House not selling (with listing)

[Houseadvice26]

Posted here for traffic. Thoughts welcome please!

Purchased for £360k in 2023
Heavily renovated
Reduced gradually from £495k last year
Now on with a new EA for £400k

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/165327158#/?channel=RES_BUY

Oh dear God! OP, I mean this kindly, don’t try flipping another house. You obviously don’t have the required skills.

Externally, the home benefits from a private driveway with space for multiple vehicles, a garage, and a low-maintenance rear garden—the perfect black canvas for the lucky new homeowner to design their dream garden!

From the EA's blurb. I'll say no more.

Yes the tiles don’t look great

Congratulations! I think this is the first time I have seen a reno decrease the value of a property 😱

I agree that the weeds need to go, but as a mid century house owner myself I disagree that it’s ugly. I quite like the black against the original yellow brick.

Really like the parquet flooring. Where did you get it?

Personally I think that era of house needs the right artwork and furniture to make it look great, obviously it’s looks a bit empty at the moment. But I can see past that, it’s quite a cool house. But nobody with a Live Life Love type interior taste will see it 😁

Your agent is crap
Very bad advice

You ripped out a beautiful, original cast iron bath plus beautiful shrubbery and greenery 😢
your EA is wrong a beautiful garden like that was a selling point
if you want to sell it then dress it - where’s the furniture?!
the kitchen doesn’t look like it has been heavily renovated
you’ve butchered that house and actually decreased its value

OP why is it marketed as a retirement property at a different price on Zoopla?

I think op is taking the piss. Or this isn’t her house. No way would you destroy a house and claim it’s ’insta worthy.’ I’d imagine this whole thread is to dig at someone else

I don't care about some bedrooms being downstairs. That is the style of many houses round here and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The house is also on a well-kept cul de sac and it looks like a nice family area.

But dearie me. The facade is really, really bad. The plants/shrubs broke up the big expanse of brickwork as did the wee border at the front. There are no pictures of the (prevoiusly very nice) garden. The kitchen photographs show a dated kitchen which has just been painted.

It just looks very un-lived in. No blinds or window coverings. What is picture 2 as it looks like a bathroom/loo without a door? No sofa, just a solitary Ikea chair and a weird desk thing. Very very grey.

But I do like the herringbone flooring. @Houseadvice26 you need lots more pictures done. At LEAST one photo of every single room. Borrow furniture or rent it to make it look at least a bit lived in - at the moment you are not giving any clues where anyone would put a sofa, telly, dining table. And put a tree against that brick wall!!

Oh don’t be ridiculous - I know which I’d prefer

but agree with you on everything else

where has the lovely sun room gone OP?

my thoight too. All I can see is this through a window which looks distinctly unnattractive.

"reno" Insta account.

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This is no renovation, I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. Everything new looks so cheap that it'd fall apart after five minutes. It's a cheapo flip you thought you'd make a packet from.

It looks soulless, like it's been done up to sell (which i guess it has) but without any "homely" feeling at all. It looked much nicer from the front before.

It's also a very, very generic makeover - laminate flooring/grey carpet/patterned floor tiles in the bathroom, some of which has become dated already, like the black bathroom fittings. And the kitchen is not good, bland and dated.

You need to put some homeliness and warmth back, better photos including some of the garden. Maybe clad that front wall part to make it look a bit less municipal.

And if you're selling as being done up, you need to fix the fence that's falling down l.

That was a mistake, astroturf is hideous stuff.

The kitchen looks half finished with few cupboards

I'm so sorry to sound so harsh but the outside looked much nicer with the garden. It looks horrible now and I'm not a fan of the interior either. I wouldn't even give it a second look online let alone in person. Good luck though. I'm sure it will be to someone's taste, just not mine.

oh my god I have just seen what you did to the garden. Shocking.

Very nice!

Is It necessary that the house gets the appropriate response on “Insta”? Is that how houses sell these days?! Regardless, it looks unkempt and uncared for, and depressing and sad.

Weed the front and back. Restore some living plants and colour. That would be a start!

Honestly @Houseadvice26 .... It has zero kerb appeal from the pics on it. And it's waaaaay too grey and bland IMO. There is nothing appealing about it - for me. 2 small bedrooms on the ground floor, then 2 long thin bedrooms on the first floor that have a sloping roof because they're kind of in the roof. Small kitchen, L-shaped, hard-to-work-with lounge/diner, stairs (descending out of the lounge/diner,) and the bathroom downstairs... (And does the bathroom have the only toilet?) You can't even put any wardrobes in the 2 upstairs bedroom, they are reaaallly hard to furnish.

Sorry to be rude, it's just my opinion. I mean obviously someonew will like it, as you clearly did as you bought it! I think it's still overpriced, even though you have dropped the price. I know a number of people who bought a property for £400K to £450K 3-5 years ago, and they have them up for £100K to £125K more, and they have done nothing to them, (or very little,) other than decorate it to their taste and style. And they seem puzzled that the houses aren't selling. They won't accept that they are wildly overpriced.

You may need to drop your house to £350K @Houseadvice26 I think most of the things that may be putting people off cannot really be altered. Although the price can be!

This is a scheme where a company buys your house, and then sells a lifetime lease to someone else for around 60% of the real value (depending on your age/health). When you die, they own the house not you

Why did you get rid of all the plants at the front? I actually like the renovation but id have made more of a fuss with the kitchen tbh, hub of the home etc with being 4 bed. Id have come through the wall in dining room and done a big kitchen with island and then proper dining table too.

No pics of rear garden either.....is it secure etc?

I assume this is a flipped house purely for profit? Harsh lesson if youve potentially lost 95k on initial listing.

The biggest problem is the atrocious photos. Your second photo, after the exterior one, needs to be a “wow” picture of something like the living space or kitchen, preferably making it look as large and appealing as possible. Your second picture is of a wall and two glimpses of loos that are right next to each other. It’s off-putting. The idiot agent has also climbed into the bath to take another unnecessary picture of the same bathroom that already has other pictures. So, better pictures with some sort of continuity are necessary. Is that utility area still there? Why no photo of that?

The exterior looks like a stable or something, especially with the garage door and the paved yard area in front. It needs some sprucing so that it says “home.”

Can the garage fit a car? It doesn’t look like it. If not it needs to be relabeled imo. If it can there needs to be a photo to better show the size.

The grey is awful. This country is grey enough without bringing the grey indoors as well. I suppose there’s nothing to be done about the dated, unappealing charcoal carpet but the stairs and some of the walls can at least be painted and the bedding changed. When going for neutral always choose white or beige over grey, which often comes across as cold and depressing especially in a house as empty as this.

I think those are the easiest ways to gain some interest. The kitchen is very dated but would be expensive to redo. Unless that weird green is a covering that can be removed, rather than paint? I think the pale wood is more appealing and could have been left alone if not being replaced.