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House not selling (with listing)

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Houseadvice26 · 15/02/2026 16:40

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

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Happytaytos · 15/02/2026 17:57

Wait guys, guys it's got a lovely fire and surround dressed ready for insta..... 50k increase for £50 from dunelm.

OP I'm sorry because this is your life and you're not going to get anywhere near 400k.

diddl · 15/02/2026 17:57

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Looked a smallish garden anyway.

Pulled up for easy maintenance but hasn't been maintained!

Frenchfrychic · 15/02/2026 17:58

I think it’s unfortunate timing for you as you’ve done it to try to match a trend that’s now dated.

sadly it looks soulless, it’s the grey, lack of colour and the initial outside photo is unappealing.

personally I’d clean up the front, add some pots and greenery, and I’d put some lovely furniture in, to try to soften it and make it more appealing, or I think you may find it’s unsellable unless the price drops significantly.

if I’m honest I’m not sure either of you have an eye for interior design, but have instead followed a dying trend but too much,without understanding it’, ie using cold blue toned greys instead of warm yellow toned ones,

I think dressing it now is the only way forward. Soft cream or oatmeal sofa, warm jewel coloured cushions, a large luxurious rug, some art work. I think you can rent stuff, and then detract from the coldness;

WiddlinDiddlin · 15/02/2026 17:58

Er, well in the street view pics, when I found it (you might want to get the EA to pin the correct property) it does have some kerb appeal.

You seem to have swapped pretty border planting and flower bed for dollop of tarmac, piles of gravel and weeds.

Hiding the garden is an error - I assume from your posts here that you've not turned it into an easy to maintain flagged yard, but just dumped more tarmac on it as you've done out front, and nothing more. Snippets of garden view from the internal pictures show weeds, tat, broken fencing. If you think thats 'insta worthy' then you're looking at a very different instagram to me!

Its not the easiest property to sell, it definitely doesn't need a cloakroom AND a family bathroom downstairs.

I'd get rid of the WC, turn half of it into a coat cupboard, use the other bit to give access to the livingroom/diner so you don't HAVE to use the kitchen route.

Make the current downstairs bathroom a reasonably accessible shower room (not necessarily hand rails and so on, but a shower, big enough to fit a bench seat in, room to bring in a wheelchair or place a chair). Make the upstairs have a full bath.

Make sure there is level access to the whole ground floor in and out - if you can widen doorways to 33" all throughout, then it would appeal to the wheelchair using market AND those wanting to future proof against failing mobility - and bungalows with small gardens are prime 'disabled people and older people' territory here.

It is entirely possible to do that and still appeal to the family market (and families do have disabled people in them!).

I wouldn't even ask the EA about this property, it looks scruffy and unappealing on the outside, i can't find it easily on the map, it looks like you're trying to hide the outside and by that point I have lost interest in looking any further.

Tidy up, dress it to suggest how one would live in it OR clear it entirely, consider making some relatively small adaptations to make it appeal to a wider market.

ghostyslovesheets · 15/02/2026 17:59

I’m fairly sure the OP is on a massive goady session but it does show what happens when you use insta as your design service rather than going with style and forward trends.

coloured bathrooms are making a comeback

ghostyslovesheets · 15/02/2026 18:00

Ps anyone wanting to contact Richard James EA and give them a stern talking to?

Lemondrizzle4A · 15/02/2026 18:00

First impressions. Boring, unkempt drive.
Inside- grey, grey and more grey. Rooms not furnished so it looks unloved.
kitchen is weird. Old fashioned green units but looks unfinished. View to outside shows fencing falling down.
I would swipe past it.
You need to smarten it up.

Tiramisutoyou · 15/02/2026 18:01

Lemondrizzle4A · 15/02/2026 18:00

First impressions. Boring, unkempt drive.
Inside- grey, grey and more grey. Rooms not furnished so it looks unloved.
kitchen is weird. Old fashioned green units but looks unfinished. View to outside shows fencing falling down.
I would swipe past it.
You need to smarten it up.

Can’t believe OP was going for insta ready

I think you e failed op

Happytaytos · 15/02/2026 18:01

I wouldn't get rid of the downstairs toilet, it looks like it's the only other one in the house outside the family bathroom. The shower room doesn't look big enough to have a bath fitted either.

Violetparis · 15/02/2026 18:02

Looks awful in the first photo, that would be enough to put me off. How can you not see that ?

Ohfudgeoff · 15/02/2026 18:02

Houseadvice26 · 15/02/2026 17:17

Yes. Looked to make it a bit more ‘insta-worthy’ and 2026 appropriate.

Agree it looked SO much better before 😭

So, 2026 and Insta want no soul and no plants do they?

MargeryBargery · 15/02/2026 18:02

The only reason a house doesn't get any interest is the price.

Decor, kerb appeal etc won't matter a jot if the price is right.

Roomgigi · 15/02/2026 18:02

Relist with Charles Harding - they took proper photos showing the property

SquishyGloopyBum · 15/02/2026 18:03

Why on earth did you rip out the garden? It was done for you!!

ElevensesKing · 15/02/2026 18:03

@Houseadvice26 what do you want to do now after getting all the feedback from here?

BoxingHare · 15/02/2026 18:03

if I’m honest I’m not sure either of you have an eye for interior design, but have instead followed a dying trend but too much,without understanding it’, ie using cold blue toned greys instead of warm yellow toned ones,

Yes, it smacks of someone hearing grey is trendy, then going out and buying grey things with no idea of putting together a look.

Ohfudgeoff · 15/02/2026 18:03

Violetparis · 15/02/2026 18:02

Looks awful in the first photo, that would be enough to put me off. How can you not see that ?

Don't look at the 'before' photo another poster found online further upthread. Looked so much better before 😟

BoxingHare · 15/02/2026 18:03

ElevensesKing · 15/02/2026 18:03

@Houseadvice26 what do you want to do now after getting all the feedback from here?

Go back to the EA and ask them what to do...

Willowskyblue · 15/02/2026 18:04

The first photo makes it look like an abandoned doctors surgery! Get rid of the weeds, plant some pots to create some interest.
The rest of the photos are very mediocre and it all looks a bit like you just couldn’t be bothered to stage it properly. I’d take it off the market, freshen the outside up, stage it properly and then put it back on the market.

suburburban · 15/02/2026 18:04

The exterior puts me off and then inside it looks a bit soulless

user1473878824 · 15/02/2026 18:05

Houseadvice26 · 15/02/2026 17:17

Yes. Looked to make it a bit more ‘insta-worthy’ and 2026 appropriate.

😬

BoxingHare · 15/02/2026 18:05

Houseadvice26 · 15/02/2026 17:55

Classy.

The opposite of what someone has done to that poor house.

Tiramisutoyou · 15/02/2026 18:06

Willowskyblue · 15/02/2026 18:04

The first photo makes it look like an abandoned doctors surgery! Get rid of the weeds, plant some pots to create some interest.
The rest of the photos are very mediocre and it all looks a bit like you just couldn’t be bothered to stage it properly. I’d take it off the market, freshen the outside up, stage it properly and then put it back on the market.

Yes! Drs surgery - who hasn’t kept up
with the times

and probably deals in dodgy prescriptions 😂😂

ElevensesKing · 15/02/2026 18:06

BoxingHare · 15/02/2026 18:03

Go back to the EA and ask them what to do...

@BoxingHare I don't think listening to her previous EA would be a good idea tbh. A pp mentioned another EA, Charles Harding, so might be worth speaking to them.

jeremyclarksonsthirdnipple · 15/02/2026 18:06

Bet you wished you hadn't asked OP! You must be really stressed. Its very difficult to follow trends to sell as fashions change so quickly. I don't know your financial situation obviously but could you rent it out? Or to offload quickly why don't you have a look at putting it into auction, it really is much quicker if finances allow.

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