House not selling?!

[carolinep3]

We put our house on the market a few weeks ago, had a few viewings to start with but that has been it. we have had over 3,000 views on right move but no more viewings for a while now.
We have already reduced the price by 10k, and based on the properties of similar size etc in the area it seems to be priced right?
I had it valued by a few estate agents and it is now priced lower than a few valued.
I feel like the photo and advert is good? but just no-one seems to be interested.
I don't know what more i can do?

I agree with some other posters - lovely as it is, the dressing room needs to be turned back into a bedroom. Also market it as a three bedroom rather than four. Apart from that it's great. If you don't have any interest in another month, maybe consider dropping the price?

If a house isn’t selling it is always about the price. Paint the whole house in a neutral Colour. Declutter. Make the garden look nice, make some sort of effort with front of the house,plants flowers etc. Get rid of the dressing room. Market it as a 3 bedroom and drop the price. It will sell.

@Imchlibob That house isn't a direct comparison - there's a clear damp problem in one room (ceiling level) and is in a poor state of decoration throughout.

In your house OP, I agree it's a 3 bed. The loss of the garage for me is a deal breaker, but I have motorbikes. The built in wardrobe room is amazing for me, but is a bedroom less.

Where do you sleep? It's not clear. Baby's room is beautiful.

Back garden and driveway needs power washed and photos taken again.

The description needs rewriting as others have explained.

Also, Purple Bricks are one I avoid as I often find them slow to respond to contact and totally unrealistic on pricing.

I agree with thr poster who said the current dining room should be the lounge and the current lounge a bedroom. This would enable you to market it as a four bed if you turn the closet back into a bedroom.

No one will believe or want a bedroom downstairs next to the kitchen and a living room upstairs next to the bedrooms and away from the kitchen.

I think you've made the space work for how you live, but it's not a layout that would work for most people, especially if they have kids.

Echoing all other posters. That's a three bed house.

Thanks for people who offered useful answers, not so much to people who just wanted to state their personal opinion and slate my house.
There are 3 double bedrooms, the walk in wardorob is just standing wardrobe which will be removed when we move.
I have asked the estate agents about marketing as a 3 bedroom but they have advised against it at the moment, when we brought the house it was marketed as a 4 bedroom. We may consider this at a later date.
I am not going to re decorate my lounge as if we don’t make at least 350k we won’t be moving anywhere. May jazz up the garden a bit.

I think that's the issue, we all have immediately said this is a three bed. In reality I think it is a four bed. It's simply downstairs should be lounge and kitchen only and upstairs four beds. Two beds on each floor.

It is over priced though op, and the layout and floor plan, as you've seen from everyone's responses, is immediately misleading.

Your buyers are going to think it's a three bed also. Or if they realise it's a four bed, they will know the living room should be on the ground floor, probably where the kitchen now is, and what is currently a small dining room would have been originally a galley kitchen.

Now folks are faced with either having rhe living room upstairs and making it a three bed, or having a tiny living room downstairs.

It is what it is, but it will have to be priced accordingly.

I am not going to re decorate my lounge as if we don’t make at least 350k we won’t be moving anywhere. May jazz up the garden a bit.

Why OIEO then?!

You do understand that personal opinion is exactly what people will base their interest in your house on? Estate agents are full of shit, and I'd take their opinion with a massive pinch of salt.

You have a house that's not selling. Lots of people on here have told you their opinions on why that is. If you don't like the feedback, you need to consider taking the house off the market or making some changes as these are the kinds of things people are saying when they look at the advert!

OP I would remove the walk in wardrobe pic - a) it looks as if it's a room and b) you are taking it with you when you move.

Also if you need £350K in order to move anyway and aren't getting any viewings at £360K I think you need to be prepared to stay put until the market improves.

You could change estate agents but I agree with other pps whether your house was originally maketed as 4 bed isn't the issue here and it looks like a 3 bedder. Some agents market as 3/4 bedrooms giving buyers the option of how to use that ground floor room.

Nobody has slated it and if you didn't want opinions then why did you ask?

You want to know why your house isn't selling and we've told you why we think it isn't selling.

I think it's the layout. I'm assuming you've got the top floor as a master suite with a bedroom and the dressing room up there? Then the room with the cot is the middle floor?

I would take down the walk in wardrobe and move the cot into that room, I think most people with young babies would prefer them to be on the same floor, especially at an age where they wake frequently.

Then put the bed from the ground floor bedroom into the room on the middle floor.

Paint the lounge and then show the bedroom on the ground floor as a study/dining room.

Nobody skated your house. You posted, people with experience gave good advice. Advice clearly needed.

May as well take it off the market then.

It really isn't a 4 bed house though, there is just not enough non-bedroom living space. I'd consider buying it as a 3 bed, as I'd like to have a dining room.

If you want to sell, I'd seriously consider re-listing as a 3 bed. I think that is the main problem.

On a side note I can't believe how expensive houses are in Essex!

We moved to a 4 bed house when the kids were little

I wouldn't have the time and energy needed to paint the living room and sort out the garden.

That's what puts people off the time needed.

These things aren't expensive just time consuming

List as a 3 bed
Remodel the dressing room as a bedroom
Change downstairs room to a reception room
Take some pictures that don't make half the rooms look six inches wide
Dress the garden up

The pictures look like a mix of two different houses.

I agree with others, at the moment it's a 2-3 bed house with a let down garden.
I think you need to dress every room for its intended use. So if there is a 4th bedroom, show it! Take out the walk in wardrobe option and show it is a bedroom! And please do something about the garden... The inside looks lovely and cared for, but the outside space is sad and neglected. That would give me niggles about other key areas like bathroom and kitchen.
Unfortunately when selling a house you have to show the potential buyer how they can live in it...

I would take down the walk in wardrobe and move the cot into that room, I think most people with young babies would prefer them to be on the same floor, especially at an age where they wake frequently.

Then put the bed from the ground floor bedroom into the room on the middle floor.

Paint the lounge and then show the bedroom on the ground floor as a study/dining room.

This.

I agree with the othets, it looks like a perfectly nice house inside, but horrible from the outside, the garden is minging and looks claustrophobic. Personally I would rather have a garage than a fourth 'bedroom ' that isn't even a bedroom, and the photos have very obviously been taken with a distorting lenst

. But mainly it is the price - (and in excess of- is really offputting) after stamp duty etc, I'd be forking out the best part of 400k, and I really would want something better for my money.

It's the layout for sure.

Why is it a 4 bed? How is it a 4 bed? It's clearly a 3 bed max with dining room/study. People looking for a 4 bed will go elsewhere.

Get rid of the weeds out the front and make it look more inviting. And do the garden, it's in a bit of a state, sorry.
I love the walk in wardrobe

Yes to the garden being a little underwhelming too. The photos have also been taken to make it look bigger when from the outside it's clearly not going to be huge due to the width of the house.

If you're able to turf he back garden and paint the fence/shed a nice unifying colour I think that'd make the most of the space as it is a nice manageable size.

The photos aren't very flattering in terms of room height and I'm afraid the colour choices emphasise that further. If does come across as a fairly dark interior.

Yes, get the lovely dressing room remade as a bedroom, turf the lawn, add colourful potted plants front and back, and rewrite the description. Converted garage should be listed as 'fourth bedroom/dining room/study' or suchlike, then say it's a 3/4 bedroom. I don't know if colour puts people off, it wouldn't for me, but remove toys etc for pics. Can't comment on price as I don't know the area but if you're desperate to move then you would have to reduce it.

Would be put off by purple bricks as EA

Weed the front driveway & some plant pots with flowers

Paint sitting room a neutral colour cos it just is a colour that would have to go straight away cushions and lamp clash and/or change them

Clean the vent from extractor fan cos looks filthy, perhaps see if you can box in up to the ceiling in kitchen

Box in pipes under sink in toilet

Put new turf in garden

And some planters with flowers

If you get sun in garden then retake photo to show it isn't dark and chilly to sit in main part of garden

The house does have potential, although don't like townhouses no idea on price for area

Good luck