House not selling (with listing)

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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

How did you find the original pics

Imagine picking that as the colour. I imagined the kitchen was the only thing not updated

It’s on the zoopla listing above

It would undoubtedly look far better dressed with stylish furniture so it shows off each rooms full potential. Some large green plants, and personality added.

Tidying the front garden, jet washing and adding some large stylish troughs in front of the front wall, with some big green plants would help. Turfing the back garden and making it more aspirational. Some nice garden furniture so people can imagine being outside in the summer.

Search for some aspirational images, dress it and get far better photos taken, in a sensible order, showing usable rooms.

To be fair, it literally IS a black canvas as they've covered it with some kind of membrane.

Where to start?

The first photo is apalling. Why did not leave the weeds in front of the house?
The black paint and window frames have a very limited appeal
4 bedroom house without a proper garden?
The fence is falling over

The fact you have a very well presented inside but you have ignored the garden and frontage screams to me that you are hiding interior problems.

No, you can see through the window. It is a black canvas.

If the parquet floor is real and not laminate, that's really lovely. I'd have taken the rest of it in a cool modernist direction to match.

Astro turfed gardens should be banned. Awful for biodiversity.

I'm an electrician, and have been involved in various flipping projects, there are two types of flippers - those who understand you need to invest cash in the property and do a good quality refurbishment to add value and mage a healthy return.

The second type, the OP is clearly in that category think that spending little, doing a bit of painting and DIY refurbing will add huge value.

Buyers can see right through that, and simply view the property as needing a full upgrade, the painted kitchen and garage door are still old, no value has been added - new bathroom fixtures well installed make sense, but a poor or partial installation with low quality fittings will just be seen as needing replacement.

So here, no value has been added, and a core selling point, a mature garden has been removed - DIY painting of the exterior is just going to be a complete nightmare to reverse requiring hours of labour and material.

The photos are terrible. Ask the estate agent to redo them or get in a professional EA photographer. Until I looked at the floor plan I couldn’t work out how many bathrooms you have. Also garden pics would be good.

Lovely!

Also garden pics would be good.

They really wouldn't!!!!

😂😂

I had a look on Rightmove for houses within 5 miles at the same price with the same number of bedrooms/detached and most have reduced the price. It might be the time of the year and it might be that people are staying put for various reasons. Have there been a lot of sold signs in the village whilst you have been selling, or have other properties been sticking on the market too ?
I personally think its a mistake to dig up the lawn and not replace it with anything, so the buyers will need to factor in the cost of that to their budget, plus the faff, especially if they have small children who they want to run free. The old garden was perfect for little ones, level and enclosed, a few tweaks here and there, like extending the patio and it would have been fine.
As I said earlier, I think you could do very little and make it more attractive.

I just look at this and think "poor little house"

Honestly the photos don't make sense to me and I don't really grasp the layout of the house. I think better photos would make a big difference.

🤣🤣🤣 laughing so much at your comments

Sorry OP but I think this is one of those threads that go down in mumsnet history

The inside is fabulous. I would power wash/tidy up the front. Give front of house a lick of paint

It's just not very nice, I'd want to gut it and start again so wouldn't want to pay renovated prices. Nothing goes, the kitchen looks dated and unfinished the bathrooms are not good and the top two bedrooms aren't great because of the heavily slopes ceilings so no space for furniture

And has what is known as a blank canvas for a back garden. Just well kept lawn. Enabling immediate use with new owners able to easily put their own stamp on it.

I don’t think there’s much curb appeal at the front of the house. Also I find the photos a bit confusing. I’m not sure what each of the rooms are and no photo of the garden that I could see?? Think it could do with updated photos and maybe adding some furniture in, so people have more of an idea how it could look. It looks like it’s had a lovely renovation and the photos possibly don’t do it justice.

This is so much better, too bland for my personal taste but a blank canvas, well kept ,no weird wide angle lens photos and the kitchen and bathrooms are much better

Yup not when it looks like this

It’s like a building site

Clearly hoping for some sort of rental situation based on the "low maintenance" added to the garden.

Actually horrified what some people think is good.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/55-sutton-park/blunsdon/swindon/sn26-7ba/65838182/

agree with other comments. It looks v desolate, missing so much furniture. Not a great flow - have to go into the living room to get to the stairs? I never think of ground floor bedrooms as totally counted bedrooms in a two storey house, so it’s a two bed with some other optional guest/study etc rooms.