Page 4 | Ridiculous 'arty' property photos

DuckBushCityLimit · 2023-02-01T16:53:36+00:00

I know this sort of thing has been done many times, but... I'm in the market for a house, not a bichon frise! https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131285420#/?channel=RES_BUY

MsFogi · 02/02/2023 16:00

mathanxiety · 02/02/2023 03:28

The dog and mural are a bit distracting.

But otherwise they've done a good job of balancing the need to convey a sense of the scale of the rooms and also give it an overall 'personality'.

The house has been styled well.

(It's a very attractive property imo.)

There's an EA in the building!!

NowThatIThink · 03/02/2023 13:07

mathanxiety · 02/02/2023 03:28

The dog and mural are a bit distracting.

But otherwise they've done a good job of balancing the need to convey a sense of the scale of the rooms and also give it an overall 'personality'.

The house has been styled well.

(It's a very attractive property imo.)

I don't disagree. And generally, Mn property threads are in favour of doing quite mad things to present your house for sale, with people recommending replacement kitchens, complete redecoration, removing all trace of the people who live in it, and buying furniture to 'stage' rooms for those constitutionally unimaginative potential buyers who can't imagine a spare bedroom as an office or vice versa.

While I've sold quite a few houses in three countries without ever doing more than a good clean and a lick of paint in tired areas, I think people are just getting cross because they think the staging of the house is too obviously lifestyle-aspirational, the house is expensive, and the photos allow them to be snide about this kind of bright-and-shiny lower-middle-class thing.

CMOTDibbler · 03/02/2023 13:15

We were playing fantasy houses last night on RightMove, and one house/smallholding had lots of photos of the horses/ duck pond/ close up of the kitchen sink/ Aga but not many of the actual bedrooms

HeavenIsAHalfpipe · 03/02/2023 13:18

What a dreadful listing. It's like someone's instagram page where they're showing off what they have, and not the house. Why is there a DOG in it? And why are one of the photos the fucking kid's mobile hanging from the ceiling?! And what's with the 'Mia' sign and the blurry window? WTAF?!!!

The house itself is very basic and bland. No amount of weird insta-type pics is going to take away the fact the house is as bland as fuck to look at. And £600.000??? Don't make me laugh. I wouldn't pay half that, not even in 'Bromley!' (ie not far from London.)

Just coz it's an hour from London, they think they can charge two thirds of a MILLION for a bog standard bland semi! 😂

viques · 03/02/2023 13:19

I would be asking why they want to move since they seem to have built the perfect insta ready life for themselves in their present house? What else do they need to validate themselves as the family who have it all?

NowThatIThink · 03/02/2023 13:27

@HeavenIsAHalfpipe and @viques, why are you so aggrieved about this? Just because you don't think that house is worth £600k doesn't mean it's necessarily an unrealistic asking price? For the purposes of comparison I just looked up the current valuation of a house I sold in 2021, in a Midlands village, so nowhere near London, or indeed anywhere prestigious, and it's listed as £575k. For a bog-standard 1970s house we did nothing to other than paint it white inside and replace the bathroom and some flooring.

Why make it about 'validation'? Aren't they just trying to sell their house for as much money as possible, like everyone?

viques · 03/02/2023 13:32

NowThatIThink · 03/02/2023 13:27

@HeavenIsAHalfpipe and @viques, why are you so aggrieved about this? Just because you don't think that house is worth £600k doesn't mean it's necessarily an unrealistic asking price? For the purposes of comparison I just looked up the current valuation of a house I sold in 2021, in a Midlands village, so nowhere near London, or indeed anywhere prestigious, and it's listed as £575k. For a bog-standard 1970s house we did nothing to other than paint it white inside and replace the bathroom and some flooring.

Why make it about 'validation'? Aren't they just trying to sell their house for as much money as possible, like everyone?

Eh?

HelloBunny · 03/02/2023 13:36

I remember looking in the window of an Estate Agents in a London suburb. A nice place to live, but not posh. Plenty of old houses / tower blocks. The apartments featured looked amazing. I wanted to live there! But... Looking at the typical house on the street, it was more likely to contain a few shabby 70s bedsits than the large chic flats in the pictures. Selling a lifestyle, indeed.