Feedback for house sale wanted

[Lisa381]

Our home has been on the market for over 6 months and we have had little interest, less than 5 viewings. It is priced right for our area. I don’t like the photos on Rightmove. I’m not very good at styling the house. What do you think? What do you like to see when viewing? What puts you off? Helpful advice wanted. Be kind. ☺️

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/149995493

I don’t have any advice sorry, it seems like a lovely house and garden. Is the market generally slow in your area?

Thank you. It’s hard to tell. Some houses have been up longer than ours but others have come in and sold so it’s difficult to say.

It looks mostly tidy and look inviting. Why did they take the photos with the lights off?

• The bit of wood at the front of the house looks like it needs attention
• Remove toys and boxes from the kids room for photos
• what is going on with that study? It looks like it’s just full of bags for life. Get it tidied and move the desk and computer from the living room and put it in the study.

I'm not an expert by any means

I think that, while nice, your living room looks small

It's the way you've set it up with the sofa in the corner and the desk taking up a lot of space, on photo 5

I'd try to get a better photo of the living room, showing its true size. I'd remove the home working stuff, move the sofa area into the middle of the room, with a bigger rug. Show the living room for what it could be

Not being horrible at all, op, as your home looks nice! That's what I'd change if possible though xx

-First photo is of the front and being honest, the plaster work looks dirty and the wooden panels at the top look old and in need of varnish/painting.
-Remove your wedding and other personal photos. You want people to feel that THEY could live in the house and having personal pics 'might' prevent some people feeling that
-The drawer set in the bathroom also looks filthy, but I assume that is just the pattern/paintwork?
-Maybe people looking a 3 beds expect a larger garden?

Its clean and neat, but could do with some decluttering, especially with ALL the toys in the kids rooms. I like that pizza oven! 😋

Good points about the lights.
we have since sorted the office (new photos needed)
good advice for the living room
thank you ☺️

Great feedback- thank you

Never thought of the wood outside - thanks. They took the outside pic on a dark day it makes the colour look odd.
really do need to take the pictures down - there is A LOT!
yes the bathroom drawers it’s the style and didn’t even think how it looked to outsiders.
thanks for the feedback

To add, the garage wood also looks a bit old, not just on the house.

I think the floorplan looks bigger than the photos.

Agree about the living room. You don't need any evidence of a study in there, otherwise it suggests that your designated study is not big enough. Just lose the big office chair if nothing else.

Also, I do agree, kerb appeal and first impressions count, and the outside could do with a bit of tlc. It looks a bit grubby and the front top windows are open. You know what that suggests to me? Interior damp or mould. I'm sure there isn't, but the combination of dirty exterior and open windows just gives a question mark.

Also (!) the interior photos seem to have been taken from ground level* which gives a kind of 'squished' feel. I don't think the agent has done you any favours there.

*edited to add - as if someone has laid/crouched down on the floor to take them!

For me living room and kitchen are key.
The kitchen looks nice and big and modern table looks a bit random somehow maybe take it out or style it up.
The desk in the living room is off putting as others say make it a nice big cozy living room.
Could you afford to paint the outside?
The photo's aren't great it looks like a nice decent size house but they don't seem to sell it very well.

The photos make the rooms look less inviting rather than more so I'd redo them. As someone else has said. I'd also take the desk out of the living room and re-stage it and would also sort out the room with the bags in it. If that and a few other touches don't work - it's the price, sorry.

The photos aren’t great. They cut off a lot of space in the rooms, especially that one that’s mostly of the mirrored wardrobe. It’s just like two big pieces of furniture and you can kind of see a sliver of the room between them. But I don’t think they are so bad as to put people off viewing. It isn’t my sort of house, but I can see it’s a nice house and I wouldn’t be put off viewing by some awkward angles in photos.

The storage unit and recycling in the drive in the first photo does a little bit scream, there are storage issues! It needs to go away in the garage.

Otherwise, it’s a nice looking house and the layout is good. Do you know what the others have sold for?

What's are the comps like? It's nearly always price.

The photos all seem like they’ve been taken at child’s eye level?! They need retaking at a normal height and the lights need to be on as the house looks dark.
The first photo I’d take more from the front so you don’t see the stuff on the drive (and also it looks like there might be some staining on the outside wall which would make me worry about damp issues).
I’d maybe move the kitchen sofa for the photos and move the table over as it looks like it’s taking up too much kitchen space.
Remove the desk from the living room.
Pictures 6,7 and 10 are unnecessary.
Take the boxes out of the bedroom for photo 12.
Declutter for photo 14.
Remove the washing line and slide for the garden photos.

I don’t see any major issues with pics, looks fine.
you just need someone who wants ur area to come along
if you were thinking of re doing pictures I would maybe take things away to reduce clutter. It looks fine honestly but take down the notice board in kitchen. Remove mats from floor. Maybe add some plants but keep everything minimal

I think the rooms in the house are confused, as in you couldn’t decide if it’s a living room or study with the desk in the living room.

The kitchen is confused too, is it a dining room, kitchen or snug with the sofa in there too?

I’d get rid of the office desk from the living room, get rid of the sofa in the kitchen and move the table to the wall where the sofa was and tidy up the study like someone else mentioned.

Other than that your house looks lovely.

Photo 3 isn't needed, it put me off that the 1st 3 interior photos were similar ones of the kitchen, also don't need 3 of the bathroom, last one is not helpful. Childs bedroom, a lot is taken up by the wood of the bed so not helpful. I think better photos would tempt me more to view, if I was shortlisting from a long list.

For starters the photos all look like they've been taken from the angle of someone crouching on the floor. They're awful. You get no sense of the size of the rooms - they cut off a lot of space and they particularly make the bedrooms look very poky. They all need redoing. Wait until a sunny day and get them all retaken by someone who actually knows what they're doing.

The outside looks grubby. Pressure wash the outside of the house if you can, or give it a coat of paint.

The garden looks unloved and I can't visualise how you'd use it. The angle of the photo, looking out from the house, emphasises how overlooked you are, which would put me right off. Take a photo from the end of the garden looking back at the house, get rid of the slide and washing line, which take up most of the lawn and make the garden look tiny, and style it like a little oasis - seating area, lounge chairs, fairy lights, etc - help people imagine it as being a place they'd like to sit and relax.

The kitchen is fine and a great size, but the table looks marooned in the middle and the sofa makes me confused about the room's purpose - if I were just quickly flicking through, I might think that it was the lounge too and you had no separate lounge. Get rid of the sofa and move the table to that side of the kitchen so there's more clarity about the purpose of the space, and also so that the space looks bigger.

Get rid of the office desk and chair in the lounge - you've already got a whole room as an office - the lounge needs to be a lounge and the full space seen as living space, not working space. It's a lovely lounge and you want to show it off.

Sort out the office. It looks like a dumping ground. Same with the children's bedrooms. Boxes and storage stuff everywhere which just makes the rooms look small and a bit sad. You need to stage those rooms a bit.

Your bedroom is lovely.

A bit of sprucing and some better photos and I think you'll be in a much better position.

I agree with others - the clutter and dark photos at bad angles are doing you no favours.

One other observation - the floor plan and the actual kitchen don't match as far as I can tell? The floor plan has the sink and cooker both in a different place.

This ^^

These are my thoughts exactly. Kitchen needs the sofa removing and the table moving over to the wall. Take desk and chair out of the lounge.

Other than that, clear some of the clutter and toys (just for the sake of the photos, everything can go back afterwards) and get the photos retaken with the lights on to make it seem brighter. Should improve the listing and hopefully tempt more people through the door.

Its a nice house. As long as its priced correctly it doesn't have to be perfect and in perfect condition.

Good Luck! Our house has also been on for 6 months with 6 viewings and no offers. The market where we live is massively slow though and has been for a good while. Everything has been selling eventually, mostly after multiple reductions so I think it may be time for us to reduce too.

I think you need to declutter more for the photos: so, in the kitchen, have a photo without the corkboard with certificates on the wall, take the curtains down, lose the oil cloth on the table, hide the mat by the door and the pet food bowls. What’s behind the door in the kitchen? Things stuffed behind doors = storage issues!

Take the desk etc out of the sitting room altogether and pull the furniture out – it all looks cramped and shoved in to accommodate the desk. In the bathroom, I’d take the drawers and basket out (it says “this bathroom doesn’t have enough storage”), what’s the red thing next to the loo? Kids’ rooms, move the piles of big toys out the way for the photos; the bag for life room – I’d leave that photo out altogether!

It’s tidy for a viewing but for photos you need to strip quite bare, I think, to make the photos look smart and not distract the eye.

Move estate agencies and get someone who can take better photos. It’s a lovely house and I suspect the photos aren’t doing it justice.
I also agree about the office chair in the living room, move that for the photos.

1. You need better photos - the ones you have make the house look dark/gloomy, some of them are out of focus or taken from weirdly low down. Did the photographer crouch to take them? They should be taken from normal human height.
2. The exterior of the house could do with a fresh coat of paint. ATM it looks grubby, whereas the inside looks nice and modern.
3. Your bedroom looks nice and tidy, but the DC's bedrooms and the office look cluttered with piles of stuff and bags everywhere. I would move the clutter out while you're taking the photos. People want to see the size of the rooms and imagine their furniture in them, they don't want to see all your stuff!

Retake photos from a higher vantage point, most use a fish eye lens to make rooms look bigger, turn on lights and clear away any toys, shoes, bags etc.