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As I keep telling you, I have extended the drive and therefore DO have parking on my side of the boundary. I park my car there every day!!
The only place where you can park your car on your side of the boundary is next to your lawn in the front and there are no photos of this parking place in your set of photos of the house so no one can see that there is any off street parking. On street view the wall is still in place so that doesn't show offstreet parking either. Not only that but on street view there is a photo of two cars parked on the shared access with the cars partly on the neighbour's land.
If you are advertising a house with off street parking buyers want to see it so that they can judge whether they can get their car on it or how many cars they can get on it. You don't need to park your car on it you just have to have a photo of it.0 -
Nonsense, Surely dressing up the property and removing clutter will give a better impression of the property. Believe it or not, not everyone has the vision to see past clutter and furniture packed rooms/gardens. Why not show off the property at its best? Of course price is key but not presenting a place at its best is madness.
Many people can look at a space and visualise what they could do with it though (many years of property TV shows have seen to that) clutter/poor presentation may be a bargaining angle for a discount, but wouldn`t put someone off who likes the price and location IMO.0 -
Because it can make a huge difference, rooms can look a lot smaller if they are cluttered or the photo's are poorly taken, presenting a property in the best light is always going to get you more viewers..
If you went to the supermarket and there was two bananas, one was a bit bruised and miss-shapen, and the other was not, I know which one 99% of people would go for... Obviously the price is a big factor...
So actually the worst part is complete idiots that are desperate for a house price crash giving poor and misguided advice...
Houses tend not to be "bruised and misshapen" though? They tend to be a set size and space in a set location, and can be brought up to any standard the new owner requires, regardless of the mess they may be in now, nothing like bananas actually
You were right about price though 0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »Houses tend not to be "bruised and misshapen" though? They tend to be a set size and space in a set location, and can be brought up to any standard the new owner requires, regardless of the mess they may be in now, nothing like bananas actually You were right about price though
Clearly it was a metaphor, that given the choice between a well presented house and one that is not very well presented all other factors being roughly the same the better presented house will likely get more viewers....
Ironically though even if you bought a house for the same price as a banana you would still have lost out waiting for your fabled house price crash.0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »Many people can look at a space and visualise what they could do with it though (many years of property TV shows have seen to that) clutter/poor presentation may be a bargaining angle for a discount, but wouldn`t put someone off who likes the price and location IMO.
Do you realise you contradicted yourself.....
You say it doesn't matter if a place is cluttered or poorly presented as people can look past it... But then you say people will use the state to try and get a discount. So a you could get less money, so it does matter.0 -
Clearly it was a metaphor, that given the choice between a well presented house and one that is not very well presented all other factors being roughly the same the better presented house will likely get more viewers....
Ironically though even if you bought a house for the same price as a banana you would still have lost out waiting for your fabled house price crash.
Sounds like you are, internally at least, accepting that a big property price correction is in the wind?0 -
Do you realise you contradicted yourself.....
You say it doesn't matter if a place is cluttered or poorly presented as people can look past it... But then you say people will use the state to try and get a discount. So a you could get less money, so it does matter.
I said they could try as poorly presented may also mean repairs etc. not up to date, but the reality is that now most people look at most average houses for sale and just think "Over-priced". The transaction figures bear this out.0 -
Referring to the banana metaphor and re presentation, I think it makes a massive difference.
Bought my last house for slightly less than next-door-but-one a few months after them in 2013, and did it up and sold for £5k more than them in 2017 (we were for sale at the same time). A viewer of their house came to view mine and preferred mine - despite it being a terrace with a paved garden and theirs an end-of-terrace with side access and a grass garden. Theirs felt smaller and a bit more dated in places, despite them being pretty much the same house. They could have bought it for less than mine though!2023 wins: *must start comping again!*0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »Sounds like you are, internally at least, accepting that a big property price correction is in the wind?
Haha you must be a delight at dinner parties....
Stranger: "Nice weather we are having today...."
You: "No the current weather is hiding the fact there would have been a massive house price crash but people are enjoying the sun, as soon as it cools down though there will be a crash...."
I believe a property price correction could occur, or houses could continue to rise, I also believe anyone that thinks they can correctly predict the housing market one way or the other is a fool and should not be listened too.0 -
Crashy_Time wrote: »I said they could try as poorly presented may also mean repairs etc. not up to date, but the reality is that now most people look at most average houses for sale and just think "Over-priced". The transaction figures bear this out.
No what you said was....
"clutter/poor presentation may be a bargaining angle for a discount"
Ah yes the transaction figures again... June was 12.1% higher than April according to HMRC..... Doh..
https://www.showhouse.co.uk/news/hmrc-reports-uptick-in-residential-property-transactions/0
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