be first in with an offer !!

GDB2222

Slinky said:

People are forgetting we live in a very visual world now. All those perfect shots of perfect people living their perfect lives on Instagram. There are loads of people who cannot visualise how the house would look empty or with their stuff in it. If they see a cluttered ugly dirty outdated house (not suggesting this refers to the OP's house) they can't envisage living their 'best life' in it.

Unfortunately to sell an average house you have to dress it to the best of your ability to attract the most potential purchasers, otherwise you are relying on finding some of the far fewer people who claim to look beyond all the vendor's stuff to envisage their own life there, and cutting down your potential pool, will lower the price you achieve.

If there’s another house that is exactly the same layout just down the road, can’t you use that as a sort of show house? "Ours is the same as that, but cheaper."

Thrugelmir

Slinky said:

People are forgetting we live in a very visual world now. 

Era's come and go. Cheap energy has encouraged large open plan living spaces, mimimal number of doors, for example. One question that will be asked in the future is what's your energy consumption. £'s will trump perfection for many. 

Silvertabby

Is 'staging' a house really so important?  Surely it's the house, the location and the price that matter?

Our estate is nearly 30 years old.  Like most people, we have fitted new windows/kitchen/bathrooms/extensions over the years.  The same house style as our own recently came onto the market, so we had a look at the on-line pictures (as you do).

Newish windows, but old style conservatory, and original kitchen, bathroom and en-suite.  House was empty of furniture and whilst it looked clean and well maintained, the decor was still very much rooted in the 1990s.

We thought it was well overpriced.  It sold in less than a week.

Niv

The three things that jumped out to me were:
- Junk on top of kitchen wall units - makes me think the kitchen is too small / no storage
- Washing machine does not appear to fit the gap very well
- the rear steps has the render falling off

I would:
- Remove junk from the top of the wall units (please don't remove the wall units i think that's daft)
- See if you can push the washing machine back into the gap further
- Patch up the render and consider painting that bit of the wall (not sure how it interfaces with the main house if it means painting the whole house I would probably not do the painting bit!)

Overall its fine inside - yea ok the bathroom isn't top end but it looks clean and serviceable with lots of life in it, a few bits in the rooms to make it look a bit lived in is fine - however if you feel that the rooms feel crampt when you are in them then consider removal of dressing tables etc.. 

A lot of people lack vision when they view houses so anything you can do to sell a vision / show the space off is not a bad thing.

Although its a tiny thing visually, i think the junk on the kitchen wall units would put me off most as that feeling of not enough space to store a few pans would just feel like why bother buying a place that will never be able to be kept tidy.

Niv

Actually on a second flick through that chair that looks like its blocking the doorway really needs to go. That furniture looks quite big and photo 8 makes it look like you cant even get to the door without climbing over a chair (i know that's obviously not right but it looks that way which again makes the room feel small).