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To think that it’s odd no one has come to look?

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Onwayto50 · 01/07/2025 13:13

I wasn’t sure how to title this - but we put our house on the market 3 weeks ago and have had utter tumbleweed. I’m including a link - am I missing something? I think it’s priced right for the market and I think the photos are lovely but maybe I’m too close to it?? AIBU to think we should have had a least a little interest? Or am I missing something glaring??

Check out this 4 bedroom terraced house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom terraced house for sale in Harrowby Road, Grantham, NG31 for £390,000. Marketed by Newton Fallowell, Grantham

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163176548?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

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Justwaits · 09/07/2025 20:32

Still stagnating with no change in price
OP if you want your house sold, then I suggest you read some of the suggestion and take them on board

Lavenderfarmcottage · 07/07/2025 07:55

FiendsandFairies · 02/07/2025 00:07

We lived in Greencroft Gardens in NW6 in London for three years in the late 90s. It was just gorgeous. We’re now further in the South East but I recently looked at properties for sale in that area.

It was quite shocking as most were full homes priced at around £3-4 million but every single garden was just tired and unloved.

All I could conclude is that these were ‘city homes’ for people who spend much more on the gardens in their second homes in hotter parts of the world.

That’s so interesting, and a great point. I’m fascinated by real estate and how people live and spend their money. You’re probably quite right, if you have a country home and travel etc then the value of a garden isn’t that high. I do wonder the English lifestyle and how you all entertain children etc - lots of soft play centres and perhaps your infrastructure is designed with plenty of places to go.

ThatNaughtyTabby · 06/07/2025 10:06

I’m local to the area and think it’s a lovely house - we bought ours 3 years ago around that price point and got a similar sized house albeit a different style more modern and detached. I think it’s just the market at the moment people being more cautious etc

queenoftheanalogy · 05/07/2025 23:29

diddl · 05/07/2025 17:03

The video is (imo) dreadful.

No commentary (unless I gave up too soon!) & awful "music".

I like the ones that you press on the arrows & jump into the room.

Do they have a name?

Sometimes I think less is absolutely more. Before everything that is now possible with the internet was possible, it was all about getting a foot through the door, be that with a job interview, selling things in a shop, or selling a house. What was dished out was just enough information to get people in to see for themselves.

I really do believe that if people were to turn up at the OPs house, some would be blown away by it and would be able to see how it could work for them. However, there are so many photographs with houses these days (not to mention videos) that it's so easy to talk oneself out of anything without looking at it.

Years ago I used to work in a showroom for a very, very well known retailer, and our shop was always up against it, not least because it stood miserably to the side of a busy main road where there were practically no other shops, being sited neither in the city centre or "out-of-town". We survived on word of mouth and from advertising in leaflets throughout the local area, which had enough information to get people in through the door. Once in, they fell in love with us, and sales were OK.

But when the internet really took off, the shop closed. That was 2010, long after I'd left. In many ways it simply could not compete, not least because there was so much information online that people didn't need to come it to a store any more. It's the same now - yes, people want to know everything before shifting their arse out of the house, but it does mean they don't go and see things for themselves & see what they might be missing.

diddl · 05/07/2025 17:03

The video is (imo) dreadful.

No commentary (unless I gave up too soon!) & awful "music".

I like the ones that you press on the arrows & jump into the room.

Do they have a name?

Morebroccoli · 05/07/2025 16:58

alexalisten · 05/07/2025 15:44

Nah i haven't got the attention span to be watching videos 🙈🤣

You are not alone given zero interest in this property!

alexalisten · 05/07/2025 15:44

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 04/07/2025 23:55

Another one who didn't bother to watch the house tour video!😂

Nah i haven't got the attention span to be watching videos 🙈🤣

IjustbelieveinMe · 05/07/2025 00:30

Op I have nothing constructive to add as I live in Australia but I absolutely love your taste in furniture and colour.

queenoftheanalogy · 05/07/2025 00:08

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 04/07/2025 23:55

Another one who didn't bother to watch the house tour video!😂

It was over six minutes long...I only watched it because I was curious to see a detail which a PP had mentioned. Frankly, it made it look even less appealing.

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 04/07/2025 23:55

alexalisten · 01/07/2025 13:24

Im so confused by the photo of your kitchen like where's your fridge freezer, microwave, washing machine etc

Another one who didn't bother to watch the house tour video!😂

Thebear83 · 04/07/2025 20:55

Still languishing with bugger all interest OP?

SarfLondonLad · 04/07/2025 11:10

No period features at all and too open plan.

The sort of buyer who would look at the outside (the kerb appeal is wonderful) and be interested would, I think, want something a little less "modern", particularly at that price.

We bought something similar and managed to get a hefty discount, as while it was a Victorian three-storey semi, it had no Victorian features at all left inside.

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 04/07/2025 11:00

I like it but i can't get past the kitchen. The island in the middle is just too much. I like a kitchen with space in the middle not one I have to walk around islands just to get to a cupboard. That would put me off looking at it.

Wot23 · 04/07/2025 10:53

UpMyself · 03/07/2025 22:16

@alexalisten , @Wot23 , I was trying to be positive.

Maybe if you viewed it, you'd love it, but the price and photos won't get the viewers in.

all I can say is unless there is a crucial difference between Gonerby Hill Foot versus south east bit of Grantham as a factor in where to live in Grantham, then the price and photos mean I would never bother bother looking at it. I'd go direct to the Gonerby house and won't waste time and money viewing it at that price.

UpMyself · 03/07/2025 22:16

@alexalisten , @Wot23 , I was trying to be positive.

Maybe if you viewed it, you'd love it, but the price and photos won't get the viewers in.

alexalisten · 03/07/2025 20:29

Wot23 · 03/07/2025 19:42

@upmyself says: What's appealing about it:
Front looks nice, lots of space, rooms look light, big garden, double garage, loft or basement could be a home office, suitable for a family with older children etc.

  • Yes frontage
  • Edwardian property so always was going to have good light from high windows and ceilings
  • double garage - err have you looked at it??? Roof that will need replacing. Service road that is barely a car length wide so difficult turning space in and out (next door has theirs set back to improve the track line when driving in / out)
  • basement - agreed (Subject to evidence being provided that it has been tanked to modern standards, not Edwardian ones)

Firmly believe that its price is unachievable compared to its exact price competitor as the latter offers a more "conventional" 2 storey property with an easily accessible garage and less oblong shaped rooms

This is the biggest issue the price is insane its not just a bit over its significantly over. If I was going to spend that much on a terraced house it certainly wouldn't be in Grantham

Wot23 · 03/07/2025 19:42

@upmyself says: What's appealing about it:
Front looks nice, lots of space, rooms look light, big garden, double garage, loft or basement could be a home office, suitable for a family with older children etc.

  • Yes frontage
  • Edwardian property so always was going to have good light from high windows and ceilings
  • double garage - err have you looked at it??? Roof that will need replacing. Service road that is barely a car length wide so difficult turning space in and out (next door has theirs set back to improve the track line when driving in / out)
  • basement - agreed (Subject to evidence being provided that it has been tanked to modern standards, not Edwardian ones)

Firmly believe that its price is unachievable compared to its exact price competitor as the latter offers a more "conventional" 2 storey property with an easily accessible garage and less oblong shaped rooms

To think that it’s odd no one has come to look?
To think that it’s odd no one has come to look?
UpMyself · 03/07/2025 19:24

obviously there is not, but look at how many subsequent comments since OP left at page 16 are still aimed at the OP
OP started a thread in AIBU? asking for opinions. She got 16 pages of opinions, then flounced off.

My reasons for viewing/not viewing ultimately are location, price, suitability, and does it look worth viewing.
For me it's a no because of all four.

Nothing against the location, I don't know it but I'd always thought it sounded OK, nice countryside, good schools, easy to get to etc.

Price: nicer houses for the money. (detached etc)

Suitability: The house has lots of stairs and steep steps to the garden, so wouldn't suit a young/multi-generational family.

Does it look worth viewing: No, it's been re-done rather strangely, the photos make the rooms look long and narrow, and I'd be re-configuring the kitchen.

What's appealing about it:
Front looks nice, lots of space, rooms look light, big garden, double garage, loft or basement could be a home office, suitable for a family with older children etc.

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 03/07/2025 19:17

alexalisten · 03/07/2025 19:12

If everyone is saying the exact same things then it shoes what the problem is price, pictures and that kitchen is just odd

Oh yes I know, that was obvious after the first 100 responses!

alexalisten · 03/07/2025 19:12

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 03/07/2025 18:45

It wouldn’t be a thin skin that would make me hide the thread, it would be sheer boredom at reading the same response so many times!

If everyone is saying the exact same things then it shoes what the problem is price, pictures and that kitchen is just odd

Lavenderflower · 03/07/2025 18:57

I am assuming it the price.

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 03/07/2025 18:45

alexalisten · 03/07/2025 18:21

Don't ever post on aibu unless you have thick skin. I think if she had posted on property like she should have she would of got more balanced responses

It wouldn’t be a thin skin that would make me hide the thread, it would be sheer boredom at reading the same response so many times!

alexalisten · 03/07/2025 18:21

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 03/07/2025 18:18

🤷🏻‍♀️ so what? If it was me I’d have hidden the thread after the 115th ‘your kitchen is horrible’.

Don't ever post on aibu unless you have thick skin. I think if she had posted on property like she should have she would of got more balanced responses

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 03/07/2025 18:18

🤷🏻‍♀️ so what? If it was me I’d have hidden the thread after the 115th ‘your kitchen is horrible’.

alexalisten · 03/07/2025 18:15

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 03/07/2025 14:31

She might be, but there’s not much point her replying now, is there?

Edited

I dont expect her to reply but I strongly believe shes reading

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