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

The agent needs to add dimensions to the floor plan and the garden needs brightening up - furniture? pots of flowers?

The kitchen would be a huge issue for me - it’s a super modern apartment/penthouse style which is not practical for people who cook. Could you add a dresser, shelves etc on
the left wall as you go in?

That shade of green reminds me of clinical scrubs. If you really need to sell I’d neutralise the decor and introduce a more subtle colour with the table dressing and flowers

The photographer has oversaturated the colours so all you see is the pink and orange and everything else looks murky

Same in the bedrooms and the cellar.

Kerb appeal is good

Show the garage and make more of it in the listing - if you can park two modern cars in it then say so

the garden looks sad and not that practical. If you could spend £200 you could really improve it with some cheap summer bedding plants, fence paint, pressure wash the path etc

No way did it sell for £50k in 2014, then £305k 4 years later. Sometimes when people take out a second mortgage on a house, it goes onto the "sold house prices" websites. I remember taking out a second mortgage for £38k, on a house worth £350k - on the register it presented as if the house had sold for £38k! Clearly crazy!

Agree with this - I think I’d look at your house and see the cost of a new kitchen and two new bathrooms (they are very tired and dated) and wouldn’t see value at that price as it would cost £40k minimum to redo those three rooms). As many people say… it always comes down to price and given the work that needs to be done, yours is priced too high?

Fwiw it's not a criticism of the OPs style. It's just that the style, doesn't go with the house it's in if that makes sense.

It’s lovely OP ❤️

I'm sorry I couldn't get past the kitchen, it sort of feels like a garage with a work bench in the middle, I'd discount it immediately because I wouldn't want to have to put a new kitchen in straight away.

All the rooms look long and narrow and incredibly awkward to actually live in. The whole house has an 'awkward' feel about it to be honest. I felt uncomfortable viewing it and wouldn't go and see it in person to shuffe down each room and peer at the dreary garden. It's lovely from the outside and in good repair and things so not dire just not that appealing. I'm also shocked at the price but maybe that's normal for your area.

I think it’s a 3 bed - I think I’d come up against issues with the building regs for the loft bedroom and the pool table bedroom has the boiler in it. It’s a lot of reception space compared to sleeping space.

The through room is too long and thin. I’d want to put it back to 2 rooms. I was wondering what the office carpet was hiding (looks like it was chosen in the basis of cheapness for this sale) the previous photos reveal its hiding painted floorboards that either need stripping or a forth bridge level of maintenance.

The garden fence needs replacing - . That’s an expensive job and a pita to do with neighbours plants etc.

The bedrooms look cold

I just hate the kitchen. I would want to replace it.

Ditto the (nice sized) bathroom

You are selling a project house at a fully renovated price.

I do think it’s got excellent curb appeal.

A corridor with a cooker in. It's a really good example of when not to use a kitchen island. It's too long and thin you have to walk all the way around and it's just not right. It certainly does not follow the triangle rule. It looks relatively new (I know it's been inherited) so there's effectively a premium on the price for it compared to something that obviously needs redoing.

A dining room with carpet which is actually just a corridor to the lounge separately from the kitchen. It's in the wrong place. The kitchen should have been smaller, not an island and with the dining room attached to it. It would have been better if the dinning room had not been open planned into the lounge and had been kept as two separate rooms or at least kept the doorway to the lounge. Instead you are walking all the way along and back. Its really not a great layout for a family.

The last time it sold, it didn't have the carpets downstairs. The carpets downstairs have not added to the visual appeal at all. They are impractical in the dining room. Especially with kids.

You've added nearly a £100k to the asking price in 7 years. But it looked better with the previous owners decoration and furnishings. The heart of the problem is revealed in those photos - it looks like it would have appealled to a professional couple rather than a family - it explains the kitchen. It really limits who it will appeal to. But you've turned it into a family home and the effect is jarring. It doesn't quite fit with those key inherited design choices. So you end up also losing the potential professional couple buyers as well as the family home buyers.

It will cost a fortune to rectify in the way it really needs to be a family home. You are caught between these two with it currently not really appealing to any one group. I think you could redress the rooms with that in mind tbh. You aren't going to lose that kitchen, so need to go for the upper end professional couple market and hope that works or a family can see past it.

No parking in the pictures, though the blurb says there is a detached garage. Where is it? If you don't pause to read you could easily miss this point.

The bedrooms are ok. Bland but ok.

Bathroom has carpet. That's another instant 'im going to either have to do something about it, or live with it's moment.

If the price is too high, theres a few obstacles in there for you.

You need to have a serious think about your price, your target market and how you are presenting the house.

Cluttered and awkward. Colours are too full on for a viewing.

This.

Honestly, there is too much going on for me. It's a visual minefield of bright colours, textures, and clutter. Also way overpriced for Grantham.

You should remember you're not trying to sell YOUR house but someone else's ideal home and stage it accordingly for the photos.

The gardens really need a tidy, the back one especially. Look how much nicer they both were in the earlier set of pics.

I think the photographer could have advised you better too, the bathroom in particular looks weird with mats down and a wet shower screen, plus towels piled on the bath yet loads of empty shelf space.

I think the dark grey carpet is very off-putting. It screams student house and makes every room look depressing.

Your house looks nice - although the layout of the kitchen has me a bit baffled... it's just an island in the middle of a long room wiht no wall cupboards. I struggle to picture how I would manage with that.

But also I'm in agreement with others the price seems way off - I dont know the area but on right move there are plenty of semi's and detached houses for the same or even less money so I'm not sure why as a terrace your'e priced that high.

@Spanador The previous listing makes the kitchen look so much better as does the garden although what is going on on the right hand side - is it derelict on that side? The fence is rotting/barely holding and it's so massively overgrown that it presents a real issue.

I think the 2018 price was overinflated - 510% increase in 4 years???

The house looks worse now than then.

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

Same road, slightly less curb appeal, but nice kitchen/bathroom. Rubbish garden/no garage, but 80k less...

As others have said it’s probably the price more than anything else. But IMO the estate agents have done you no favours leading with a photo of the average looking back garden, followed by three of the slightly odd kitchen area, and only then showing the lovely main living/dining room area. Knock a bit off the price and rearrange the photos.

By pure coincidence I have been doing a bit of fantasy property hunting in Lincolnshire this week (DH is working in the area and I always have a little looky to see what we could get for a our money when he is in a new area). Admittedly my search wasn't specifically on Grantham, but it is covered by my search area and I have been finding large detached properties (up to 6 beds) in big plots for a top budget of 400K so it seems very expensive for a terrace that has been extended and converted.

Some thoughts-
First of all, it's a real bugbear of mine when estate agents don't put dimensions on floorpans. I know they are on the description, but I don't want to have to work out which rooms they relate to on the picture, and then do logarithmic quadratic equations to work out how much house I'm getting for my money. (dramatic exaggeration but you get the jist).
Secondly, to my mind there is something a bit blocky and bare about the kitchen walls from the angle of looking in from the garden, I wonder if they need pictures or if the room needs a whitewash to make it look bigger?
Finally, the carpets are industrial and not in a good way. The many the rooms look like council offices, sorry I know that's a bit rude but honest opinion. Although there is no point replacing, you might be able to soften the look with rugs?
Sorry- I know that's a bit harsh but these are the first things I notice and honestly, its a really lovely house and I love your style.

Why hasn't you agent used the aspect from the garden to the kitchen with the bifold doors, that was in the previous listing?

I might have to move there then! I could buy that second house with no mortgage.

@Wardrobefredthe reason the house looks a lot better the previous time it sold is because the photos show the rooms better and you aren’t distracted by bright decor and soft furnishings.

Nothing wrong with the OP’s personal taste but it doesn’t look good from a buyers perspective when looking at the photos.

Neutral looking rooms garner a better interest.

But I do think it’s the awful kitchen unit that is the big let down to the property.

The kitchen photos are really odd - looks just like a run of base units and no wall unit? Where is the fridge / freezer / cooker etc ?

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.