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

[Sheepcountryside78]

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Hi
Good luck on selling! Wish you the best
It does not look like a 4 bedroom house in the pictures. Could you at least remove the office furniture/ clothes rails and changing table and borrow or put in a bed to do new pictures?

OP I think the space under the stairs could be transformed by some in built storage instead.

The photos are not the best, they don’t show the rooms as being very spacious, maybe try to get some better photos. Also the front of the house looks very drab

It is a 3 bedroom house. The room where you have the bed and computer, do you have to walk through that room to get to the 3rd floor? It looks like you have squashed a bed into a hallway to me. How is that a bedroom?

The front is awful, at first glance it looks like a detached but then you realise that it is next doors garage and the front is really just a car park. To then find that it's not really a 4 bed would put me off looking.

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Hey OP - As others have said the front looks a bit unappealing and it looks a bit cramped inside.
Not sure how practical it is to take new photos but if you're going down that route I think a big beautiful climber/rose/tree right on the edge of where your property ends and your neighbour's begins would.look really nice and maybe distract/obscure the neighbour's blue garage door. Also some low maintenance buxus hedge planters along the front and down the side would soften the facade and add a bit of interest. Make sure the paving's immaculate.

Also some of the furniture looks a bit big for the space. Maybe lose one of the sofas in the living room and replace with small proportioned armchairs.
Get rid of the big office chair in the small room or at least tuck it under the desk.

In essence - give a sense of space.

This is a little quirk of mine but I always think nurseries/cots mean the house is too small for a growing family and is why it's being sold. Ditto clothes rails (no storage).

It's a nice house OP and nothing majorly wrong IMO. Maybe look at what's sold near you recently and do a compare and contrast of the listing wording/styling/price etc.
Good luck! Hope you're sold.aoon.

I agree with what's already been said. I'd also make sure there's a photo of the hall and the landing.

I'm also intrigued about how the people next door get into their house!

All the first floor bedrooms are very small (and only one bath between them). but the one with the bed under the stairs is very off putting.

What’s the average price for a 3 bed semi near you? Price as that with a slight top up, not a 4 bed. You will be getting 4 bed people through the door after a bargain who quickly realise it doesn’t have what they need.

If you instead get 3 bed people in who get a bonus study/storage room, you’ll have more luck. And cut some clutter if you can to help.

Signed someone who struggled to sell a similar loft conversion! We eventually sold to people who only needed a two bed, not the dozens of people who came round expecting a 3 bed family home and were disappointed in the size. It was fine for us - and our buyers - but it was pitched wrongly to start with and wasted a lot of time.

Possibly paint a line to show where the driveway is divided? Or use plant pots and/or garden ornaments to do so. It looks like one big house in the picture. The price is a bit high but then I'm looking for a house that costs a tenner 😂and the bed under the stairs is a bit tight.. otherwise it's a lovely home.

How on earth do your neighbours get into their house?

The outside is really off-putting - the front (where the drive is) looks really cold and uninviting and the garden looks messy and un-cared for.

Inside, the downstairs is lovely but apart from the master bedroom, all the bedrooms look really, really cramped. Picture 9 barely even looks big enough to be marketed as a bedroom.

It looks like it would be better off marketed as a three bed plus study.

Great house. Bedroom 4 is definitely a bedroom (I’d list it as Bedroom 4 / Study) although a better photo angle could soften the stairwell.

Take down pictures 15, 16 and 17, and do what you can to glam up the exterior. The interior is very nice, but the exterior pics give the impression of a run-down area with unloved properties. If the street is actually nice then taking the pics down should help get people round to see for themselves. If the whole street really does look like pic 17, then you may need to lower the price.

When I first looked through your photos my initial thought was everything looks a bit grubby. The dark colours and cramped rooms give this impression I think. I would get rid of every item of furniture that isnt essential. The front of the house looks scruffy, and it isn't clear where your front door is, or where your driveway starts.

The house is 4 bedrooms but in the pictures 3 of the rooms barely look big enough for a single bed. I'm sure they are (big enough for a single bed) but the way they are dressed - bed squeezed in so the mattress can't even lie flat/ cot and a few bits/mini size bed in the other makes it look like it wouldn't.

Perhaps you could get some pictures where the rooms are dressed with a bed - perhaps buy a very cheap/light second hand divan off ebay, put nice bedding on and put it in each room in turn and take a picture.

105 SQM is small for a 4 bed.

The frontage isn't the most aesthetic.

How are other small 4 beds semi-detached priced?

Your neighbours house looks quite unkept externally too. Not a lot you can do about that but appeal to a market of people that need 4 beds but don't have the budget to be too particular. You just need to make sure you're priced competitively for the size, rooms, split layout and the bits you can't change cheaply.

Jet washing the front might help a bit and clearing any clutter.

Paint fence at front of the house and brighten up the front a bit with hanging baskets or potted plants. Living room looks a bit small, but nothing you can do about that. Love the kitchen.

It is always an indication that the front of the house isn't very attractive when the photo of it is way down the list of photos. If the garage door was yours I'd think you didn't care about your house. Sadly it's your neighbour's door and I would wonder what scruffy buggers I would be moving next to . It would put me right off.

I honestly think it looks lovely. The only thing that would put me off is it looks like the patio is on a slope. Good luck

On street view, the street and your house looks much more pleasant than pic 17. I'd ask for a retake, making sure the focus isn't the neighbours grubby garage.

That blue door!

Was originally a 2 bed? And it’s now has a loft conversion and someone has made a large room into 2 rooms with a stud wall?

if they have, I would advise you to take the wall out and make it one large room.

How do people watch TV? It must hurt their neck?

The "peachy right" and comment at the end of the description needs to be removed as its unprofessional. The "not wasting an inch" suggests your home is small.

I agree with other posters about the bed under the stairs & the frontage. Maybe some cheap plant pots or something to separate the two houses will help. I would also get rid of the units in the lounge and bathrooms as well as the hanging rail in the room with the cot, it looks untidy and makes the buyer think there's not enough room.

Jet wash the drive for sure. Take out the shampoos from the bathroom. Take the bed from under the stairs - could the desk go there instead? Take the trolley clothes rack from the children’s room. The extension into the roof doesn’t seem to fit - so is the house priced above that of the area?

It doesn’t sound like I liked the house but there are some nice rooms - as a 3 bed with an office/study.