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

Lovely pic but what about the black tarmac blob

Ive read through a lot of the comments and had expected them to be so much worse, and think by and large comments not that bad, and Op had asked for opinions. Although i may missed some awful comments maybe

I think 1960s style of houses have dated the most, and when they are renovated (more than a lick of paint and ripping up of established planting). It costs a lot of money to modernise the external of 60 and 70s houses so as to completely re-imagine the property)

I think the property, pre renovation might have appealed to a young family, who might have just wanted to do an easy modernisation to live in, whilst kids are young

I'd have liked the house, stripped back to how it might have looked when built and pit some lovely Danish furniture in it (and im not a fan of domer/Dormy houses really (grew up in one in a new town)

Was it bought to flip or to live in i wonder and perhaps the plan just hasn't worked

Hope you manage to sell, all the same

Just saw the zoopla photos from before you bought it now. Sorry but you have really destroyed that garden. The old listing having 3 photos of it must have surely indicated that this was a selling point.

Think the last estate agent told you the garden is an issue as a way of justifying why it hadn't sold, when really it was because it was so over priced by them.

The kitchen before, I could have lived with until further down the line, now I would be desperate to get rid.

Before I would see, 20k max bathrooms. 10k max kitchen, 10k max for the rest. Great, get it to my choice all in at less than 400k.

Now, your choices and taste has increased the asking price, so 400k, still need a kitchen max 10k, then the garden restoring it back to what it was on top, which I couldn't be arsed with. Wouldn't buy, but if I were to buy it would be at 20k less than your asking price

Looking for instant and cheap refresh not big solutions! You could probs cover with a semi circle of astroturf

4 bedroom = family home
family home = kids
kids = lawn

Your estate agent is not helping!

I swear the last few pages she's got a couple of friends on to say how much they love it!

that might get people through the door but its not going to make it sell without a stonking reduction

The upstairs bedrooms have very little full head height- the second one especially, does it even have enough to be called a bedroom from a legal perspective?

My instant reaction was that it felt cold and lacked character. Nothing jumps out at me

Good work on the pic.

The paintwork would cost quite a lot though and they already may be looking at loss.

Lovely pic but what about the black tarmac blob

I just wonder what the point of getting rid of such small amount of greenery was?

Does it really save on maintenance??!!

Could at least have put bricks in!

I think that that shows that it has been done thoughtlessly & on the cheap.

I agree this looks so much more inviting, but still would need the tarmac blob lifted

Why would anyone replace that plant bed with black tarmac? It's so jarring. Odd decision.

This makes the front so much better. Add the grass back in at the back, new kitchen and it's already a massive improvement.

You destroyed the garden and painted it with black and grey. The bathroom with the grubby grouting is particularly bad.

Property history - Sutton Park, Blunsdon, Swindon, Wiltshire SN26 - Marketed for sale in Oct 2023

Seriously @Houseadvice26 are you saying this garden was off-putting?

I despair. What a shame.

Anyway I echo others’ advice; weed the drive, put some plants out in pots, stage the rooms with sofa and dining table in the reception, beds int he bedrooms. Or maybe dress one as a study.

Issues you can do nothing about:

• Lounge-diner instead of kitchen you can eat in
• Downstairs bedrooms
• Lack of storage
• One upstairs room with what looks like no headroom
• Concrete front and back garden

You may have to take a big hit in the price tbh. Sorry but I wouldn't call this an extensive renovation – the kitchen is the same and the room layout has not been updated either.

ok. So no money being spent on paintwork. Stick with OPs modern aesthetic. A bit of trellis, plants in pots and if budget allows, a circle of astroturf.... still massively improved kerb appeal.

haha forgot to include pic

pic didn't post

Thanks
Ive Gone a bit more and have no idea why ChatGPT went huge with the bushes on the far left.
hayho.

( Hope you don’t mind I used your image as a base only it is lovely )
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The clash between the patterned tiles on the bathroom floor and the "grid" pattern the wall tiles have created is really not pleasant to look at.

FYI, when I was buying a couple of years ago, I would have negotiated down the price of anything withan AstroTurfed garden to cover the cost of removing it, as that would be getting done pretty much as soon as the kettle was unpacked. I think you need a new estate agent

Haha, you wouldn't get into the garage. 😆 Apart from that it looks quite nice there.

Mine too....

We had a house with two upstairs bedrooms, one of which was ensuite.

Downstairs was a kitchen, two further bathrooms and six other rooms. We used the two upstairs bedrooms for that purpose, the rest were living room, dining room, office, music room, book room and guest room with futon.

Our buyers had three DC and went on to have three more. They used four of the ground floor rooms as bedrooms in addition to the two upstairs.