To think naming a seaside house might encourage buyers?

[BlackCloudofGloom]

We've inherited a house near the beach. The decor is very dated, so we're going to do it up a bit to look more seasidey before we sell it. What house name would make you feel this would be a lovely place to buy? Or would you prefer to buy an unnamed house? Suggestions, please!

If it's had a name for 100 years, I'd like it. If someone made up a name for a 1970s bungalow, not so much.

I know somebody who called their Spanish villa Casa Raja (as in the first 2 letters of their first names). If you're interested in vulgar foreign words (as I am) this translates as "cunt house" in spanish.

You can't just give a house a name anyway. If it has a number now, you will always have to use the number - you can add a name, but you can't get rid of the number

The name wouldn’t make a ha’porth of difference to me. Sell as is.

What kind of person is swayed by a name?

Used to work for an Estate Agent. Names make no difference. If it's very 70''s I'd ditch carpets & curtains, paint it all white & put new doors on kitchen cupboards. And get wholesale factory price white bathroom suite. Buyers want a blank canvass. They can't see past tatty, unusual or themed decor.

i can't see it making a blind bit of difference either way.

Our house is named - I rarely remember it and it had no sway in the purchase.

You can change it via the post office as long as it's not in a row of similar houses. Ours is an addition to an estate so has name and number - we use the number

The house has actually been on the market for 5 months without an offer. The feedback we're seeing, again and again, is "it's too much work" and "we don't want to do the work". We dropped the price by £25K and got the same results. It isn't overpriced, but buyers don't seem to want to do places up these days, they all want to walk in and find it done. Well, none of us has any credit so a full-scale makeover is out of the question. At the moment it has horrible red and swirly green carpets and regency stripe curtains and a dark brown bathroom. It looks like someone's Granny died there (which is pretty much the case). We just felt by giving it a clean modern look with a palette of white, grey, blue and beige throughout and a few sea pictures on the walls here and there, we might find a buyer with enough vision to see it as a seaside home. But definitely no driftwood and bunting, it's not a beach hut! Anyway, thanks for your wonderful house name suggestions... definitely tempted by BloJob!

ManKy

You might be best just to gut it if nobody is living in it. Lift the carpets, strip the wallpaper and ditch the curtains. You don't need to replace them.

You've inherited a house

Remortgage it for £10k

Change the bathroom
Repaint
Take up the carpets
Clean the windows and mow the lawns
Change the kitchen units and make it clean and presentable

Take it off the market and put it back on plus the £10 or even £15 K

If it's not selling then it is over priced.

thirstyformore Marjon really made me laugh, I wasn't expecting that lol! Good for them

What @GreenTulips said. Make it a blank canvas but with a bathroom and kitchen someone can live with.

Yolandi 😂

I think you need to lower the asking price again and chuck out the carpets.

(Most) Buyers can see past dated decor and cosmetic problems these days (mainly due to all the renovation and makeover programmes on TV. If it's not selling after that amount of time then it's overpriced.

Also, seaside house names are a PITA.

My parents live in a lovely seaside location. The house they bought is called (it's not, but similar) Seashells. No house number - the house is a 100 years old.

The address is Seashells, Village Lane, Nice Norfolk Village.

But then a chalet park opened a bit further down Village Lane, with a property called Seashell Chalet. Same postcode.

It has caused endless embuggerance - luckily the chalet park management are reasonably on the ball so recognise dps' name when yet another amazon parcel gets dropped at their office.

Dps are not about to change the name - they rather like it & are anyway of the mindset that the house has been called that for a century, so bollocks to chalet park, Amazon AND royal mail. However, in slightly less entrenched moments they've quietly admitted that Number, Village Lane, Nice Norfolk Village would have been much less bothersome.

I wouldn't inflict a name on a house that doesn't already have one! If buyers like the romance of calling it Seagull Rest or whatever nonsense, they'd probably rather buy it then choose their own name anyway...

Ohmygodtheykilledkenny
Sadly not true that that buyers can see past decor & clutter according to BFF still an Estate Agent. She now has a list of tactful things to say to vendors whose 'interesting' decor is mentioned as negative feedback. (mirrored ceilings, red walls, red bathroom & kitchen, gold spray paint everywhere was memorable: ended up rented, wouldn't sell)

It has caused endless embuggerance ...

Never mind the house - what an absolutely perfect word

I'm pinching that!!!

@Puzzledandpissedoff - it was a favourite of Terry Pratchett, not sure if he coined the phrase, but he used it to described his Alzheimer's

Terry Pratchett had it first, I believe. It's a great word!

I'll second that. The only reason I'm lucky enough to live in a charming traditional flat in ye posh bit of Edinburgh is because when we bought it, the decor was appalling.

Menstrual red walls throughout. Red nylon carpets. Bizarre kitchen.

Two gallons of Restrained Georgian later we have a 'magnificent period home'.

That no longer resembles a period.

I second what GreenTulips said.

Some people in the holiday home market don’t want a large scale doer- upper.

The dated carpets, curtains and bathroom etc. might be making it look like a bigger job than it really is. Freshen it up.