Seller feedback

trix-a-belle

To add to the useful comments already made, make areas have a purpose & stage it so people can envisage how they might live there. It looks like a great place with potential.
Unfortunately its necessary when selling to make it as conventional as possible rather than how you have it day to day to help the hard of imagination. When I last sold I hid anything that needed to be off the kitchen surfaces in my dishwasher for viewings & put a valance or oversize blanket on the bed going all the way to the floor so stuff could be hid away out of view underneath.

Some of the bits in the back garden may have a purpose to you (grey & white thing, random dining chair) but as currently presented it looks lost & unloved, especially with uncut grass front & back. Can the plant & hedge at the front be cut back more? someone could look at it and think it will block light from the window.

The big one as mentioned by others is the lack of kick boards & stuff obviously sticking out from under the units makes the kitchen look unfinished (or that you're under there dealing with problems too often to put them on), the wallpaper is distracting imo but the actual units & their colour are ok and decent. (I am however concerned that kick boards wouldn't meet the edge of the light coloured flooring but maybe it would give it an intentionally framed look with a dark floor edge, dark kick boards & dark cabinets). Also would swapping the bin with the litter trays & add the dishes in that unused appliance space maybe make them look a bit more tucked out of the way & that space purposeful perhaps?
The kitchen blind looks broken or at least roughly handled, try to get the stack sitting neatly & then don't touch it if it doesn't go up nicely on its own. (made beds, smoothed duvet covers and neatly drawn back curtains add to reaffirming it being looked after)
It looks like there is a good amount of cupboards but the underslung racks with the saucepans on & so many appliances on the worktops suggest there isn't enough space, & put washing up away before photos are taken (my EA photographer last time even took away my drying mat & tea towel).

As someone else said, a little dining table & chairs (it only needs to be small with 2 chairs ideally) set up shows a place to eat dinner & entertain instead of only being able to eat on your lap on the sofa, or an area to use as a work from home spot. Would the sofa fit across the room, or angled, in front of the stairs so its facing the window? That layout sets it up more as 2 defined spaces available for use in the living room.

Random mirror facing the wall/frame in the bedroom and bin in front of it looks like junk with nowhere else to go. No bedside tables suggest no room for them (i'm sure there is but just going with the immediate gut reaction of FTBs who have little spacial awareness, it only needs to be a little side table for a couple of £ off marketplace that can be resold again). Does the bed fit the other way round with access to both sides? (I have stayed in too many places where beds only fit under the window & the cold air falls off the window onto your head which isn't nice)
The spare room looks like it has no use with the exercise machines tucked in the corner, the wires across the floor & clothes rail, could the bookshelf end be made into the home office space & set out the gym bits  a little at the other (again looks purposeful)

Sapindus

I agree what others said that the kitchen looks unfinished.  How on earth do you keep the under-unit spaces clean?  Also, I am looking at the front-door-straight-into-living-room scenario, which always puts me off, because I imagine myself coming in wearing a wet coat and where am I going to put it?  Lastly, the description of the garden says lovely views, but we don't see them.  The state of the garden itself doesn't put me off.

Oh and also what is the point of the photo of the fitness equipment??.

thegreenone

As above, sort out the gardens.
Main bed is a mess - you really should've made it properly.  If you can't be bothered to make your bed, the buyer is going to think about what else you can't be bothered about.  Sorry, harsh, but .........

Paint over the pink in the second bedroom and get a small double bed and some side tables*.  Get rid of the big unit and clothes rail.  Leave the desk.  Dress it as a bedroom so people, certainly FTBs, can visualise it as a second bedroom with WFH space.

*see if you can get any on Freecycle/Trashnothing/local FB pages for free/low cost or try Argos/Ikea.  Or if you could borrow from anyone.

MovingForwards

Boxes configured to look like a bed, with a divan bed bottom sheet, duvet and pillows is sufficient to make a room look like a bedroom, without trying to get hold of a bed.

GaleSF63

The kitchen looks fine to me apart from the lack of kickboards. If you can't do anything about that, make sure the things underneath the units aren't visible on viewings and put the oven cloth away. Also I would move the litter tray out of sight for photographs and for viewings. 

Sarah1Mitty2

jonnydeppiwish! said:

Given what you’ve said, and the pictures etc, I’d say it’s simply just overpriced.  If you’re not getting offers, then the price isn’t correct. 

Unfortunately, I think you now have a buyers market.

Unfortunately true I think, people will continue to say "change this, do that, drop this photo" etc. but that isn`t going to change anything about size, location, price and local amenities, which are the main things people look at.

Sarah1Mitty2

angelasocks said:

Oddly enough just had an offer from someone who came to view the property 2 weeks ago.

£100k

So straight in with what some people would call a "cheeky offer", are they a BTL landlord and are they likely to try for more off at a later date?

angelasocks

hazyjo said:

Why strip the doors? You could just paint over them with some paints (although not sure what the doors are finished like). Look at Frenchic, they'll say what it covers.

Thanks Hazyjo - turned out you're right, went to B&Q Friday and a really helpful chap there pointed to some cabinet paint and told me to just sand the high gloss doors no need to strip them.  Got some grey matt which goes with the rest of the kitchen and it looks tonnes better (finishing touches to do today)  Job done :-)  Cost £11.49 - been smiling all weekend.

Ath_Wat

angelasocks said:

Hard to say to be honest if they want to spend 7k on fancy state of the art kitchen don't think I should knock 7k off the price.  Boiler - I could agree to get a new one as part of the deal.  It's only the bath and tiles that are old - rest is fine.  EA haven't advertised it as in need of modernisation.  

But have you priced it at 10K (the cost of the renovation plus the cost of the inconvenience) under a house in good condition?

Whatever the price of the works you need to take that into account in the price of the house, then add a bit on top for the hassle of actually doing it, and the fact that buyers will go for the highest estimate of what it might cost them.

angelasocks

Sarah1Mitty2 said:

angelasocks said:

Oddly enough just had an offer from someone who came to view the property 2 weeks ago.

£100k

So straight in with what some people would call a "cheeky offer", are they a BTL landlord and are they likely to try for more off at a later date?

It was a strange one she said she was buying the house for her son but she looked too young to have an 18 at least year old son but I know I can be overly suspicious of people.