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??

Lincolnshire is incredibly cheap for property which is why im so shocked at the price of op

Nothing wrong with the photos, it’s just overpriced for a terrace in Grantham.

Your floor plan is awful really really substandard.

It tells you nothing at all.

Insist its redone properly

I actually think it looks better now! I like the green kitchen etc - I love a bit of colour.

It's so much more expensive than anything similar on the market. Unless it has some special features that haven't been advertised, then it's massively overpriced. Lovely house though

Agreed! The colour/decor etc isn't the reason it's not getting viewings. The photos and staging could be better, but it is the price.

Shouldn't you market it as 5 bedrooms as the basement room can serve as a bedroom too?

Lincolnshire is much cheaper than the SW. Hence us moving here from Bristol 12 years ago!

Oh god, you’re right. These pictures are a million times better. Kitchen looks lovely in these.

Looking at these photos it shows that since then the neighbouring properties have let their bushes etc grow quite wildly - they hugely put me off in OPs photos - this would also worry me because it would leave me feeling that a lot of time would be spent stopping the neighbouring greenery/bushes/trees from encroaching on my property.

The kitchen photos are really odd - looks just like a run of base units and no wall unit? Where is the fridge / freezer / cooker etc ?

@Wardrobefredthe reason the house looks a lot better the previous time it sold is because the photos show the rooms better and you aren’t distracted by bright decor and soft furnishings.

Nothing wrong with the OP’s personal taste but it doesn’t look good from a buyers perspective when looking at the photos.

Neutral looking rooms garner a better interest.

But I do think it’s the awful kitchen unit that is the big let down to the property.

I might have to move there then! I could buy that second house with no mortgage.

Why hasn't you agent used the aspect from the garden to the kitchen with the bifold doors, that was in the previous listing?

Some thoughts-
First of all, it's a real bugbear of mine when estate agents don't put dimensions on floorpans. I know they are on the description, but I don't want to have to work out which rooms they relate to on the picture, and then do logarithmic quadratic equations to work out how much house I'm getting for my money. (dramatic exaggeration but you get the jist).
Secondly, to my mind there is something a bit blocky and bare about the kitchen walls from the angle of looking in from the garden, I wonder if they need pictures or if the room needs a whitewash to make it look bigger?
Finally, the carpets are industrial and not in a good way. The many the rooms look like council offices, sorry I know that's a bit rude but honest opinion. Although there is no point replacing, you might be able to soften the look with rugs?
Sorry- I know that's a bit harsh but these are the first things I notice and honestly, its a really lovely house and I love your style.

By pure coincidence I have been doing a bit of fantasy property hunting in Lincolnshire this week (DH is working in the area and I always have a little looky to see what we could get for a our money when he is in a new area). Admittedly my search wasn't specifically on Grantham, but it is covered by my search area and I have been finding large detached properties (up to 6 beds) in big plots for a top budget of 400K so it seems very expensive for a terrace that has been extended and converted.

As others have said it’s probably the price more than anything else. But IMO the estate agents have done you no favours leading with a photo of the average looking back garden, followed by three of the slightly odd kitchen area, and only then showing the lovely main living/dining room area. Knock a bit off the price and rearrange the photos.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159489149#/?channel=RES_BUY

Same road, slightly less curb appeal, but nice kitchen/bathroom. Rubbish garden/no garage, but 80k less...

@Spanador The previous listing makes the kitchen look so much better as does the garden although what is going on on the right hand side - is it derelict on that side? The fence is rotting/barely holding and it's so massively overgrown that it presents a real issue.

I think the 2018 price was overinflated - 510% increase in 4 years???

The house looks worse now than then.

Your house looks nice - although the layout of the kitchen has me a bit baffled... it's just an island in the middle of a long room wiht no wall cupboards. I struggle to picture how I would manage with that.

But also I'm in agreement with others the price seems way off - I dont know the area but on right move there are plenty of semi's and detached houses for the same or even less money so I'm not sure why as a terrace your'e priced that high.

I think the dark grey carpet is very off-putting. It screams student house and makes every room look depressing.

The gardens really need a tidy, the back one especially. Look how much nicer they both were in the earlier set of pics.

I think the photographer could have advised you better too, the bathroom in particular looks weird with mats down and a wet shower screen, plus towels piled on the bath yet loads of empty shelf space.

This.

Honestly, there is too much going on for me. It's a visual minefield of bright colours, textures, and clutter. Also way overpriced for Grantham.

You should remember you're not trying to sell YOUR house but someone else's ideal home and stage it accordingly for the photos.

Cluttered and awkward. Colours are too full on for a viewing.

A corridor with a cooker in. It's a really good example of when not to use a kitchen island. It's too long and thin you have to walk all the way around and it's just not right. It certainly does not follow the triangle rule. It looks relatively new (I know it's been inherited) so there's effectively a premium on the price for it compared to something that obviously needs redoing.

A dining room with carpet which is actually just a corridor to the lounge separately from the kitchen. It's in the wrong place. The kitchen should have been smaller, not an island and with the dining room attached to it. It would have been better if the dinning room had not been open planned into the lounge and had been kept as two separate rooms or at least kept the doorway to the lounge. Instead you are walking all the way along and back. Its really not a great layout for a family.

The last time it sold, it didn't have the carpets downstairs. The carpets downstairs have not added to the visual appeal at all. They are impractical in the dining room. Especially with kids.

You've added nearly a £100k to the asking price in 7 years. But it looked better with the previous owners decoration and furnishings. The heart of the problem is revealed in those photos - it looks like it would have appealled to a professional couple rather than a family - it explains the kitchen. It really limits who it will appeal to. But you've turned it into a family home and the effect is jarring. It doesn't quite fit with those key inherited design choices. So you end up also losing the potential professional couple buyers as well as the family home buyers.

It will cost a fortune to rectify in the way it really needs to be a family home. You are caught between these two with it currently not really appealing to any one group. I think you could redress the rooms with that in mind tbh. You aren't going to lose that kitchen, so need to go for the upper end professional couple market and hope that works or a family can see past it.

No parking in the pictures, though the blurb says there is a detached garage. Where is it? If you don't pause to read you could easily miss this point.

The bedrooms are ok. Bland but ok.

Bathroom has carpet. That's another instant 'im going to either have to do something about it, or live with it's moment.

If the price is too high, theres a few obstacles in there for you.

You need to have a serious think about your price, your target market and how you are presenting the house.