Advice needed on Selling Bungalow

tarsh

youth_leader said:

Don't do anything to the kitchen tarsh, spend the least possible and keep the money for your ongoing purchase. 

I'm on a Frenchic paint facebook page, and lots of people are painting their kitchens, as well as 'vinyl' wrapping the worktops.  When I viewed this bungalow the vendor was very Covid nervous and rushed me around.  I didn't want to distress her further with a pre exchange viewing but wish I hadn't been as considerate.  First night here I 'melted' the bottom of the kitchen cupboard with the toaster!  I'd left a solid oak kitchen at my previous house and hadn't realised this was MDF with plastic. Worktop is MDF with plastic on it too.   I'll be Frenchic-ing it when the weather is warmer  

Had to look up 'Frenchic' - seen lot's of articles about people painting kitchen doors, but never heard that name before. Might be the way forward

jonnydeppiwish!

tarsh said:

markin said:

It seems every house on the road has had the loft done, so instantly it must be the lowest valued house? Is the street full of young or old? I thought the young were snapping up all the bungalows to add that loft bedroom and have a large garden?

Parking seems a problem to me, stacking cars is a real pain and the street looks a little tight for parking on, A 2 car parking space on the grass would solve that and less garden to look after.

I wonder if you could get planning for a 2 car Garage? Is the plot wide enough for my plans? And i mean at 90°not head on for both options.

A lot of the houses in our road are chalet bungalows, built that way & a few have had the rooms added.

There's a lot of scope for building out of the front as we're quite a way behind the building line & up into the roof. We had planned on extending before finally deciding to move & thought prospective purchasers would see the potential too. In fact most of the viewers have talked about extending, but none have put in offers (yet :-)).

I don't see why you couldn't get permission to put a garage in the front garden. It would'nt be blocking anyone's view as it would be against the 6' fence. The front is 12.3m wide, so there should be room

Don’t be so sure about the garage - I know it varies Council to Council but I had lots of back and forth and that was with an existing single garage 3m from the road.

Sarah1Mitty2

mi-key said:

Emily_Joy said:

mi-key said:

I still don't think you will find sellers reducing a £525K ( even if that is optimistic ) down to £400K. Unless the seller is really desperate to sell, or its a probate property they just want to get rid of at any price so its all profit.
House prices have not dropped anywhere near 25%

How about:

Yes, there will always be individual cases as I said. Just plucking one from the internet doesn't reflect what is happening as a whole. I'm sure I could look at thousands of listings on rightmove for houses at £575K that havent been reduced at all...

Try using PropertyLog, you will find it isn`t just individual cases.

tarsh

Sorry it's been so long for an update, but 18 months after we put our bungalow on the market we have finally completed our home moving story.

Long story short, we did change the kitchen a bit; removed some cupboards, painted the doors white & painted the walls, then had new photos taken by the estate agent.

We dropped the price a couple of times, had some offers that fell through & finally sold at £410k, so quite a drop in the end, but we're glad to be moved to where we want to be. We rented a place & completed our sale in November '23.

We also watched as the prices where we're buying dropped quite a lot, similarly to where we sold (apart from the stubborn one's which are still for sale).

Finally completed on our new bungalow yesterday, so we're all very happy & glad it's all over.

Thanks again for everyone's help along the way, this forum is an amazing resource because of all of you lovely people

ReadySteadyPop

Sarah1Mitty2 said:

mi-key said:

Emily_Joy said:

mi-key said:

I still don't think you will find sellers reducing a £525K ( even if that is optimistic ) down to £400K. Unless the seller is really desperate to sell, or its a probate property they just want to get rid of at any price so its all profit.
House prices have not dropped anywhere near 25%

How about:

Yes, there will always be individual cases as I said. Just plucking one from the internet doesn't reflect what is happening as a whole. I'm sure I could look at thousands of listings on rightmove for houses at £575K that havent been reduced at all...

Try using PropertyLog, you will find it isn`t just individual cases.

Great tool, thanks!

youth_leader

Glad to hear you are in your new bungalow.  I hope when I put this bungalow on the market it sells quickly, I do need to move to the next town which has far more facilties.

Tiglet2

@tarsh, thank you for coming back and updating us.  Wishing you many happy years in your new home.

tarsh

youth_leader said:

Glad to hear you are in your new bungalow.  I hope when I put this bungalow on the market it sells quickly, I do need to move to the next town which has far more facilties.

Thanks so much, you were very supportive. I do hope you get to move quickly, hopefully the market will pick up again for you

tarsh

Tiglet2 said:

@tarsh, thank you for coming back and updating us.  Wishing you many happy years in your new home.

Thank you.

uralmaid

Happy New Home!