Why is it so hard to sell a 3 bed semi in Leeds?

Sexyscorp66 wrote: »

Look guys
If you are just going to insult me for the sake of winding me up-don't bother!!
108 is taking the absolute puss for a 3 bedroom semi/terrace whatever and I'm sure you wouldn't even consider it if it were yours.
What I was expecting was sensible suggestions about how to sell it for 130k not people acting like !!!!!! and insulting me.
If you are really such professional punters how come you know so much more than the agents who put it on for 139 originally?-don't you think they would have told me if it was I being unrealistic at 130?

With that sort of attitude I would not give you viewing time.

It will be interesting to see how long it remains for sale.

OP you need to get into the real world.

silvercar wrote: »

Immaculate.....elegant decor????

It's got an avocado bathroom suite!

This ^

Sadly, I have to agree with everything already mentioned. I would see it as a renovation project and for me that would mean changing everything including the windows......I hate UPVC and would want to replace with timber Of course just because I don't like the windows doesn't mean the price should reflect changes I would want to make, but nonetheless for a house that is described as "immaculate" and "elegant" I would expect something far more classical/timeless not dated and obviously untouched for several [STRIKE]decades[/STRIKE] years!

I sympathise though, as we had to sell my parents' home of 40+ years in 2012 when they both had to go into a nursing home. Their house had its fair share of (expensive ) patterned carpets and green emulsioned anaglypta! However, it also had a 2007-fitted shower room, recently fitted windows (brown UPVC!), a solid wood kitchen that could have easily been painted to give a more on trend look and timber internal doors matched to original 1920s ones they took out when they 'renovated' forty years previously It was also in an area very popular with families looking for their next step on the ladder and houses rarely came in the market, borne out by the fact that some neighbouring houses had not changed hands for twenty-odd years.

We considered neutralising everything, but on the advice of our (trusted) EA we decided against. Nor did we remove the dated but good quality furniture - indeed our eventual (first time) buyers asked if they could buy some of it - although we did do a serious declutter! The garden was already tidy as we had been keeping on top of that for them......

Even so it took a (small) price drop to see significant interest. Then we ended up with back-to-back viewings and several asking price offers.

We also sold our own house in 2014. It was a fully restored and tastefully extended, fairly large rural period house presented in a timeless style. It truly was "immaculate", but even so we had to reduce the price to secure a buyer as the market in rural Wiltshire was very slow. As we seriously wanted to move on we were prepared to be realistic in our expectations. Once we did this we accepted an asking price offer within five days.

Sorry, but it's definitely the price, OP.......reduce it to something more realistic and it should sell quickly.

Good luck!

Just in case anyone missed this.

It is an end terraced not a semi detached.
It has a shared drive.
It looks to me like an ex local authority house. I say this because if you look on street view you can see that it is in an area with a large more modern council estate further up the main road.
This is not what I would call a desirable area.
There is a dryer in one of the bedrooms which gives the impression that the kitchen is not big enough for all of the appliances which also means that most people would want to knock about 10k off the purchase price for a new kitchen. That is before you start on the rest of the house.
There is only off street parking for one car and that is in the back garden. This is due to the shared drive problem.

The reasons why I wouldn't even view it at any price include the area that it is in, the shared drive and the distance from the nearest train station.

So since there are 3 reasons why I wouldn't even go to look at it whatever the price you need to work out what price will get people who might be interested to go and view it. Obviously 130K is too much because people haven't been going for a look apart from the person who offered 108K.

A house is not worth what you think it is worth or what the estate agent told you it is worth. A house is worth what someone will give you for it. So if the most that someone will give you for a house in that condition in that area is 108K then that is what it is worth not the imaginary number that the estate agent has come up with.

I personally think that for that type of area 108K is a very very good offer. I would have expected it to be nearer to 100K. The point is that if you have got 130K to spend on a 3 bed house you wouldn't spend it there. So you have got to have a cheaper price than that IF you want to sell it.

This was your dad's house. It did him well. You now sell it for what you can get for it. What you get for it doesn't devalue the life that your dad had living in it. It was his choice but it now needs to be upgraded to suit someone else.

Cakeguts wrote: »

Just in case anyone missed this.

It is an end terraced not a semi detached.
It has a shared drive.
It looks to me like an ex local authority house. I say this because if you look on street view you can see that it is in an area with a large more modern council estate further up the main road.
This is not what I would call a desirable area.
There is a dryer in one of the bedrooms which gives the impression that the kitchen is not big enough for all of the appliances which also means that most people would want to knock about 10k off the purchase price for a new kitchen. That is before you start on the rest of the house.
There is only off street parking for one car and that is in the back garden. This is due to the shared drive problem.

The reasons why I wouldn't even view it at any price include the area that it is in, the shared drive and the distance from the nearest train station.

So since there are 3 reasons why I wouldn't even go to look at it whatever the price you need to work out what price will get people who might be interested to go and view it. Obviously 130K is too much because people haven't been going for a look apart from the person who offered 108K.

A house is not worth what you think it is worth or what the estate agent told you it is worth. A house is worth what someone will give you for it. So if the most that someone will give you for a house in that condition in that area is 108K then that is what it is worth not the imaginary number that the estate agent has come up with.

I personally think that for that type of area 108K is a very very good offer. I would have expected it to be nearer to 100K. The point is that if you have got 130K to spend on a 3 bed house you wouldn't spend it there. So you have got to have a cheaper price than that IF you want to sell it.

This was your dad's house. It did him well. You now sell it for what you can get for it. What you get for it doesn't devalue the life that your dad had living in it. It was his choice but it now needs to be upgraded to suit someone else.

Spot on. I too thought it looked like an ex-local authority house. So that will limit the number of buyers before you have even started.

OP, it's not dishonouring to your dad to sell it cheap. Let it go and then it can be a lovely family home for someone else.

Another option is to keep it and rent it out - still it will be a nice home for someone, but you'll have to update it a bit.

I hope you have some good news soon.