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??

Decor is lovely, but the mixed colours in the rooms make the rooms seem clunky, reminds me of lego-and awkward. The rooms seem narrow and clausophobic like. The garden is just ok...again narrow.

Well, it was £340k 18 mo ths ago and it looked nicer back then? You clearly spent money on it but it has not added value, the spaces don't look well defined and the kitchen looks so weird now consisting of what it seems a very long island, whilst before you had a proper kitchen dinner. The fact that you are selling so soon too rings alarm bells.

I don’t know the area, but from what others have said most likely it will be the price. Better photographs of the kitchen would help too - not to be unkind, but the island looks like a lab bench in those photos and I could picture an alien cadaver being dissected on it! It also seems to have created a hell of a lot of wasted space. Unlike many on Mumsnet, I love a kitchen island (have one myself), but it has to be size-appropriate and in the right space. If the kitchen had been configured better, there would have been plenty of space for a decent sized dining table too. I realise the kitchen was already there when you bought the house, but I think you also need to take into account that a lot of potential buyers are going to want to change it completely, and take that into account with the price.

This
House looks stunning

Too expensive.

Lots of clutter, which makes it look like there is a huge lack of storage.

Scruffy garden and the patio/steps up to the patio doors look like an absolute death trap AND really unattractive.

Kitchen is bizarre, puts me in mind of a train station rather than a kitchen - having just a central island might suit you but it looks like you've cheaped out of putting in a proper kitchen and have gone with a freestanding Ikea island - so immediately people are adding 20K+ to the asking price to fit a proper kitchen. It again reaffirms the lack of storage as you've got stuff badly hidden under the table and a freestanding unit with a kettle on it that also looks scruffy.

As is - drop the price by about 80K..

Or if the area could actually stand that price, tidy the garden, put in a proper kitchen and do something about the awful steps/patio. I would also make a big deal about there being a double garage and vehicular access to the rear of the property as that is a big selling point.

I think a couple of improvements could be made, the kitchen feels a bit corridor like an lacking in atmosphere due to this, I’d suggest moving the table that is in the kitchen to one of the corners of the room, and if you have the funds, make it a round table, the room feels very boxy and a round table would improve this. Garden would benefit from being broken up into a couple of ‘rooms’ with maybe some screening maybe a planted trellis, again if funds allow. Also I feel there are too many personal effects in some of the rooms, especially the ‘game zone’ and the (teenage?) boys bedroom, could do with some pairing down of items just whilst you are trying to sell. Having a lot of items out on display gives the impression there is a lack of storage, and this is one thing that would put me off.
on the plus side the living room/dining room is lovely as it is. Hope that helps some! 💐

Wow, very negative and unjustifiably so

A lovely home, but I would say the price. I don't know the area but £390,000 for a terrace house in the Midlands seems overpriced to me.

I've just had a look at the back of the house using street view on Google. The access to the garage is very tight. There is graffiti on one of the garages and an old sofa down there. Also is that an abandoned caravan in your neighbour's garden?

I know, I always look for previous prices and check the old advert’s pictures. It puts me off when there is such a price increase and nothing to show for it. But it is “the market”.

It’s Grantham and overpriced is the answer. There’s nothing in the town which is described as “Everything you need and nothing you want”. I know someone who lives there purely because houses are cheap.

The kitchen is dreadful, it’s all island and no storage space. Most people would factor in the cost of redoing that which would take the price to well over £400k. It simply isn’t worth the money.

And no offence to the OP but that house is way nicer, much more homely and inviting

The loft bedroom doesn't look like it would meet building regs. It only has a funny half height sloping door (surely not a fire door?) so straight up I'd question whether that can even safely be used as a bedroom.

Which points are unjustified? The kitchen? The carpets? The boiler? The loft room door? The garden fence? Other people have said the same. Additionally they are all true.

I'm not really sure where your valuer has got your price from, it's a least £60k too much compared with other similar properties.

Front garden/ kerb appeal is great, but you needed to have seriously decluttered before the interior photo were taken. There's also too much personal stuff on show as well in my opinion, I'd take some of the pictures and artwork down.

Drop the price to the right market value and redo the photo's is my suggestion.

Ho hum I love a hanging rack in the kitchen, so useful for all the things that clatter around in drawers, also for onion and garlic strings, drying herbs. I wish I could have got one into this house but the kitchen lighting wouldn’t tolerate it.

But I don’t think the presence or otherwise of a hanging rack is the crux here. Price and better phots, really. Oh and a picture of two cars parked in the garage.

It was nicer in the before photos - I know that’s very subjective but to my eye I preferred the look before and the improvements have devalued it for me.

But some times it really is the market. In one of our moves the house sold for 1/3 more than we paid in just 3 years. We’d only painted one nursery and that was it. That was purely supply and demand.

No help but just wanted to say I love your house and style. Lovely to see some colour xx

Your photos are pretty poor, too much v obviously stretching which , combined with the lack of room measurements on the floor plan, would absolutely put me off.

Photo 9 should be photo 2. It's the best photo of your inside. The kitchen photos make it look like a v narrow corridor.

I can’t comment on price as don’t know the area but the house is lovely . The kitchen pics are a bit weird as where is the actual cooking area? The pictures just repeat the long narrow island.

Beautifully presented but for me the kitchen isn't very inviting. I can see the design is trying to make the most of the long and narrow space but it just feels like a room you'd want to get the cooking done with.

Also the stairs leading down to the garden would put off people with young kids or those with mobility issues.

@Onwayto50 I love the house but the two things that put me off are the kitchen and the bathroom.

Starting with the kitchen; it does not (IMO) actually look like a kitchen at all. It looks like a waste of 2 rooms with a long white table stuck in the middle. I would have pictures or something on the walls - anything to break up the “thinness” of the room.

The main bathroom; I loathe the black features. This is purely personal and Im not sure what else you could do about it, aside from adding a load of green plants to detract from it?

Otherwise, I love everything about it!

We have been on for 10 weeks. 2 viewings, no offers. dropped the price by 30% after 4 weeks and still nothing. we are at the higher end of the market locally and literally no one is buying. we are doing what we can to promote it but cant put the price down again. also, I am definately not renting it out not now that labour have bought in the new rental rules. they need to do something and fast. the whole market for mid to high priced houses in my area has ground to a halt.

I've Just seen the previous pictures from before you moved in, I would try and replicate the way they presented the kitchen as it was very well done.

Looks lovely but I have no idea where Grantham is!