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??

I don’t really know Grantham and the housing market there but it does seem expensive for a terrace, it’s a really lovely house though.

We’re in quite a similar position. House on the market for 3 weeks ago, we had two viewings in the first week (and no others since or even lined up) and one ghosted the estate agent after viewing while the other wanted a bathroom on the first floor (it’s a 3 storey house which already has two bathrooms on the second floor and a toilet on the ground floor but obviously not one on the first floor).

An identical house two doors away quickly sold for more than our asking price 8 months ago so I don’t see an issue with the price, and our house is in a more favourable position. The identical house next door to us sold quickly two years ago and went to a bidding war, again higher than our asking price.

The market is strange around where I am in the Midlands though. Houses on our estate usually sell within days but there are a handful for sale at the moment and nothing is selling, reductions are starting to be made on those that have been available for a little while.

Can you do a thread with yours i love looking at people's houses

This. It's like half the kitchen is missing?!

"Also get some measurements on the floorplan. Especially given the corridor nature of some of the rooms, people need to be able to reassure themselves that stuff will fit. No measurements is a bugbear of mine."
@StrawberrySquash

Yes yes yes this is what I was going to say too - put the measurements on the floorplan!

The photos make it look long and thin because it is long and thin, and the open plan nature of the house accentuates that. The photos taken only from one end or the other are frustrating, I've got no sense of the useful bits of the kitchen, just that there's a massive island.

The garden looks like no-one cares about it, and the path down the middle again accentuates the long-and-thin thing. Put a few pots of pansies out or something, make it look like it's a nice place to be.

I can't tell what the top room with the slanted ceiling is supposed to be. Is that an office with a sofa bed? Or an actual bedroom? What is the lowest height of that room - can it fit a wardrobe?

The 3-paragraph estate agent description is irritatingly long too. Immediate scroll past so I can see the accommodation dimensions. Is there off-street parking? It says there's a garage, but no mention of parking.

But yeah, the price would have stopped me even looking through the listing.

Lose all the hanging stuff in the kitchen. It’s distracting.

Retake photos with the bright cushions removed from the sofas as they too are distracting. Also retake bathroom photo with the floor mats removed.

What is the kitchen thing, it looks like a mortuary slab. I envisage autopsies being performed on it!

Honestly? It's not a 4 bed - that top room has a tiny door into it - it's not a great conversion.

And the kitchen - it's just an island? Anyone moving in would want to redo that to a more standard layout

But neither of these things are reflected in your price.

Ultimately it’s the price. But after that, it’s the kitchen. It’s confusing as it looks like one Long Island and nothing else. I would be constantly circling around that island to do anything and no room for a dining table.

I think perhaps its the photos but the kitchen looks really unappealing. I can't see myself cooking in there, it looks more like a school kitchen used for food tech, or a science lab. Not sure if I'm explaining that correctly!

And 100% nicer.

Its lovely and presented well but priced too high. You're on at the same price as 4 bed detached houses with garages and driveways.
No parking at all and being terraced really does make it much less desirable than those houses to families.

I have no idea about house values in the area, but I wouldn’t look because of the kitchen, it looks like it’s just an island with no units? I couldn’t live with that even on a short term basis whilst waiting for a new one to be fitted.

It's been overdeveloped seemingly without any thought as to how the space will be used. The kitchen seems wildly impractical

Like PP I'd rework the kitchen a bit and lower the price. How do you yourself use that kitchen? Is there everything you need?

Re: the kitchen. Who came up with that layout? I've never seen anything like it and I've been watching property programmes for about 20 years now. If you Google 'layouts for long, narrow kitchens' and hit 'Images' there is literally nothing like yours OP in all the photos I browsed through. And there is a reason for that - people want what's in those photos, not what you have.

I ordinarily adore Victorian terraced houses, but this one misses the mark.
Shame, as the first picture (of the front of the house) is lovely and I was instantly attracted to your house.
The kitchen is an odd long strip.
The downstairs is open-plan and to me gives 'we are trying to be fun but this is an office' vibes.
Where is the period charm? It does not feel snug and homely.
So that, plus the price, would mean I would not come and look.

It's the price mostly - it seems expensive for where it is and by the surrounding prices but also:
No picture of one bathroom - looks like there's only one bathroom (pick up the bath mats!) and a downstairs loo
Not clear which the master bedroom is
Garden looks like a strip of land - no care given. Is it a garage at the end of it?
And sorry if you put it in but the kitchen is awful, it's really not maximised the space or storage. I keep looking at and I'm just not understanding. Maybe it's better in real life.

I think your house is beautiful. The things that would put me off viewing if there was a lot of competition would be firstly the possibility the loft bedroom wasn't done to building regs. I've had this so many times when viewing simular '4 bedroom' terraced houses, which turned out to be officially 3. If its a proper conversion, it might be worth saying so. Secondly, it's hard to understand how the outside space works. Is the garden seperate from the house with garage and shared access in between? If not, make this clear, as those arrangements are off putting and I'd not view a house where that was unclear if I had lots of choice.

Lovely house, but:

• layout is personal taste (very long narrow, 'cold' kitchen);
• it advertises double garage, but no photograph - the map shows it may be at the back of the property, approached by unappealing access shared with many other homes;
• this is Grantham, north of 'Watford Gap', so nearly 400k for a Victorian terraced home is a worthy cheeky ask, but unlikely to grab the attention of locals: you may get somebody used more to London-centric prices moving to the area. Personally, I would not be wanting to pay much more than 250k in that area. A property is only worth what somebody is prepared to pay, and how long you are prepared to wait.

The photos on the previous listing show that OP wasn't responsible for the kitchen as it already had the strange layout😆

www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/d9109c7e-1a0b-4bc1-8f38-14fddaacd2be

This one is comparable to yours and close by and is only £300k
4 bedroom character property for sale in Dudley Road, Grantham, NG31

Sorry the kitchen would put me off, traditional house would need to have a traditional design for me. Also garden looks like both fences are falling in and with nothing in it it’s not very appealing.

As a buyer I’d want to know there was proper building regs/permissions for the top floor bedroom.

Such a mumsnet thing to say 😂 but I agree, the kitchen looks like a operating theatre to me.

I live not far from Grantham, it's very much the price.

That Estate agent is also good, but known for over valuing.

They also told me around 3-4 months ago anything with anything with 3 or over at the front of the price is slow to move at the moment. The fact you've had no enquiries shows it's not just a slow market thing, just a high price.

Pop dimensions on the floor plan, show the garage (and parking?) and drop by 50k and you'll find you get more interest.

I don't think the photos or videos are showing it very well at all. I would definitely have to redo that kitchen as it hasn't got a family kitchen vibe it's not welcoming to me, it looks clinical, so that would put me off spending all that money and still having to do a costly kitchen refit

It's overpriced unfortunately, a cursory look at comparable sold prices on the same street shows an average of £345k in the last year. The house does look well presented, but I agree with what others have said that the photos do look a little narrow.