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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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chickenlettuceunderbacon · 01/07/2025 15:12

It's a lot of money for what it is, more so as it needs quite a bit of work doing to to, particularly aesthetically. Terrible carpets which need to be ripped out, and the open plan downstairs isn't done well. The kitchen is terrible.
Next door's front and back gardens look overgrown and uncared for which could indicate a difficult neighbour.

Tbh, I don't think you've added any value since buying. (If anything, it looked so much better before you bought/redecorated). I suspect this is why at its current price, no interest.

Sidebeforeself · 01/07/2025 15:11

As well as price:

  • Needs better photo of bathroom/loo ( photo is mainly of the window!)
  • Some rooms have been staged for the photos but others haven’t. This makes the room look cluttered and would make me think theres a problem with storage space.
  • Tidy away wires ,chargers etc. I know these dont come with the house but it adds to the feeling of clutter and distracts the eye
  • More interior photos needed from a variety of angles
  • I love your kitchen!
Pipsquiggle · 01/07/2025 15:10

Flyswats · 01/07/2025 14:57

@Pipsquiggle Inside that house is lovely but that concrete back garden is horrendous. I am thinking of the cost of pulling up paving.

@Flyswats
Pulling up paving and laying turf is way cheaper than installing a new kitchen - with the replumbing and rewiring required in OP's house

diddl · 01/07/2025 15:10

For me, just about every thing I love about those houses has gone.

Separate sitting room & dining room gone, bland modern kitchen with bi fold(?) doors added.

It's a busy road, cars parked making a wide road narrow, access to garage not brilliant.

GasPanic · 01/07/2025 15:08

Handy for the crem and chip shop but looks quite overpriced to me.

levampire · 01/07/2025 15:06

The photos are very hard to look at. Every room looks weirder than necessary as a result. Some rooms also look very messy. The bathroom, eg.

That long thin desolate back yard is not a garden. Surely you could stick a few colourful potplants out there.

That and the weird long mortuary slab kitchen is very offputting. You need to drop the price but first get new photos done.

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 01/07/2025 15:03

Flyswats · 01/07/2025 14:53

I don't like the carpets they seem industrial / corporate and suck any kind of sense of comfort out of every single room.

The kitchen is a design disaster

The back garden looks completely neglected and just a place you'll pass through when you take out the bins.

I agree on the carpets. They look like school carpets. They look like they’d feel wiry.

Hellohelga · 01/07/2025 15:01

When you bought it in 2018 it had wooden floors, a striped stair runner, a tiled kitchen, classic light neutral colours. These are what buyers of period properties look for. You’ve removed these and added care home carpets, laminate kitchen floor and gaudy colours. Plus you’ve hiked the price by 28%. If I bought that house in 2018 the only thing I would have changed is the kitchen, which looks like a school science lab. For me the price would need to accommodate a new kitchen, a full repaint and new flooring throughout all the downstairs of the house.

heroinechic · 01/07/2025 14:59

I’ve not read all the comments so this may have already been mentioned but I cannot see a total floor space figure.

The floorplan doesn’t include the room sizes (I know these are listed in the description but it’s an inconvenience to have to skip back and forth on the app).

As a buyer, I emailed a local estate agent to ask for the total floor space of a property they were listing. They didn’t call me back until 3 weeks later by which time the seller had taken it off the market. I honestly couldn’t believe that an agent was calling me 3 weeks late to discuss an enquiry relating to a house that was no longer on the market. Totally incompetent.

Verv · 01/07/2025 14:57

Kitchen is strange, middle floor looks tired.
Plus, houses in same are for less without the above issues.

TheNinthLock · 01/07/2025 14:57

Wardrobefred · 01/07/2025 14:07

It looks much nicer last time it was sold TBH. I don't know if if that's the quality of the pictures or the "improvements" but, especially the garden, looks much better before.

It's still the price though.

I agree. It looked nicer last time.
And yes, it is the price.
But I also think toning down all the crazy colours, getting rid of the industrial looking carpets in the living room will help get people through the door. Especially in conjunction with a price reduction.

Flyswats · 01/07/2025 14:57

@Pipsquiggle Inside that house is lovely but that concrete back garden is horrendous. I am thinking of the cost of pulling up paving.

CustardySergeant · 01/07/2025 14:56

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

The fridge freezer is at the end of the kitchen, at the opposite end to the doors into the garden.

Pipsquiggle · 01/07/2025 14:53

It's the price and also the kitchen.

You may love your kitchen layout but a lot of people will be looking at it thinking it's really badly planned and a poor use of space, limited storage and weird sight lines.

Most people will be factoring in the cost of a new kitchen on an already toppy asking price.

Compared to this house, cheaper, no weird layout of expensive to alter rooms and an extra bedroom.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159489149#/?channel=RES_BUY

Check out this 5 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove

5 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in Harrowby Road, Grantham, NG31 for £310,000. Marketed by Newton Fallowell, Grantham

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159489149#/?channel=RES_BUY

Flyswats · 01/07/2025 14:53

I don't like the carpets they seem industrial / corporate and suck any kind of sense of comfort out of every single room.

The kitchen is a design disaster

The back garden looks completely neglected and just a place you'll pass through when you take out the bins.

Balloonhearts · 01/07/2025 14:52

It's a terraced house so you've always got the potential for shitty neighbours, the garden looks nonexistent and it's just too expensive for the area. It's a beautiful house but no real usable outside space + terraced = not worth that price.

ssd · 01/07/2025 14:49

Your house is gorgeous @Onwayto50

Devonshiregal · 01/07/2025 14:48

LeavesTrees · 01/07/2025 14:16

Looking at these photos it shows that since then the neighbouring properties have let their bushes etc grow quite wildly - they hugely put me off in OPs photos - this would also worry me because it would leave me feeling that a lot of time would be spent stopping the neighbouring greenery/bushes/trees from encroaching on my property.

Also the football thing under the bed and the anfield sign just conjures images of difficult neighbours out in their garden drinking beer and watching football each summer. It’s clearly a kid’s bedroom hence the football news and house looks to be in a quiet residential area but it psychologically makes you hear football chants. Or maybe that’s just me…but coupled with the garden picture it would put off some people.

the floors and walls - can’t remember which image but feel like they were green?- look dull. Like something doesn’t look right about it. A grey, dragged down feeling. The bathroom rug looks like it’s hiding something too. It’s not uplifting. And as it doesn’t appear to need much work, you’re not looking at developers, so you want people to be able to imagine themselves in there but right now your own style is too obvious and there’s too much evidence of people living there. People want to buy hotel - you know other people have slept in the bed before you but you can’t really see the evidence of it.

The colourful accents are ott - many people just don’t have the visual ability to imagine their own stuff in there hence why the go to is white/magnolia and space. Nothing out of the ordinary bar a few nice pieces and flowers.

there’s also no flow through the house in the photo order. The estate agents have done you dirty on these if they did them and didn’t advise better. I’d get a new agent asap.

JayJayj · 01/07/2025 14:48

The house looks fine, possibly needs a new bathroom.

I have just looked on Zoopla though and for that price you can get a detached house with a large garden in the same postcode range. I understand location in that will differ but I personally would want the larger house.

tipsyraven · 01/07/2025 14:47

TheNinthLock · 01/07/2025 14:04

I think it looks better on this original listing.
Whilst I am not a fan of the white and black monochrome look, it seems friendlier.
The multiple mismatched colours in the living room and the green on the kitchen wall have not helped the house.
Perhaps the key is to tone down all the colours and let the original bones of the house do the talking.

Strongly agree.

MiddleAgedDread · 01/07/2025 14:46

It's a nice enough house but the kitchen is weird and the photos of the downstairs living room make it look huge from one angle and tiny from another. There's too much clutter in the photos for me - the printer under the console table could be on the empty desk and set that up as a proper home working space, the hanging rail in the bedroom just emphasises that there's no space for a wardrobe. Same with the towels on the side of the bath when you've an empty dresser next to it, that's just weird and detracts from the fact it's a really big bathroom with a separate bath and shower! The garden looks a mess and like the fence might blow down in the next storm. Has the loft conversion got proper planning permission and building regs etc to be used as a 4th bedroom?
It seems like a lot of house for the money to me but compared to what else is on in the area it does seem over priced
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5 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in Harrowby Road, Grantham, NG31
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TheInvisibleWorm · 01/07/2025 14:46

NomNomNominativeDeterminism · 01/07/2025 14:31

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LightDrizzle · 01/07/2025 14:43

Your curb appeal and front garden is lovely. You’ve definitely made the most of it there.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 01/07/2025 14:42

The house looks very narrow. It's all been shot on a wide lens to make it look wider - but it's just made the space look more awkward.
The shelves in the kitchen look odd.
The garden is a mess.

NotTheMrMenAgain · 01/07/2025 14:42

Regardless of whether it’s overpriced - which many posters believe it is - for me, the interior just lets it down hugely. From the outside it looks like a lovely period property, but the photos of the interior show no original features or character. It looks as though it has been unsympathetically overdeveloped. There’s not really anything you can about that, though.