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’ve not read all the comments so this may have already been mentioned but I cannot see a total floor space figure.

The floorplan doesn’t include the room sizes (I know these are listed in the description but it’s an inconvenience to have to skip back and forth on the app).

As a buyer, I emailed a local estate agent to ask for the total floor space of a property they were listing. They didn’t call me back until 3 weeks later by which time the seller had taken it off the market. I honestly couldn’t believe that an agent was calling me 3 weeks late to discuss an enquiry relating to a house that was no longer on the market. Totally incompetent.

When you bought it in 2018 it had wooden floors, a striped stair runner, a tiled kitchen, classic light neutral colours. These are what buyers of period properties look for. You’ve removed these and added care home carpets, laminate kitchen floor and gaudy colours. Plus you’ve hiked the price by 28%. If I bought that house in 2018 the only thing I would have changed is the kitchen, which looks like a school science lab. For me the price would need to accommodate a new kitchen, a full repaint and new flooring throughout all the downstairs of the house.

I agree on the carpets. They look like school carpets. They look like they’d feel wiry.

The photos are very hard to look at. Every room looks weirder than necessary as a result. Some rooms also look very messy. The bathroom, eg.

That long thin desolate back yard is not a garden. Surely you could stick a few colourful potplants out there.

That and the weird long mortuary slab kitchen is very offputting. You need to drop the price but first get new photos done.

Handy for the crem and chip shop but looks quite overpriced to me.

For me, just about every thing I love about those houses has gone.

Separate sitting room & dining room gone, bland modern kitchen with bi fold(?) doors added.

It's a busy road, cars parked making a wide road narrow, access to garage not brilliant.

@Flyswats
Pulling up paving and laying turf is way cheaper than installing a new kitchen - with the replumbing and rewiring required in OP's house

As well as price:

• Needs better photo of bathroom/loo ( photo is mainly of the window!)
• Some rooms have been staged for the photos but others haven’t. This makes the room look cluttered and would make me think theres a problem with storage space.
• Tidy away wires ,chargers etc. I know these dont come with the house but it adds to the feeling of clutter and distracts the eye
• More interior photos needed from a variety of angles
• I love your kitchen!

It's a lot of money for what it is, more so as it needs quite a bit of work doing to to, particularly aesthetically. Terrible carpets which need to be ripped out, and the open plan downstairs isn't done well. The kitchen is terrible.
Next door's front and back gardens look overgrown and uncared for which could indicate a difficult neighbour.

Tbh, I don't think you've added any value since buying. (If anything, it looked so much better before you bought/redecorated). I suspect this is why at its current price, no interest.

I agree, its always the price!

The kitchen doesn't really look like a kitchen. It's cold and empty.
You don't show the garages or the entrance to them at the back.

I feel for you OP. Your home is taking quite a bashing on the thread, and it must feel quite personal. I hope you can take it as constructive, as I'm sure that is how the comments are meant, although they do come across as quite harsh.

Personally, I love your lounge. The base colour is quite neutral, but there's lovely splashes of colour with the chairs and cushions etc.

I do agree about the kitchen though. It is an odd layout, and with the vacuum etc stored around the fridge/freezer, it could appear that there is a lack of storage.

The garden looks very narrow in your photographs, but if you look again at the previous listing that someone else has linked, it looks much wider - perhaps you could address that and stop it looking so cramped.

I wonder if the steps from the kitchen down to the garden could put people with young children off? Not something I suppose you can do anything about - is there another access to the garden.

As others have said, if you haven't had a single viewing since you put it onto the market, it's going to be the price that's putting buyers off.

Finally, I do agree that the garage should be played up more. With street parking presumably an issue, having a double garage with access straight into the garden would be a plus.

Haven't read all the comments but I wouldn't consider it a proper 4 bed house but more a 3 bed house due to the small size of bedroom 4.

It's only the size of a study or nursery, in my opinion. That may be affecting how many people would be interested in buying it at that price if potential buyers are also mentally redefining it as a 3 bed with extra study/nursery.

Normal CPI inflation has been 30% since 2018, which discounts house prices anyway. I'm not sure whether one can expect a house value yo keep up with that.

That figure is according to the bank of England calculator. If inflation had stayed at 2% throughout that time it would be 15%. I'm not sure what has gone wrong but I do know that I don't earn 30% more than I did then.

It's nice inside, and looks well presented, and I love the big bathroom, but as is often said on this type of thread, it's nearly always the price when a house is not garnering interest/not selling.

Also, parking? Where do you park? Not sure if I've overlooked it in the description, but parking/having somewhere to put your car is a dealbreaker for most people, especially when they're paying nearly £400K for a house. Also, mid terraced? Some people are not keen. (Sorry.)

The video tour is very very slow to get going, I got bored and clicked away before it had left the front garden, so you could ask them to edit that.

And the lack of a table or any cosiness in the kitchen would really put me off, could you maybe move two small arm chairs & a coffee table to near the back door and re-do the kitchen photos? Make sure you can see the bar stools in the photos too, because in most of the kitchen photos it looks like there’s nowhere at all to sit down in the whole room.

This one is lovely. And a much better price. Yours looks like you did the downstairs then ran out of steam for upstairs and the garden.

I'm in ireland where you could sell a dirty toilet for half a million right now, but my parents and my best friend are currently trying to sell in the UK and neither had ANY viewings. My insights are not very specific or helpful but I guess I'm saying you are absolutely not alone.

The kitchen and dining room put me off so strongly that I wouldn't consider a viewing.

Dining tables belong in the kitchen or their own room, not in an open plan lounge.

The problem with the kitchen is the long central unit. There's nowhere for an entertaining space.

And because its newly done, the price means I couldn't justify ripping it out - nor could I live with it.

Honestly, I agree with the other comments that the house looked better before. Natural ' eclectic 'design doesn't come easily to everyone and it just doesn't work here. Throwing lots of bright, zingy colours around in an attempt to mimic mcm retro fashion doesn't fit with the grey, heavy duty carpets, muted green chimney breasts or pedestrian looking sofa. I'd be tempted to strip it all back, throw Egyptian cotton on all the walls, get rid of the 'quirky' lamps/decoration and neutralise everything. Not much you can do with the kitchen, really that's been poorly designed but definitely remove the hanging wooden shelf and attached plastic spatulas!

The property was all white, grey, and black before and that striped stair carpet was hideous! 😬 The bright white kitchen was minging too. (In the 2018 listing.)

Although, as you say, when it's more bland and boring, it's easier for people to change/put their own stamp on it. Bit more difficult to do it to this one how it is now.

The kitchen is a disappointment and you’ve barely got any good photos of it.

Or office.
If you can’t take out the table can you take up the carpet under it?
Who eats on a carpet??

Also - the pulley is the kitchen over the island is odd. Screams no space to store utinsels - keep them in a box you take away for viewings if need be.

When we sold I had a box of neutral furnishings I put out and loaded up the car with wash baskets, coloured cushions and boxes of toys that used to live on the floor…

I’m just down the A1 @Onwayto50 in Rutland and that seems hugely expensive for Grantham.

Nothing is selling though, I am tracking properties keenly as in the midst of divorce (although not ready to list yet) and even lovely stuff is hanging around and reducing multiple
times.

I do think your kitchen layout is unusual and warrants better photos. It does look a bit dark and narrow although beautifully finished.

Kitchen has no space for a dining table due to the large island, that would put me off, I don’t like eating in or near the lounge. The kitchen if differently designed looks like it could have space for a table. The carpets look cheap and it looks like carpet on the bathroom floor?