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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Get the front of the house pic retaken so it doesn’t show the neighbouring garage door.

put some planters to delineate your side.

clear the kitchen surfaces

the main bedroom bed doesn’t look inviting - plump pillows etc and maybe cushions

the bathrooms look tiny.

the teeny room with the stair - is it even big enough for a bed? Lose the bed or lose the desk, it’s too small for both.

Price and you might be making a mistake marketing it as a 4 bed.

The smallest bedroom is mostly stairs. People wanting a 4 bed will be disappointed, people wanting a 3 bed would be happy with an extra study

Looks lovely. I agree with the comments re photo 9.
Also a bit more decluttering.
I do know that property sales are slow at the moment.
Good luck

Why does the room with the cot in it have a clothes rail out as well as a wardrobe?

I would market as a 3 bed plus study.

I’m not sure on the price for the area but going by the pics I personally think the room is pic 9 is too cramped.

I don’t like the front, looks very unkept and not nice to look at. But think I have just read the blue garage door isn’t yours? If so pic needs updating to only show your home at the front as I can’t tell where the split is.

I also am not keen on the garden. I prefer one level but obviously not a lot you can do about that.

Yeah there are rules about what you can call a bedroom..you’d be better off describing it as a 3 bed and changing that to a study. Are your estate agents any good? They don’t seem to have put much thought in to the photos.

I think it look cluttered honestly. Clearly for you it is up to you how much furniture you have in each room, but I would say that for appeal to others you want just the basics. For me, it's difficult to picture how a full room would look emptier, so to see the actual space.

pic 2 - remove shelving
pic 5 - remove a sofa
pic 9 - remove wicker baskets and chair (or put chair under desk)
pic 10 - remove clothes rail and unit in front of radiator

Well it's not a four bedroom for a start. The roof extension stairs took out what was then the third bedroom. That really needs to be redefined as a study at best. No downstairs loo as well.

I just think it's a three bedroom house pretending to be bigger.

Also the dark blue wall in the living area doesn’t really go with the colour of blue in the sofas and would be a nightmare to paint a different colour.

I'm not keen on the downstairs flow. It looks not that easy to access the back garden, you have to squeeze past the coffee table and sofa. I'd probably rearrange the sofas so that the seating area and walkway to door areas are separate.

It's the round toilet seat on the square toilet... 😬

Kern appeal. I think the estate agents photos are awful. Not a single one is taken from an angle that enhances. You need a shot of the front that cuts out your next door neighbour. Their scruffy garage door is doing you no favours. Jet wash the drive. Add some plants. Define your space. Declutter. Things like the exposed clothes rail is really off putting. The back garden looks drab. Sorry.

Where i like this house would at least £600k but obviously, as PP have said, you need to see what other things are on in your area. Ultimately, it comes down to price.

However, I don't think the photos are amazing to be honest. And I agree the outside shot doesn't help. It took me a while to work out that that was your neighbour's house and I spent a while wondering how they get in to their house as it's doesn't look like they have a side path. That could make people worry about access?

I think photo 5 of your lounge makes it look very long and narrow. Photo 9 should come way after other pictures of the bedrooms - it implies this is the 2nd biggest room but I presume that photo 11 is the double on the first floor? Photo 10 looks like someone was standing in the cot to take it! And photo 14 almost looks like something someone has taken by mistake.

Having read the way the description is written I might also worry that the agents are a bit annoying (or more annoying than usual). Do they have a good reputation? There's an agency in my town that I would never sell through and would only consider buying from them if they had my absolute dream house.

Eek. The house is lovely but two of the bedrooms look tiny - esp. the one with the bed crammed under the stairs. And the front could do with some TLC! Pots, hanging baskets? What is the tatty blue door?

I probably wouldn't do anything to it but lower the price. A house is worth what someone will pay for it and it may be you need to reconsider the price. The front door/garage thing is quite confusing and I would be put off by a shared drive, it is a shared drive right? So I would probably take that photo out.

Agree the front of house needs to be from the other angle and show just your house.

I didn’t realise it was semi with shared drive and couldn’t work out at first why outside was so much larger than the inside!

Then add some nice colourful flowers in your planters!

And then a picture of your front door.

After a quick look I think
no ground floor toilet - essential IMO in what is likely going to be a family home.

bedroom with desk - that bed looks so squeezed in and it’s obvs from the mattress that it doesn’t fit, could you turn the bed so it’s under the window?

garden - the retaining wall looks bleak, maybe put some climbers against it to make a nicer view?

I think the front of the house looks a bit drab and scruffy and i don't think the images are very good I would want them taken again with better angles / perspectives.

mow the lawn, tidy up the back garden to make it look more appealing.

add some planters, jet wash the drive, use planters to separate from the neighbours house, take a picture without their grotty garage (or offer to paint it for them!).

Focus on the outside of the house. Downstairs looks lovely.

The room with the bed under the slope looks bad, you would be better styling it as an office, or making that a nursery and the nursery a spare room/office. Has one bedroom been made into two at some point?

There is no point reducing by that amount. Anyone interested in a property around 300k will already have looked probably fro 350k downwards. People looking at 250/275k will be looking at properties up to 300k. Price points make all the difference in searches.

At first glance it does look like the blue door is yours, it's very hard to see it's separate from your house. Everything sort of blends into each other at the front of the house. You can't even see your front door. I'd definitely sort out the front area and get photos re done, you can move things from room to room when the photos are being done.

Front approach looks boring and there's green algae on the wall. No separation from the neighbours. It needs a divider of some sort.
One photo of the living room looks spacious but the next photo of it looks really narrow.
The shower room photo is terrible, looks tiny and the angle shows pipework.
The bedrooms look small because of the toddler beds/cot, and like they wouldn't fit a double bed, whereas the tiny room with an actual bed is massively cramped and looks to have no storage with the hats on the curtain pole.

The selling points are nice kitchen, nice master bedroom, big driveway.

Get some better photos. There's an art to house photos and these could be much better.

Living further north, I was quite surprised to see a 4 bed for sale at £315k in Swindon (similar properties here are £400k+).

I agree the problem might be marketing as a 4 bed. I’m looking for a 4 bed but would rule yours out simply because of the bed under the stairs room. I expect a fourth bedroom to be small but if you put the bed anywhere but under the stairs it looks like you’d fit nothing else in. My DC are all growing so that wouldn’t work.

Marketing as a 3 bed would, as others have said, open your house up to people searching for a 3 bed within the price bracket and offer the bonus of a separate study/home office.

How do next door get in to their house? Through the garage??

The market is tough at the moment. You just need to make more effort with all the photos. But the estate agents should have advised you on this.