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Please look at my house and give me your opinion

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Jellyshoeshurtmyfeet · 24/10/2016 21:21

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62009282.html

Hi,
Our house has been for sale for about 5 weeks or so now and we have had one viewing. Please have a look and let me know what might be the problem. TIA.

OP posts:
Wolpertinger · 24/10/2016 22:14

It's a lovely house but your photos and blurb don't help you.

The photos of the sitting room/dining room show the whole room and make it look spacious and beautifully styled but in an approachable way you can imagine yourself living in.

However that's where it stops - kitchen photo is nice but half if is missing. Can you fit a table in there or not? How big a table? Could you call it a kitchen diner?

And so on - master is nie, photo doesn't show your built in wardrobes. En-suite is missing. Teen room is styled to make it look like a narrow corridor. Photographer has mysteriously managed to make the bathroom sink bigger than the bath - suspect your family bathroom is actually reasonably sized but photo is rubbish.

Finally garden - photo again makes it look tiny, you get no sense of how big it really is, it seems unloved and could easily be styled up to look family friendly or inside-outside.

Rubbishy blurb needs to go in favour of something that talks about each room and its dimensions in positive but sensible language.

I love your yellow chair and highlights!

Wdigin2this · 24/10/2016 22:14

Nothing wrong with your house apart from only one bathroom, and not much garden......it's not been on sale long, give it a chance!

spiderbabymum · 24/10/2016 22:16

Love the decor ......sitting room is beautiful

Is it just a numbers game as in price is quite high compared to what most families can afford

So it's just a matter of waiting

If it was mine I would agree with poster above :stage the garden

Try to tie in the garden style with the interior

grumpymcgrumpypants · 24/10/2016 22:16

Put a single bed and a wardrobe in the 4th bedroom, if you can, and take a picture.

I would be put off by the grey, especially in the kitchen. Because it's everywhere, it would put me off more than knowing there is just one grey room to deal with.

As people have said, the "garden" would put me off, too.

JoJoSM2 · 24/10/2016 22:16

It's a nicely presented house and it's got an ensuite. If you're not even getting viewings then perhaps price is an issue? (I don't know the area so just a suggestion). Otherwise, it's a family house but families might get put off by the outside space. Personally, if I needed that many bedrooms, I could be worried as one is very long and narrow (the one with the sofa) and the little one is mega tiny - more or a study really.

taytopotato · 24/10/2016 22:17

House was £280,000 in June 2015 and now it's priced £390,000???????

house

This house near you sold for less price and bigger space
house near yours

Puremince · 24/10/2016 22:18

Your kitchen looks great, but there's only one photo, showing half of it. You need a second photo of your kitchen. Plus a photo of the en-suite, and the fourth bedroom. Plus a photo of the back of the property, taken from the foot of the garden.

grumpymcgrumpypants · 24/10/2016 22:19

And it looks overpriced. Is this not the very same house, for £280,000 last June.

House prices may be rallying a bit, but not that much!

I would wonder why, if it sold in June, it's up for sale again with very similar pictures?

This doesn't make sense?

Kokapetl · 24/10/2016 22:20

Looks nice (although I would also be put off because I like a big garden) but as a buyer I always click on other properties sold nearby and so know was sold for £280,000 last year. Perhaps the ad needs to emphasise (tastefully!) that a lot has been spent on doing it up since then? The price is well above what other nearby properties have sold for which would worry me as a buyer.

The problem is that unless you've added rooms or completely overhauled a wreck of a house it's hard to justify that kind of price increase. You may have paid out that much for new kitchen and bathrooms but these (the bathroom especially) might not be to a potential buyer's taste so that would be seen as a negative, people won't want to pay for a bathroom twice.

Evilstepmum01 · 24/10/2016 22:20

I think your house is lovely!

Only thing I noticed is that every room is grey. Or grey-blue. Not my fave colour and rather depressing. Just an observation (i like brighter colours or hints of!).

The garden has no furniture or swings or bbq or anything to show the outdoor lifestyle it can offer.
Also, less is more. I would take out some of the furniture-the chairs in the living room?

Grin
QueenLizIII · 24/10/2016 22:21

I dont like the bathroom but nowt you can do about that.

The tiny box room. Can you take the furniture out and put a single bed only or a desk in it and take another photo. That will make it look bigger than it is. It looks tiny with all that stuff in it.

No idea as to the price as I live in London and that looks so cheap.

FrameyMcFrame · 24/10/2016 22:21

I'd rip the paving out and turf the space. Would cost 200 quid.
But I think the price is too high really. I'd imagine 300k would be a bit more realistic.

QueenLizIII · 24/10/2016 22:23

Just saw the latest comments. You've put the price up £100k since since you bought it a year ago?!

There is your problem

sohackedoff · 24/10/2016 22:24

Front garden looks a bit wild. Assume drive and path just plain ugly concrete? Don't like the bright red tiles to front elevation. Prefer neighbour's.

Living room nice. Don't like arch. Do you have to carry food through hall to get to dining room. Don't like dining table and chairs, bit orange. Also seems a bit crowded. Lose the garage flowers?

Bathroom is very old fashioned. Why no photo of ensuite?

Agree, photo of last bedroom makes it look shabby and overcrowded. Is that a double bed in there?

Not keen on NWA picture either.

Back yard (it's not really a garden) seems out of keeping.

Love your kitchen but white goods stand out like sore thumb.

Definitely needs more photos.

Jesmond is lovely though.

Good luck !

Rainbunny · 24/10/2016 22:24

I actually prefer no grass but I would definitely add some potted plants/trees etc... if you have the ability to do that, maybe add a few pieces of nice outdoor lounging furniture. I think there are places that rent out furniture etc... to "stage" houses for photos, you should ask your real estate agent about it. I would also ask your real estate agent for their opinion on things you could do to make the house more sellable - it's their area of expertise after all!

Bogeyface · 24/10/2016 22:24

I would lose the yellow chair in the lounge, as much as I love it (and I do!) it makes it look a bit crowded.

I would clear the walls in Yoda's room, they look very cluttered over that fireplace.

itsbetterthanabox · 24/10/2016 22:25

I like it a lot. The bathroom is the best bit imo!
Having a box room wouldn't put me off.
Is it the price? I thought that part of the county was much cheaper? Seems a lot.

Etak15 · 24/10/2016 22:26

Yep defo is the price that is off putting - previous sold price is the first thing I looked at in your ad - and did when we were looking for our house! i quite sure that house prices haven't gone up by 25% since last year! - in fact not sure if they've gone up at all? (is that right - sorry I'm shit at maths!)
House is nice, and nicely presented - but agree with pp a with a big family house I would be looking for a big family garden.

SwedishEdith · 24/10/2016 22:26

How come it's got the same furniture etc if it actually sold last year?

WhyRude · 24/10/2016 22:26

That's quite the price increase 😂

I don't think there is anything wrong with the listing - things like the EAs silly description won't stop people viewing the house.

I think the price compared to the previous price is the problem

Longdistance · 24/10/2016 22:27

I work within an EA, so here's my opinion...

  • Remove the tub chair from the dining room.
  • agree with others about the sofa in the room, and look at borrowing a single.
  • The kitchen is lovely, but the angle the photo is shot at is not.
  • I'd say the photo of the bathroom is not good enough.
  • as for the garden bring paved, may need lawn area if it fits, if not rejig it with dame planters.
Just going to scrutinise the photos again, just in case I missed anything...
taytopotato · 24/10/2016 22:28

grumpymcgrumpypants same decor because it was previously listed in September 2016. Perhaps a different agent (judging from the angle of the shots)

Plus rightmove will have pictures of the updated decor of the house everytime it gets sold/listed.

MohammedLover · 24/10/2016 22:30

Would a circular patch of astroturf ?sp help to soften the look of the garden a bit, you could even take it with you!
There is loads of furniture in most of the rooms...if you would like me to take the yellow chair out of the equation, just to help! :)
Pot plants are your friend.
Could you stretch to replace or paint the green tiles?

Boogers · 24/10/2016 22:30

Woah, that's a very yellow chair! It looks cosy to sit in and probably goes very well in the actual room but on the photos your eye is drawn immediately to that and the yellow cushions and not to the main features. Jesmond is a very desirable area and that house shouldn't take so long to sell. I can't see any major issues so maybe it's the price, as others have pointed out?

ohtheholidays · 24/10/2016 22:31

I'd remove the yellow chair,it makes the room look smaller and the picture you have facing from your window towards the yellow chair and your dining room makes the room look bigger than the previous picture of the same room.
I'd tell your estate agent you want another better picture of your lovely kitchen and of the dining room.

The bedroom in picture 7 I'd remove the pictures and the clock that you have on the chimney breast and I'd place one nice large picture there instead and I'd take down the picture near the curtains and I'd take what's on the bed off(not sure if it's a toy)and I'd remove the stuff from under the bed.

I'd also take down the storage boxes ontop of the wardrobe otherwise it can look like the rooms struggling for storage space.
You don't need to do anything major in that room it just needs to be dressed.

Picture 8 the garden it looks okay it's nice and tidy but it looks a bit sparce,a nice clematis or Jasmine growing up against the wall at the back and I'd have something near the fence on the left handside.

People tend to sell Gardens as an extra room now,so again just like the bedroom it just needs a bit of dressing.

With the bathroom is there supposed to be something in the blank space?near the sink?apart from that I'd put a different coloured towel in there something that goes with the colour of the bathroom and I'd get a picture from a different angle,buyers will want to be able to see what else is in the bathroom when they're looking online.

Picture 10 the room looks a bit unloved and I can't see any storage.

I think one of the biggest problems is the pictures,I couldn't see any of your 4th bedroom and there's not a great picture of what I presume is the master bedroom.