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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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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

WhereOnEarthIsMyPlanet · 01/07/2025 13:40

I live nearby and it’s absolutely the price. Our 4 bed detached with driveway for 3 cars and brand new kitchen and bathrooms was recently valued at £395k

Womblingmerrily · 01/07/2025 13:36

It's a narrow terraced house that has been massively overdeveloped and overextended.

It has left it with strange dimensions, a garden with very little utility and a price suggested that is far too high.

HelloGreen · 01/07/2025 13:35

Get rid of photos 4, 10&11. They make it look awkwardly long and thin.

DownDownDownDoooown · 01/07/2025 13:35

I don’t know the area or the UK property market so can’t comment on the price (but what others have said makes sense) but I will say…
those photos do you no favours.

The kitchen looks very tight as the focus is on the island from a strange angle. It doesn’t look like there’s much room between the island and counters.

Same with the room with the pool table- the eyes drawn to that boiler thing in the corner.

Garden looks very narrow and unkempt.

The kitchen is quality a big selling point for people- you have three photos of the island but nothing practical to interest people. It’s hard to determine how much cupboard space there is.

Focus of all the bedroom pics seem to the the bed, again making it look very small.

Based on the photos, it appears small and the layout is confusing.

Love your decor, though!

Wardrobefred · 01/07/2025 13:34

My GPs lived near Grantham. Unless things have changed a lot, that seems very expensive for a terraced house with no parking. It's very pretty but those things make a huge difference to the value.

If it does have parking the listing and photos need to make that much clearer.

No interest at all is always the price IME.

FilthyforFirth · 01/07/2025 13:33

alexalisten · 01/07/2025 13:31

Its not even south east its east Midlands where property isn't really expensive

Yeah that's what I mean, it isn't the south east, so no way a terrace should be costing that much!!

JustMarriedBecca · 01/07/2025 13:33

It's overpriced for Grantham. And the garden is small. Even if it's an hour from London by train.

Spanador · 01/07/2025 13:31

It's £15k more than this 4 bed detached 0.9 miles away? How does that work? https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/162116417#/?channel=RES_BUY

Your house is absolutely beautiful though, apart from the weird kitchen layout

ShesTheAlbatross · 01/07/2025 13:31

It’s always price

alexalisten · 01/07/2025 13:31

FilthyforFirth · 01/07/2025 13:29

No idea on the area but given it isn't the south east the price seems insane for a terrace. The house seems nice enough but massively overpriced.

Its not even south east its east Midlands where property isn't really expensive

StrawberrySquash · 01/07/2025 13:31

The kitchen looks awkward so could there be better photos that let you see better how it works? Someone said they couldn't see certain appliances; you need to be able to work that out as a buyer.

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.

BrendaTheBlendeer · 01/07/2025 13:30

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.

To be fair, that hasn't got the kitchen extension, and it's a three bed with a cupboard rather than a 4 bed.

Arlanymor · 01/07/2025 13:30

It's massively overpriced compared to neighbouring properties. Well-presented (despite the strip of a garden and kitchen with seemingly no appliances) but the money is mad when you can buy a five bed with parking for less than a mile away for less.

ThisWayLiesMadness · 01/07/2025 13:29

yeah I do not like it, sorry, do not know the area but that price seems high

I do not like open plan and it looks very bland and sterile and where are all the lovely period features? The back garden looks awful

FilthyforFirth · 01/07/2025 13:29

No idea on the area but given it isn't the south east the price seems insane for a terrace. The house seems nice enough but massively overpriced.

BrendaTheBlendeer · 01/07/2025 13:29

Also, having kids, it would massively put me off to have a dining area that's carpeted. It's not clear if a proper dining table would fit in the kitchen diner?

TheWisePlumDuck · 01/07/2025 13:28

That's about £150000 too high for a terraced house in that area of the country I'm afraid, no matter how lovely it looks.

MinPinSins · 01/07/2025 13:27

It's not odd that no one has come to look, it makes complete sense. It's an insane 80k more than a house the same size on the same street, and 90k more than the same size one on Dudley street just 0.09 miles away.

annzen · 01/07/2025 13:26

Is there a back gate/alleyway at the end of the garden? That's one thing I'd look for in a terrace. Otherwise it's a very nice house. I've no clue about location and comparative prices though.

Wish you well anyway and hope you get an offer.

BrendaTheBlendeer · 01/07/2025 13:26

It looks lovely, so likely to be the price.

I would make sure the dimensions of each room are on the floorplan, and also be very explicit about having full building regs etc approval for the loft conversion and basement. I found so many didn't that I was just discounting them in the end.

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.

Absentmindedsmile · 01/07/2025 13:26

It’s lovely and well presented, great kerb appeal. It went for £50,000 in 2014. 10 years later, it’s on for almost £400,000? In Grantham near Nottingham. It doesn’t make sense. The housing market was nuts and now it’s correcting. That’s probably what you’re finding. I think you’ll sell it for what you paid in 2018, £305,000 not more. So maybe that’s why no viewings?

reversegear · 01/07/2025 13:26

The estate agents haven’t done you any favours, it a good looking home, I’d get them to come and do that all again.

Switch the lights off move floor mats in bathrooms, the boys rooms looks like a lack of storage so move the stuff in the corner. But otherwise a nice looking family house.

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 01/07/2025 13:25

The lack of interest is always down to the P word.

I think the house looks lovely. How does the price compare with anything recently sold.

I also think that you're at a time of year where people are pre-occupied with other things like summer holidays and the new school year