To think that it’s odd no one has come to look?

[Onwayto50]

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??

• www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163365362

Sorry but the kitchen is so strange. It doesn’t feel like a kitchen at all, almost like an empty room with a massive island and a fridge. I wouldn’t buy it for that reason alone. Also find somewhere to hide the hoover and ironing board. The house has a lot of plus points and nice period features but I couldn’t get past the weird kitchen.

Haven't read the other comments. I'm confused by the kitchen. Is the centre aisle it? Where are the side benches and cupboards? Cooking appliances? It looks like there's barely a kitchen.

I know wide angle pictures are normal in these listings, but I don't think it does any favours here. Everything looks very narrow.

Unless there wasn't anything else in the area on offer and there weren't many other properties to pick from, I don't think I'd look on the basis of the kitchen photos alone.

I think you need to present it differently so it looks more homely in the photos.

I'm sure it's homely and lovely in person, it's just not coming across in the listing.

Is Grantham not on the mainline to Kings Cross??
Because I've been down to Kings Cross from there many a time!

Your home is beautiful, you’ve styled it lovely so it’s got personality but not out there.

The things that put me off is the kitchen looks narrow, the garden looks small, the living room looks cramped, the bathroom isn’t to my style and the boiler exposed in that one room.

A few different photos would change my mind about all those things and consider a viewing. It does look like it could be the sort out house you stand in and are wowed.

You need more in the kitchen to make it look less narrow and less in the living room to show off its size. In the kitchen that wall above the radiator needs something there, a few framed prints to break it up. The table in the kitchen makes it look so narrow. Could you not put the table from the living room there just for the pictures? Put it across, even if you can only fit four chairs to make the room look wider. The living room would look huge without the table there if you spread out the other furniture.

In the bathroom not my style at all but the bones are great, I love the big window above the bath. Take a close in shot of the bath, framed with the window. Then move the little cabinet in the corner and take a shot from that angle, show off the shower and the size of the room.

You need to take a picture of that pool table room from a different angle to cut out the boiler. It’s the sort of thing that’ll put me off in a picture but once I’ve seen the house I probably wouldn’t care.

You need better one of the garden, it’s beautiful but looks so small and wouldn’t have known it was 70ft.

OK, I've read the updates now (didn't want to taint my impression by reading other feedback first). I see that is the kitchen. That would be an absolute deal breaker for me before I even see anything else. I need a full kitchen, not just a little bench space.

And yes, that back fence is going to need replacing sooner rather than later.

Agree over-priced. Kitchen looks very odd. The photos are generally not good. Too many of living area & radiators dominate photos. Edit the photo selection massively & take out bad/odd ones. Did they use a fish eye lens? Bad choice in a narrow house. Bathrooms are dated. Storage looks scant. It does have kerb appeal & that’s your best photo. Back garden is a minus. That fence! If it’s yours I suggest replacing. Dress up back garden a bit, plant pots, nice furniture maybe?

These threads are hilarious, it’s always the price.

@upmyself well your thoughts are not going to register with the OP as they have gone away, so you are talking to yourself

17 pages of thread and people are now reposting links given at the start....

Yes, it’s on the mainline. It’s also highly undesirable. There’s a reason house prices there are so low, despite it being on the mainline. Presumably you’ve only passed through.

@Wot23 , as are you.

I’m interested in this because ok, Grantham may not be great, but lots of places are not great and if they are within an hour of London on a comparatively pleasant train line, that doesn’t seem to hold them back.

i just don’t get the situation with Grantham because it has good properties, good primaries and grammar schools, a commutable to London (or many other cities) location, beautiful countryside around, some nice architecture in the centre. Now surely that should be enough to attract people to the area and once there, well…a town is partly what people make it. Businesses can be opened.

Or am I missing something? I haven’t been there for many years but grew up not far away.

The kitchen would put me off as it is unusual and the long run of units gives the impression of a long galley style kitchen but with the units in the middle of the room. So I would value the house as lower to take into account redoing the kitchen with rearranging the units to be against the walls.

Can you explain why it’s so undesirable?

This. You can get a detached property with a double garage and parking for that sort of price…

Maybe you should take a trip there and see for yourself.

I have failed my driving test there twice 😆
You are right though, I will go. Would you say that the issues will be immediately obvious driving and walking about, or are some more concealed from the casual visitor? Also, do you think the same problems apply to the villages around, or are they just not lucky with their nearest town but better in themselves? Thanks 🙏

We lived in Greencroft Gardens in NW6 in London for three years in the late 90s. It was just gorgeous. We’re now further in the South East but I recently looked at properties for sale in that area.

It was quite shocking as most were full homes priced at around £3-4 million but every single garden was just tired and unloved.

All I could conclude is that these were ‘city homes’ for people who spend much more on the gardens in their second homes in hotter parts of the world.

I think it’s obvious just walking around. It’s dirty and feels neglected, it’s a bit like a small version of Peterborough. A lot of the surrounding villages are lovely but if I lived in any of them I’d never go to Grantham when Stamford - which is completely the other end of the spectrum - is so close.

Thank you, yes I agree about driving to Stamford. Where I grew up you had to drive a way to a large town anyway so I am used to that. Grantham could just be for the station.

I had to Google where Grantham is, no shade on the place but im not paying that price for a house in a small town

I'm not sure why you are countering all the points people have raised to argue them, those points are what are keeping buyers away. Fair enough if the house isn't a true reflection of what people perceive through photo's but then do something to address all those points instead of arguing the toss.. people opinions are buyers opinions and you won't change that by explaining things, first impressions count for a lot.

If your house is nice and light and spacious and airy, the photos should be able to reflect that, and they don't, and for that sort of money everything should look immaculate, and dressed to impress but the beds look scruffily made, wires are trailing in the living area, shower looks like it's just been used, boiler on display, mish mashed furniture everywhere and clutter everywhere in the attic, garden is unkempt with a hideous looking fence on one side, which looks like it needs replacing and the photos DO make the whole house look narrow.

The house is lovely but the photos and staging are not very good.

But that kitchen would be a deal breaker for me, I know it is personal choice, but it's just not practical.. that island clogs the whole room (which looks huge) and there's only space for two people to sit in that whole room comfortably! It's a bonkers concept and I would have to budget for ripping that out and installing a proper kitchen to better utilise the space, so it would be an instant no for me at that price.

Gosh, that one is lovely!!

It's not Victorian...

Is it because Margaret Thatcher was born and raised there?

The vibe, as it were of her malignant presence.