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

My honest opinion is that I don't like any of the tiles especially the main bathroom so I would want to change those asap. The kitchen is awful. The garden is awful - its a family home you need lawn!
Unfortunately if I were to buy a newly updated house it would have to be my specific taste and Im not sure this is anyone's taste.
Its not a turn key house, its half done and I wouldnt want the bother.
People either want some where they can put thier stamp on or fully done. Not this in-between. Im not sure what advise there is really, I think youll just have to take the hit on this.

Much much nicer front
Why OP have you removed the greenery ?

The grey interior really isn’t 2026 insta ready
Grey is old school now

If you want interest and at least your money back
put back the garden and the front planting as it was. Get rid of all the weeds. Fix the fence I can see it’s falling down in one image

Soften the interior. Reduce heavily the grey including the stair, some walls and definately that fireplace

Get a new photographer who just seems obsessed with ceilings

Well, I feel a bit sorry for the op. I mean there's constructive criticism and there's constant mockery. I think they've got the point. Have we had it looked better before enough times? .

Op, imo just get rid of the weeds and fix that back fence then put some furniture in it to make it look homely.

You bought the house to make a profit? That’s offputting

It doesn’t look lived in , it doesn’t feel like a home in the photos and the room dimensions seem small and without furniture you will assume it’s small.

I don't think that it is OP's property.

Sorry OP, it looks completely soulless. Why did you take all of the life out it?

is it unoccupied! It looks cold
and unloved. I’m not sure where I’d be supposed to put furniture and you don’t really have any! Needs colour, warmth, more furniture and much better photos

I like the colour of the kitchen units, but I don't like the tiles.

Don't like the herringbone(?) floor at all.

For me there would be too much work to do.

I'm convinced this is a wind up.

I wonder who did butcher this property.if it wasn't the OP.

Uninteresting, lacks personality, photos look very amateurish and undressed by a professional. Local price guide should show the price you should be looking for, not what you paid. I believe property prices have stagnated in Swindon.

Me neither.

Is it someone you know, rather than you?

Kindly OP, you are not going to even reach the £360k you paid for this.

It screams of Homes Under The Hammer rather than My Home Made Perfect I’m afraid.

Will review with hubby who is leading things. There was another option to look at subdividing and selling on that basis (for someone to manage/rent out) but we’d need to apply for a licence from the council which could take a long time.

Tidy the garden. I think people aren’t keen on bedrooms on both floors as it’s neither a bungalow or a house. Sloping ceilings on the first floor aren’t popular. Kitchen isn’t good if you’re after top price 😊

Thanks hun, luckily I’m thick skinned 😂

If I was a prospective purchaser I would offer about £310/320 to see what would bite!

We've all seen what you've done to this house, I really don't think accusing other posters of having no class is the way forward...

It’s dark, grey, weedy (uncared for) and the fence needs fixing. It looked much more welcoming pre renovations

Do says he thinks you ran out of money on this project and are not going to turn over a profit

Assuming that it is your house @Houseadvice26there are 2 things that I would do immediately.

1. tell estate to fix the location pin as it is completely wrong. This mistake on their part suggest an unprofessional approach.
2. Have a good look around the local area. Many of the neighbours use planting and pots/baskets to soften the yellow exterior brick. Copy some of their ideas after you have weeded outside.

The outside looks awful and the photos are terrible. You can’t see the whole room, just different bits of different rooms.

@Houseadvice26 Spending more money to subdivide it is madness. Present what you have done as nicely as possible, which is not hard and won’t cost a lot, and get it sold.

Christ. That is a fucking ugly house. The external before pic is miles better. It had lovely borders with attractive plants, now it has a strip of weeds.

Get to the garden centre tomorrow and buy two nice big bay trees in big planters and put them either side of that yellow brick wall. It needs foliage and life (Like it had before on the Google street view image!)

As a dweller in a 60s bungalow, we have had a few efforts like this on our estate, all have failed to sell.

You've kind of ruined it, you have removed a mature garden and replaced it with the odd weed.

You have painted the wooden cladding and existing garage door black, which looks grim, and is just paint, you should have replaced the cladding with zinc or tile hanging or just sanded it back and oiled it - its likely cedar, which should just be oiled.

Interior is bland and looks non lived in - its neither a warm family home, nor a cosy retirement place - sorry, poor effort

60s architecture is somewhere between brutalist and modernist it doesn't need help to be more brutalist, that's a style that has been out for decades.

This you have go some much potential - quick paint of shed - there are no photos of the garden. You need some nice huge wow pots outside and like olive trees outside the front door etc and pressure wash paving etc splashes of nice colour it all grey and unloved