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

Things that might help... remove the weeds, get some nice plants and flowers outside and in. Furnish the empty rooms (FB Marketplace). Some curtains wouldn't go a miss to create a cosy atmosphere & kitchen cupboards would look better painted cream/white with more attractive handles. You can get cupboard paint and a roller for under £20. Small upgrades go a long way.

I’m having one in my next house - I love them

Honestly. It looks like an attempt to ‘flip’. Most of the interior renovation looks pretty cheap. The kitchen looks like a bad paint job. And the horrid black paint job on the exterior - terrible. Totally out of keeping with the building and its surrounds.

Even the inside, which was admittedly very dated, looked more appealing because people could easily see where to put their own stamp on it. Now they will still have to do that - on something which has been newly done.

I don't think the photos are very flattering because it looks like a house that a lot of people would like. There aren't any outside photos which would make people think the garden is either tiny or not well maintained.
It might give people more perspective if there was more furniture in some of the rooms.
I know it's a faff and people should have some imagination, but most really don't.

Totally agree. It’s a very difficult market almost everywhere.
If you genuinely need to sell, you have to put in some effort to create the very best kerb appeal that you can.
Get rid of all the weeds front and back. Put a couple of tubs of flowers by the front of the house.
You can’t change the front of your house, but you need to make it look like someone is proud of it.
At the moment there will be viewers that wouldn’t look further than the first photo…

Have a look at the street view at the bottom of the listing- it looks like a different road

I really want pale blue, or pale yellow.

Lawn has been taken up and covered so buyer can have option of gravel/astro for ease which agents say is the main preference these days.

True, but there's room for two or three cars in the original. Or one in the garage and two tucked outside to the right.

And that semicircular driveway gave it real character.

There seem to be a disproportionate amount of photos of the bathrooms. 🤣 Photo 2 is just odd. It looks like a room with 2 bathrooms off it.
It's also looks very dreary.
It gives off a "functional" vibe rather than a "home vibe". Perhaps it needs dressing? Keep the downstairs bedrooms as bedrooms on the listing because sone people will want that but dress them as an office and play room.

I think it looked nicer before 😬

So it doesn’t have any garden at all, just a driveway and a yard?

How do you get in? Where is the front door, why no pictures?
The untidy weeds in the picture make it look like its on an abandoned industrial estate.
Where are the pictures of the utility and outside space which for a 4 bed family home is important.
Why no furniture? Can it not fit in? Where does it go and how can it be configured?
Where is space for wardrobes and drawers in the bedrooms? Is there any space at all?

I had a similar experience - the unexpected garden in the back instead of concrete was what sealed the deal.

Christ.

Are you on a wind up or something?

Oh OP 😭

It looks like an office from the outside. The grey/monochrome theme seems very dated already. The house looks too clinical and unloved.

I think you need a new EA.

Two things that put me off straight away - I want a garden with actual grass and plants not a plastic gravel cat poo trap

I'm not sure that's the case. Many people don't like astro for environmental reasons.
What's the target market do you think?

Are you playing us OP? That's a family home and you've gravelled or paved over a mature garden. You may need shooting with the idiot EA who advised you.

I would agree.

No, it looks like a secure halfway house facility for ex cons.

With the first EA, it was mentioned as off putting by multiple viewers