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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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manicpixieschemegirl · 01/07/2025 16:17

As others have said, it’s massively overpriced. The kitchen just being an island is slightly bizarre and I’d imagine most people would want to refurb. The scratchy grey school carpet throughout is also off-putting and again, most prospective owners would likely want to replace.

Aside from the price:

Have the floor plan redone properly.

Better photos and styling are needed. Current pics make the house seem very narrow and things like the corner with the boiler and surrounding clutter really don’t need to be included. Get rid of clutter on top of wardrobes, random hanging hoodies and the old bed that’s folded up.

Wakeywakey678 · 01/07/2025 16:17

Overpriced.

AguNwaanyi · 01/07/2025 16:13

I don't know the area so have no idea how well it is priced, but I do suggest that you put the dimensions on the floorplan. A lot of people scroll quickly so it's helpful to give that information on one image. I read the dimensions in the description and the rooms are wider than I would have guessed from just looking at the photos.

SunnySideDeepDown · 01/07/2025 16:13
  • kitchen is very strange. One long run of lower units means you have to walk a lot to get to any of your stuff. Where’s the fridge? Sorry but I hate it, it’s a bad use of space.
  • the bedrooms look like rentals. Cheap carpet and poor decoration.
  • garden looks unloved and narrow.

The front aspect of the house is lovely but I think it’s overpriced for what it is.

BIossomtoes · 01/07/2025 16:12

There is an ensuite. A massive one.

Ibelievetheworldisburningtotheground · 01/07/2025 16:09

sweetpickle2 · 01/07/2025 13:23

What have you done to the property to justify a 20%+ increase in value since 2018?

Same question, really.

plus there's only 1 full bathroom in the 4 bedroom house; I'd want an en-suite added somewhere.

Zov · 01/07/2025 16:08

MyMilchick · 01/07/2025 15:54

And no offence to the OP but that house is way nicer, much more homely and inviting

Wow, that house is stunning. I love it.

Sorry @Onwayto50 but I think your house is about £80,000 overpriced.

BIossomtoes · 01/07/2025 16:06

Ilikemymenlikeilikemycoffee · 01/07/2025 16:05

Looks lovely but I have no idea where Grantham is!

East Midlands, about 120 miles north of London just off the A1.

TwigletsAndRadishes · 01/07/2025 16:06

I'd want to change the kitchen and at that price it can't be justified. Having the whole kitchen in one huge island unit has turned what should be a decent sized kitchen into a somewhere with two huge and pointless corridors of wasted space running through it.

Ilikemymenlikeilikemycoffee · 01/07/2025 16:05

Looks lovely but I have no idea where Grantham is!

Twilight7777 · 01/07/2025 16:04

I've Just seen the previous pictures from before you moved in, I would try and replicate the way they presented the kitchen as it was very well done.

mummymeister · 01/07/2025 16:04

We have been on for 10 weeks. 2 viewings, no offers. dropped the price by 30% after 4 weeks and still nothing. we are at the higher end of the market locally and literally no one is buying. we are doing what we can to promote it but cant put the price down again. also, I am definately not renting it out not now that labour have bought in the new rental rules. they need to do something and fast. the whole market for mid to high priced houses in my area has ground to a halt.

Freyer · 01/07/2025 16:03

@Onwayto50 I love the house but the two things that put me off are the kitchen and the bathroom.

Starting with the kitchen; it does not (IMO) actually look like a kitchen at all. It looks like a waste of 2 rooms with a long white table stuck in the middle. I would have pictures or something on the walls - anything to break up the “thinness” of the room.

The main bathroom; I loathe the black features. This is purely personal and Im not sure what else you could do about it, aside from adding a load of green plants to detract from it?

Otherwise, I love everything about it!

nomas · 01/07/2025 16:02

Beautifully presented but for me the kitchen isn't very inviting. I can see the design is trying to make the most of the long and narrow space but it just feels like a room you'd want to get the cooking done with.

Also the stairs leading down to the garden would put off people with young kids or those with mobility issues.

ArcticBells · 01/07/2025 16:01

I can’t comment on price as don’t know the area but the house is lovely . The kitchen pics are a bit weird as where is the actual cooking area? The pictures just repeat the long narrow island.

47andahalf · 01/07/2025 16:00

Your photos are pretty poor, too much v obviously stretching which , combined with the lack of room measurements on the floor plan, would absolutely put me off.

Photo 9 should be photo 2. It's the best photo of your inside. The kitchen photos make it look like a v narrow corridor.

Rosesanddaffs · 01/07/2025 15:58

No help but just wanted to say I love your house and style. Lovely to see some colour xx

FancyCatSlave · 01/07/2025 15:57

Kelticgold · 01/07/2025 15:52

I know, I always look for previous prices and check the old advert’s pictures. It puts me off when there is such a price increase and nothing to show for it. But it is “the market”.

It was nicer in the before photos - I know that’s very subjective but to my eye I preferred the look before and the improvements have devalued it for me.

But some times it really is the market. In one of our moves the house sold for 1/3 more than we paid in just 3 years. We’d only painted one nursery and that was it. That was purely supply and demand.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 01/07/2025 15:56

Ho hum I love a hanging rack in the kitchen, so useful for all the things that clatter around in drawers, also for onion and garlic strings, drying herbs. I wish I could have got one into this house but the kitchen lighting wouldn’t tolerate it.

But I don’t think the presence or otherwise of a hanging rack is the crux here. Price and better phots, really. Oh and a picture of two cars parked in the garage.

GoodbyeRosie · 01/07/2025 15:56

I'm not really sure where your valuer has got your price from, it's a least £60k too much compared with other similar properties.

Front garden/ kerb appeal is great, but you needed to have seriously decluttered before the interior photo were taken. There's also too much personal stuff on show as well in my opinion, I'd take some of the pictures and artwork down.

Drop the price to the right market value and redo the photo's is my suggestion.

Arseynal · 01/07/2025 15:54

Praying4Peace · 01/07/2025 15:47

Wow, very negative and unjustifiably so

Which points are unjustified? The kitchen? The carpets? The boiler? The loft room door? The garden fence? Other people have said the same. Additionally they are all true.

Whistlingformysupper · 01/07/2025 15:54

The loft bedroom doesn't look like it would meet building regs. It only has a funny half height sloping door (surely not a fire door?) so straight up I'd question whether that can even safely be used as a bedroom.

MyMilchick · 01/07/2025 15:54

sweetpickle2 · 01/07/2025 13:26

This is nearby and very similar in layout to yours and is on for about £150k less- https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/151601861#/?channel=RES_BUY

I don't know your area at all but that alone suggests you're overpriced.

And no offence to the OP but that house is way nicer, much more homely and inviting

BIossomtoes · 01/07/2025 15:53

It’s Grantham and overpriced is the answer. There’s nothing in the town which is described as “Everything you need and nothing you want”. I know someone who lives there purely because houses are cheap.

The kitchen is dreadful, it’s all island and no storage space. Most people would factor in the cost of redoing that which would take the price to well over £400k. It simply isn’t worth the money.

Kelticgold · 01/07/2025 15:52

sweetpickle2 · 01/07/2025 13:23

What have you done to the property to justify a 20%+ increase in value since 2018?

I know, I always look for previous prices and check the old advert’s pictures. It puts me off when there is such a price increase and nothing to show for it. But it is “the market”.