I want to buy a house!

ursidae

If I were you, I would knock £20-30k off the asking price of each house and sell now before the market goes into complete meltdown by the end of this year. I would then RENT togther for a few years, with the money you made from the house sales in the bank, and then buy again in around 2012.

Hope you get the sales you need :cool:

Eon4

I agree yours looks lovely but as has already been said....you could make that breakfast bar end of kitchen look much more appealing if you either moved the microwave off or took the chairs away...looks really cramped.

Your girlfriends house REALLY could use some colour neutralising in that bedroom...calming, pastel colours at least, its worth the effort now especially with so much competition on the market.

Sorry I am not price savvy enough to comment on that, or the competition in your area, but you definitely have to invest in that RM (or local agents website) first impression to stand a chance of even getting viewers through the door.

Good luck!

iyiarz

Strangly enough, I took the microwave to my girlfiends house as its an oven too, while the kitchen was being installed. I thought it made my kitchen look bigger without it. The breakfast bar however, while small, is a nice place to sit and have a cuppa or breakfast, so I wouldn't remove it.

PasturesNew

iyiarz wrote: »

The breakfast bar however, while small, is a nice place to sit and have a cuppa or breakfast, so I wouldn't remove it.

You need to step back and see the breakfast bar from the viewpoint of potential buyers. If they would see it as too big/small/odd/whatever then in order to try to sell the house by making it more appealing, you have to sometimes make sacrifices.

Take a look at it objectively then decide again.

Update: I had a look, looks all right to me. Another pic without the microwave is needed now. If you can take that and shoot it over to the EA.

Zammo

I love these threads.

Just drop the price !!!!!!.

jammie*dodger

I don't think you realy want to hear peoples opinions do you? We've had to drop our house price from £190 to £173k to get a sale. It sounds like a lot but we've just got an offer accepted on the house we want for £25k under the asking price.

If you don't want to hear the truth (after all the people answering you are the same public that will be looking at your house) don't ask for it.

Rob.

iyiarz

Er... Yes I do jammie*dodger. I appreciate the comments made. Some are perfectly valid and I've taken them on board.

MUDGUTS

iyiarz wrote: »

I'm going to ignore that last stroppy unwarranted post.

Have you tried increasing the price?

It could work, let's face it, you don't want to accept any other advice. Why not try advice you 'like the sound of'.

dubsey

Zammo is right. At the moment price is the key. A couple of years ago people would have paid more for being at the nicer end of a road or an estate, but now they are having problems getting a mortgage at all.

Our local free paper last night has the headline Tough Times As Prices Tumble In Property Market, this is the free paper that normally only lists local events and the odd lost dog story. They have tales of woe from local sellers and EAs, including one long standing EA that has just closed. The EA said it's not only trying to get a buyer in the first place, but after a few weeks they see other properties similar to one they have offered on dropping, or new to the market at a lower price and then want to re-negotiate on theirs. If they don't get it- they pull out.

If you did get someone offer what you are asking, there's every chance a surveyor won't value it at that price if other properties have sold for a lower amount in the last year or so.