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

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Onwayto50 · 01/07/2025 13:13

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??

Check out this 4 bedroom terraced house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom terraced house for sale in Harrowby Road, Grantham, NG31 for £390,000. Marketed by Newton Fallowell, Grantham

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/163176548?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

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queenoftheanalogy · 05/07/2025 00:08

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 04/07/2025 23:55

Another one who didn't bother to watch the house tour video!😂

It was over six minutes long...I only watched it because I was curious to see a detail which a PP had mentioned. Frankly, it made it look even less appealing.

IjustbelieveinMe · 05/07/2025 00:30

Op I have nothing constructive to add as I live in Australia but I absolutely love your taste in furniture and colour.

alexalisten · 05/07/2025 15:44

DiaryofaProvincialLady · 04/07/2025 23:55

Another one who didn't bother to watch the house tour video!😂

Nah i haven't got the attention span to be watching videos 🙈🤣

Morebroccoli · 05/07/2025 16:58

alexalisten · 05/07/2025 15:44

Nah i haven't got the attention span to be watching videos 🙈🤣

You are not alone given zero interest in this property!

diddl · 05/07/2025 17:03

The video is (imo) dreadful.

No commentary (unless I gave up too soon!) & awful "music".

I like the ones that you press on the arrows & jump into the room.

Do they have a name?

queenoftheanalogy · 05/07/2025 23:29

diddl · 05/07/2025 17:03

The video is (imo) dreadful.

No commentary (unless I gave up too soon!) & awful "music".

I like the ones that you press on the arrows & jump into the room.

Do they have a name?

Sometimes I think less is absolutely more. Before everything that is now possible with the internet was possible, it was all about getting a foot through the door, be that with a job interview, selling things in a shop, or selling a house. What was dished out was just enough information to get people in to see for themselves.

I really do believe that if people were to turn up at the OPs house, some would be blown away by it and would be able to see how it could work for them. However, there are so many photographs with houses these days (not to mention videos) that it's so easy to talk oneself out of anything without looking at it.

Years ago I used to work in a showroom for a very, very well known retailer, and our shop was always up against it, not least because it stood miserably to the side of a busy main road where there were practically no other shops, being sited neither in the city centre or "out-of-town". We survived on word of mouth and from advertising in leaflets throughout the local area, which had enough information to get people in through the door. Once in, they fell in love with us, and sales were OK.

But when the internet really took off, the shop closed. That was 2010, long after I'd left. In many ways it simply could not compete, not least because there was so much information online that people didn't need to come it to a store any more. It's the same now - yes, people want to know everything before shifting their arse out of the house, but it does mean they don't go and see things for themselves & see what they might be missing.

ThatNaughtyTabby · 06/07/2025 10:06

I’m local to the area and think it’s a lovely house - we bought ours 3 years ago around that price point and got a similar sized house albeit a different style more modern and detached. I think it’s just the market at the moment people being more cautious etc

Lavenderfarmcottage · 07/07/2025 07:55

FiendsandFairies · 02/07/2025 00:07

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.

That’s so interesting, and a great point. I’m fascinated by real estate and how people live and spend their money. You’re probably quite right, if you have a country home and travel etc then the value of a garden isn’t that high. I do wonder the English lifestyle and how you all entertain children etc - lots of soft play centres and perhaps your infrastructure is designed with plenty of places to go.

Justwaits · 09/07/2025 20:32

Still stagnating with no change in price
OP if you want your house sold, then I suggest you read some of the suggestion and take them on board

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