House not selling (with listing)

Ah, I see why you (and @Chocaholick) think that if you're not seeing the white garage door at all!

On my phone, two thirds of the neighbouring garage door is visible so imo it's fairly obvious it's a detached (or more pedantically, a link-detached) house. If it were a semi the other 'half' would be extremely narrow at 8'6 😆

I think @Chocaholick's right. On my phone the photo comes up cropped just to the right of the windows. No sign of the garage so it looked like a semi attached to a different house. I think loads of people in the market for this house might also be looking at semis.

For me OP the only important issue is bedroom size and there's nothing you can materially do about that so it comes down to waiting or price. Your house is lovely and ticks a lot of boxes for its size and place in the market.

I'm sorry OP if you're still reading - I know Haydon Wick, and I wouldn't want to live there, even in a house that was perfect for me in every other way.

1. rehome the animals for viewing days and do a deep clean for smell after they go (I say this as a house rabbit owner! I love them but not everyone does!)
2. the bed in the spare room. It would be better off empty than crammed in like that for the photo. I accept it’s functional for how you live.
3. the fireplace, but you can’t do much about that

Your home is beautiful! I love the blue throughout. I love your kids rooms, they look like fun places to play!

Hope not

Do we think OP is reading?

Things that would put me off:

Downstairs grey flooring and how the floor colour is different in every bedroom
Windows - not a fan of the diamond pattern - its dated
Colour of the painted fireplace
No rugs in living room
The snug - awkward wasted space to me
Backyard looks unkempt and an after thought

Sorry those are my negatives, hope it's not too harsh. I do like your kitchen a lot though and the pops of colour are good!

How does it look semi-detached?!? Of course it doesn't! Anyway, if you were only wanting a detached house, surely you'd filter out everything else, in which case this one wouldn't show up if it was a semi?

That said, I think the neighbour's white garage door should be cropped out of the lead pic as it initially led me to think it was @Housesale2's garage.

You need to seriously spruce up the front garden (zero kerb appeal) and improve the back garden.

Don't people filter searches?

I think it's a smashing house Op, plenty of very usable space for a family. I would love it but - photos should never include pet evidence and long grass!
I feel that changing some of the paintwork to an ivory would open up an already lovely house further. Good luck with your sale, it's very stressful isn't it

The grey floor. Makes the whole house feel like a hospital and I wouldn’t be willing to spend money replacing it.

The coloured walls. Again another thing that the buyer will have to change if it’s not to their taste.

The street appeal is very average. I understand that the front yard is largely dedicated to parking but you can get creative with pots and climbing plants.

It doesn’t look detached in the cover photo so anyone looking for a detached house will probably scroll past without actually looking. It looks like the house is semi detached and just the part on the left, which would be small for a 4 bed.

It's obviously a well presented house, and a decent size internally but my immediate thought is the photos aren't good at all.

External photos make it look a little unloved, the front looks like the garden needs weeding and the grass in the rear garden is crying out for a cut and the random tarpaulin in the corner of the garden looks awful.

I also agree with others comments about the double bed taking over the room. Lots of the photos are taken at angles that crop parts of the room and the study/ gym room with bare shelves and random boxes in the corner doesn't look good.

I'd have some better photos taken/ maybe try another agent if there's been little to no interest.

Blimey, OP you can filter some of these comments. It's not cluttered or chaotic or "small even for a 3 bed", and I don't think removing the rocks from the front garden or the furniture from pic 10 will make a jot of difference in securing a sale.

@CleanGreenScreen12's point about new builds nearby makes a lot of sense. New build prices are often inflated - essentially fake news - and I wonder if that might be artificially increasing the perceived going rate for a house of this size, round your way. Basically are you overpricing because the competition are too?

Its very nice/respectable.

Main photo should be better, it looks like it could be a semi detached.

Garden photo awful. It would be better taken looking towards back of house, or of a much better angle or vantage point.

Your fireplace isn’t great. It looks very hard/harsh looking. I would paint it in a lighter tone or even white to soften it up.
(My DH is a builder, and it wouldn’t bother me because he would rip it out and alter it).

Blimey some of you have way too much time on your hands 😅

@Housesale2 I'd get this thread deleted before a bored mumsnetter starts stalking you 🥸

The extension was there in the streetview photos dated 2009

For starters bedrooms 2, 3 and 4 look just about big enough to fit a bed in and not much else.

I agree. It's 112 m2 - absolutely tiny. It's small even for a three bed.

I think it’s a really lovely house! Some of these comments are a bit silly. Serious buyers really don’t care about the tidiness or even the decor. My mum told me to look up at the ceiling to get an idea of room size. All the clutter etc will be gone!

Whats the location like? Nice neighbourhood, quiet? Close to transport, amenities? These are the important things that can’t be changed.

Not RTFT but agree with most of the posters so far. So just my thoughts:
Lots of nice things:

• Kitchen is nicely done
• Bathrooms are also really nice and spacious
• Study is good
• Downstairs loo is a tick
• Main living room is a good size

Things you cannot change but would put me off:

• No hall means you walk through the living room to the kitchen. Only a couple of ppl have mentioned this but in a four-bed detached it’s a big no. I lived in one before (my first, tiny house) and you have to furnish the room oddly. And where do ppl take off their boots?
• Bedrooms are very small sorry. @OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon the reason the bed only just fits in that room is that it’s bed 3 and the 8ft9 is the max – ie into the doorway. The width of the majority of the room is about 6ft 6 I guess
• L-shaped room is a mare to furnish
• No wall cupboards in the kitchen

Things you can change:

• Spruce up the rather sad garden
• Tidy up – yes I know ppl are not buying the things but empty the washer, put away the pet cage, move the things off the kitchen shelves and worktop
• Retake the pix so they are not so madly distorted. If you compare to the 2017 listing, the kitchen pic with the table especially is WILD, it is certainly not that big; and the living room photo is stretched and looks less cosy to me

We lived in Oakhurst Swindon so nearby, are they still building loads of new builds in the area? We found it hard to compete against the new builds as they can offer so many deals.

Really? The windows could easily be replaced. It would just take a day or two. Or they could be painted for a fraction of the cost.

Plants are your friend here. Some colourful plants in nice looking pots (not stone given all that brick - maybe ceramic) and some nice borders and shrubs to the back along with some more pots. A few hundred at a decent garden centre will pay a dividend and certainly soften things up a bit.