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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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ItsFridayIminLoveJS · 01/07/2025 13:55

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 100% nicer.

Mumble12 · 01/07/2025 13:55

I think perhaps its the photos but the kitchen looks really unappealing. I can't see myself cooking in there, it looks more like a school kitchen used for food tech, or a science lab. Not sure if I'm explaining that correctly!

hennybeans · 01/07/2025 13:54

Ultimately it’s the price. But after that, it’s the kitchen. It’s confusing as it looks like one Long Island and nothing else. I would be constantly circling around that island to do anything and no room for a dining table.

Charlotte120221 · 01/07/2025 13:54

Honestly? It's not a 4 bed - that top room has a tiny door into it - it's not a great conversion.

And the kitchen - it's just an island? Anyone moving in would want to redo that to a more standard layout

But neither of these things are reflected in your price.

NoelFaraday · 01/07/2025 13:53

Lose all the hanging stuff in the kitchen. It’s distracting.

Retake photos with the bright cushions removed from the sofas as they too are distracting. Also retake bathroom photo with the floor mats removed.

What is the kitchen thing, it looks like a mortuary slab. I envisage autopsies being performed on it!

TheInvisibleWorm · 01/07/2025 13:53

"Also get some measurements on the floorplan. Especially given the corridor nature of some of the rooms, people need to be able to reassure themselves that stuff will fit. No measurements is a bugbear of mine."
@StrawberrySquash

Yes yes yes this is what I was going to say too - put the measurements on the floorplan!

The photos make it look long and thin because it is long and thin, and the open plan nature of the house accentuates that. The photos taken only from one end or the other are frustrating, I've got no sense of the useful bits of the kitchen, just that there's a massive island.

The garden looks like no-one cares about it, and the path down the middle again accentuates the long-and-thin thing. Put a few pots of pansies out or something, make it look like it's a nice place to be.

I can't tell what the top room with the slanted ceiling is supposed to be. Is that an office with a sofa bed? Or an actual bedroom? What is the lowest height of that room - can it fit a wardrobe?

The 3-paragraph estate agent description is irritatingly long too. Immediate scroll past so I can see the accommodation dimensions. Is there off-street parking? It says there's a garage, but no mention of parking.

But yeah, the price would have stopped me even looking through the listing.

Starlight1984 · 01/07/2025 13:52

Purplebunnie · 01/07/2025 13:41

Back garden - no colour in it and it looks uncared for

As other PPs have said there is something not gelling with the kitchen

Unfortunately the bedrooms don't seem to fit in with the decoration elsewhere, they look tired

Sorry

This. It's like half the kitchen is missing?!

alexalisten · 01/07/2025 13:51

MadisonAvenue · 01/07/2025 13:50

I don’t really know Grantham and the housing market there but it does seem expensive for a terrace, it’s a really lovely house though.

We’re in quite a similar position. House on the market for 3 weeks ago, we had two viewings in the first week (and no others since or even lined up) and one ghosted the estate agent after viewing while the other wanted a bathroom on the first floor (it’s a 3 storey house which already has two bathrooms on the second floor and a toilet on the ground floor but obviously not one on the first floor).

An identical house two doors away quickly sold for more than our asking price 8 months ago so I don’t see an issue with the price, and our house is in a more favourable position. The identical house next door to us sold quickly two years ago and went to a bidding war, again higher than our asking price.

The market is strange around where I am in the Midlands though. Houses on our estate usually sell within days but there are a handful for sale at the moment and nothing is selling, reductions are starting to be made on those that have been available for a little while.

Can you do a thread with yours i love looking at people's houses

MadisonAvenue · 01/07/2025 13:50

I don’t really know Grantham and the housing market there but it does seem expensive for a terrace, it’s a really lovely house though.

We’re in quite a similar position. House on the market for 3 weeks ago, we had two viewings in the first week (and no others since or even lined up) and one ghosted the estate agent after viewing while the other wanted a bathroom on the first floor (it’s a 3 storey house which already has two bathrooms on the second floor and a toilet on the ground floor but obviously not one on the first floor).

An identical house two doors away quickly sold for more than our asking price 8 months ago so I don’t see an issue with the price, and our house is in a more favourable position. The identical house next door to us sold quickly two years ago and went to a bidding war, again higher than our asking price.

The market is strange around where I am in the Midlands though. Houses on our estate usually sell within days but there are a handful for sale at the moment and nothing is selling, reductions are starting to be made on those that have been available for a little while.

alexalisten · 01/07/2025 13:50

User2488898 · 01/07/2025 13:49

Just to say I love it when someone brings a rightmove like to MN! Talk about an honest appraisal! Lols

Me to these posts are my favourite

alexalisten · 01/07/2025 13:49

Hatty65 · 01/07/2025 13:42

It's a lovely terraced house, and it's worth about £230k.

I live in Lincolnshire and know Grantham well. HTH.

Op can't you at least come back and explain the kitchen.

User2488898 · 01/07/2025 13:49

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User2488898 · 01/07/2025 13:49

Just to say I love it when someone brings a rightmove like to MN! Talk about an honest appraisal! Lols

Hayley1256 · 01/07/2025 13:48

I wouldn't view this based on the Kitchen, where's all the counter space and what are the utensils dangling from a piece of wood. I would need to completely redo it

Shakeyshakeyshake · 01/07/2025 13:47

Reduce the price to entice buyers.

Also - get rid of the small table and 2 odd chairs at the end of the island. Move the dining room table off the carpet, get a smaller 4 seat table to their if you must have a table.

Is there room in the kitchen for the large table?

It’s a pain but you need to dress the rooms as some people don’t see past what is there.

Get of the mats on the bathroom floor

Do those small things, new photos , better garden photo and a map of the layout as it’s hard to tell from the photos and reduce price to below whatever is closest to you in size and go again…

NoelFaraday · 01/07/2025 13:47

The garden fence needs to be painted or treated and all the ivy or whatever that is growing over on the other side needs to be trimmed back as the garden looks like it could easily become overgrown if not kept on top of.

The back garden really lets the property down.

i don’t like the green colour in the open plan downstairs, it’s a bit quest looking. Paint it neutral cream so people can envisage their own colour.

Personally I don’t like old properties that have been modernised. You either buy an old property for the period features or you buy a contemplate home.

Nightmanagerfan · 01/07/2025 13:47

Huge kitchen extension that you can’t eat in? So you’d be taking plates through to the carpeted living room to eat? That would put me off, as would the weird kitchen which appears to be one Long Island?

PrincessFluffyPants · 01/07/2025 13:46

I had to read through the details to find you had a double garage. That would be a good asset to the property, but no photos? Is it attached to the property?

The back garden needs some TLC and better presentation. Also, why is it the second photo? It will put many people off immediately. Better to chose a photo of the living area or even, at a push, the kitchen.

I agree with PP, the kitchen, although I’m sure is beautiful in real life, hasn’t photographed well.

The price may be reasonable but the photos and presentation currently don’t reflect that.

alittlequinnie · 01/07/2025 13:44

I don't know anything about the area or price - but I wouldn't come and look - just based on the kitchen.

It looks like all the units are in the middle in a row - and no wall units etc? Is that really how it is?

Ihopeyouhavent · 01/07/2025 13:44

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.

Yikes - who or what is fitting in bedroom 4!! And only 1 bathroom

PutThe · 01/07/2025 13:44

It'll be the price. Always is. If you dont believe me, knock a hundred grand off and see what happens.

tumblingdowntherabbithole · 01/07/2025 13:43

It's a nice house but it's not 390k worth of nice house.

SunshineDeLaSoul · 01/07/2025 13:43

Youve overpriced it.

Hatty65 · 01/07/2025 13:42

It's a lovely terraced house, and it's worth about £230k.

I live in Lincolnshire and know Grantham well. HTH.

cheezncrackers · 01/07/2025 13:41

Okay, I'm going to blunt OP. The living/dining room looks lovely - bright, welcoming, stylish and really nice, as does the exterior. However, I don't like the layout of the kitchen and couldn't live with it, so I'd want to redo the kitchen immediately. The upstairs looks dated and scruffy and the garden is a mess. So all I see when I look at your house is how much money I'd need to spend to get it nice. And it's overpriced to start with. So, no I wouldn't be coming to look round. Sorry!

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