Any suggestions on why house isn’t selling (with listing)

[Sheepcountryside78]

Posting for traffic. Reduced a couple of times previously - would welcome any opinions, brutal or otherwise!

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I 100% agree …stage the rooms for new photos ..Remove as many personal belongings as possible and buy some cheap neutral vases / plants to put on surfaces just for show . Remove all clothes books and get a large eiderdown /cover for the beds rather than your bedclothes . Throws and covers on sofas with matching cushions and minimal everything in every room .

Agree with kerb appeal. The blue door needs a fresh coat of paint, pavers and probably house itself
look like they could do with a pressure wash, a bit mouldy and grubby! But inside is lovely.

Seems over priced £80k increase in less than a year. The bedroom where the bed does not fit under the stairs needs looked at. Change to a 3 bed house as definitely not 4bed if a bed don't fit. Something to separate the front as no idea whose driveway is whose likewise with the back. Nearly all the photos scream small and tight space. Are you getting viewings? When you say you lowered the price twice what was it to start with.

I think it's the bed squished under stairs. It looks too cramped. I note you are selling for less than you bought it for. Maybe you overpaid when you bought it.

At first glance I’d buy if I could afford it! lol but now you’ve mentioned that blue door is the neighbours garage that would put many people off. Shared driveway? Rooms are quite dark and would be a headache to redecorate. Maybe make them more neutral get rid of the blue feature wall? Back garden is lovely

It's just full of clutter.
The kitchen has too much fitted kitchen in it cant imagine how you'd ever cook anything decent in there. Just too much stuff in it if you ask me.

But as others have said maybe it is just the price

It doesn't look good from the front, no kerb appeal. The blue door is tatty, paint it. Jet wash the parking area and put in some plants in pots. As it's coming to autumn, some topiary in pots that you could put solar lights on would create kerb appeal. Take out the photo of the bed by the sloping ceiling.

How are people not realising that the blue door is next doors?! It’s obviously a semi, look at the back garden fence 🙄

I'd say it has something to do with the fact that it looks like a detached from the front and there is no clear division between yours and next door. It looks confusing to people. You need a clear divider between the two, potted plants at the front and take bed out of room with desk and have as a study!

For me, everything is too small. I appreciate technically it's 4 beds but that little room on the 1st floor is more of an office space. Perhaps marketing as a 3 bed would be better.
If the garden gets sun, get some pictures of it in the sun.
Cut out next door's horrendous garage from the front picture, get the drive pressure washed and put something green into those pots.
Remove the clutter in pic 10 and the bathrooms.
Put a fitting seat on the main toilet.
You asked for brutally honest, good luck with the sale.

It’s definitely the outside that’s letting it down. You don’t need to spend a lot - a couple of big planters, a hanging basket, paint the garage door, clean the drive etc. Definitely don’t reduce it yet. These small things make all the difference. My very first flat was quite small and I thought it would fly. The feedback was that there was no space to eat, so I purchased a small table and 2 chairs, rearranged the living room and the very next viewer made an asking price offer. This was after the estate agent had suggested reducing it by 25k!

Lovely inside but the front doesn't reflect that. Personally id ask the estate agent to redo the pics. The angles dont do the rooms justice.

I think you house is lovely but still a little too you decorated in your taste with some very bold colours /paper. I would make this neutral light throughout.

I know nothing about these things, but I think it would look less crammed, with fewer sofas, and generally less stuff.

Hide the clothes rail and put a chair there. It could make a useful workspace with a desk.

Is there any way you could put a fence up to hide your neighbours garage door, or ask them could you paint it?

It looks a perfectly nice house to me, but I don't know what the prices are like in your area. Where I live (east London), you wouldn't get a decent flat for that price.

Personally, I am not keen on the two-level arrangement at the back of the house - not that good for families with young children - and it is a bit overlooked. I agree that the front of the house looks a bit shabby and unattractive. I'm sure that can be rectified. Apart from these issues, the interior of the house looks very nice to me, modern and well maintained.

Do you get any feedback from the agent and have you checked the prices of similar houses in the same sort of locality? I am sure it will be sold in time, but you may have to reduce the price if you find it is way out of line with other properties nearby.

As one poster said, perhaps removing some items of furniture would assist. It would make rooms seem larger.

Kerb appeal. Looks lovely inside though. Get your drive professionally cleaned as in scrubbed and resanded as opposed to jet washed. Remove old tatty pots and repaint the garage door in a bright cheery colour. A few new pots of plants at the front,just a nice little group would make it look so much better

For me the last photo kills it. Inside nice and tidy although I agree about taking desk/bed out of one bedroom, but the driveway and garage door look shabby. Ground needs jetwashing and garage door needs painting.
Good luck though 😊

I'm not sure there's much you can do about most of the things I don't like:
Dirty drive
Front drab
Can't tell which bit of front is yours
Laminate floors
Living room looks narrow and how do you watch TV?
Kitchen too white
Kitchen tiles awful
Two bedrooms look tiny, especially the one with a desk in it
Bathroom tiles are hideous
Built in wardrobes are horrible and ugly
Garden is awful
There's not enough living space
The "view" is a housing estate
It's in Swindon

Sorry! I'm not your target buyer obviously!

You've had a lot of responses and I haven't read the whole thread but for me, it would be not enough living space downstairs and the master on a separate floor from the other two bedrooms - wouldn't want to be up and down stairs in the night when the toddlers wake (multiple times!). The kerb appeal factor doesn't bother me hugely tbh, that can easily be fixed when you move in but placement of bedrooms/size of living area can't so those are deal breakers.

I'd agree with the kerb appeal bit and removing the (not your) garage picture. I would not reduce more as it's competitively priced now....any more and I'd think you were hiding something. A rewording might help as well- you only have to state pros, unless a legal obligation potential buyers will search for anything else.
Good luck 👍

It's overpriced. If you scroll down there is 4 bed house with much bigger bedrooms and a much nicer garden for only 50k more.

I agree with the comments about the outside having low appeal.

You need a couple of big pots with trees/big plants either side of the door and planters/window boxes with brightly coloured flowers in front of the windows.
I'd paint all the boundary fences with dark green fence paint, as they currently look very dowdy.

It looks like all of the outside / garden areas have not been much cared for or adopted. To me that gives the property a bit of a "do-er upper to sell" vibe.

btw, I spell the word meaning edge of road as "kerb" and the word meaning to hold back or reduce as "curb". (My other name is PedantsRUs)

It's a 3 bedroom house with a bonus study or small walk in wardrobe