Please help me sell my house

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Please help, obvious name change and posted in chat too.

Our house sale fell through 7 months ago and the house has been sat on the market since. I’ve lost my new build twice now!! And I just want an offer we have dropped 15k off the price and we can’t go much lower.

Please help me,

What do I need to change? We are having some more photos done this weekend and I need some ideas?

Here is the link

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-72932222.html

Here is a list of things I have changed which differ from the photos:

Garden:

1. Painted all the fences so they match.
2. Taken the hot tub down. Put the table out.
3. Given the decking a sand and re paint.

Lounge/dining:

1. Re painted the walls and glossed
2. Moved pictures.
3. I now have a smaller table and chairs (apparently the old one was too dark)
4. Given the rug a good clean.

Main bathroom:

Is now white.

Butterfly room:

All the junk under the bed is gone.

Master bedroom and grey room:

Moved all the stuff from under the bed.

Anything else??? I’m getting desperate now

There isn’t a photo of the front door?
You have a photo of your lovely little one on the living room wall( you could swap (for a landscape pic? ) to depersonalise?
You could remove the stair gate?
It looked really nice to me. That’s all I could see at all..

If you have changed things then you need to get new photos up to show it off

You don’t seem to any storage. No wardrobes or chest of drawers. Where are they?

Remove the clutter form the kitchen stuff on top of the fridge. Remove the foot puff/table from the living room.

I don’t really rate the photos. Maybe it is time to change estate agents.

House looks lovely OP!
May be with arranging an open viewing day if possible?

Where can you eat? I can see dining chairs from the hall photo but nowhere else.

Get rid of the shampoo bottles in the shower.

Can't see all the bedrooms.

It's a nice house though.

I’ve taken the photos of my son down, and put a random flower pic up.

We have a lounge dining room so the table is at the opposite end, I’ve got a new table and chairs to make the room look lighter.

We have built in wardrobes - and all my clothes are in the grey room in the white units. The butterfly room a chest.

All the bit in the shower have been moved.

What a lovely house, really nicely presented. I don't think you can do any more other than keep it as you have, nice and clean, grass cut etc. Some people dislike stairs, or want more downstairs/living space to bedroom ratio, you're not going to appeal to everyone, but I love it and I think it's appeal is really good. Is the price right? It'd be a bargain round here, but I don't know about your area, that's the only thing I can think of really.

Aggree with pp's that you should do new photos if you have redecorated.

Glad the acid green bathroom is now white.

White on that pink wall on the landing/hall? (photo 4)
The black damask patterned wallpaper in the bedroom in photo 8 looks a bit dated now, would consider removing that.

I don't know the area but £250k seems quite a lot for a terrace, and the kitchen looks quite small for a modern 4 bed. Is there space to extend the kitchen if people wanted to? If there is it should perhaps be in the blurb, with the caveat of no planning permission. Have any neighbours extended downstairs?

It probably comes down to price. You are priced lower than others that havent sold (which is irrelevant really)
There are 2 close by under offer at 229995 and 235000.
I dont think there is anything wrong with the house but if you want a sale you may need to reduce

You need new photos to reflect the changes you have made. A photo of the front should be first. Get the agent to say something other than 'deceptively spacious'. They mean 'bigger than you think'. What they have stated means the opposite. But that's not why it's not selling.

Three things come to mind: 1. it has a lounge diner - more people want a kitchen diner; 2. the fact it's curved won't appeal to everyone (the floorplan doesn't show the curve); and 3. there are lots of newish houses for sale in the area and if they are still being built, a lot of people will choose a new build rather than a secondhand, nearly new house.

Your sofa is huge and it looks as though the drawers next to it can't be opened. It may be a big room, but that kind of thing makes people think it's cramped.

If you're not getting viewings then the issue is price I'm afraid.

If you're after a new build is part ex not an option for you?

I think it looks too much like a show home. Too depersonalised. I couldn't imagine living in the house. It's very bare.

Agree that there should be a photo of the front of the house - and updated photos if you have changed things. Otherwise there is nothing inherently wrong with it............ so it must be price, sorry.

I would take down the stair gate for the photos at least. It’s a gorgeous house op. Good luck with your move.

We lost our home change as you only have 30 days to sell, so we lost the new build, the part ex is something we may look at again but I’m certain they do the 30 days too.

The one 2 doors over sold for 255k which was a part ex.

I don't know the area and there's obviously a market for town houses but would you get more realistic buyers if you set it up as a 3 bed with a 2nd reception room? I don't know the answer to that and it's just a suggestion but you have a mismatched upstairs / downstairs. The downstairs is small for a 4 bed, but if you marketed it as a 3 bed + 2 reception rooms, it might appeal to more potential buyers.

We have had 5 views with this estate agent, the feedback has been rather unhelpful. They wanted a house nearer the motorway was one 🙄

any builders doing part exchange?

Needs pic of front of house. The fact that there isn't one suggests the front looks grim.

Get your updated photos on RightMove.

Good luck.

Def take down the stair gate as it drew my eye immediately.

Also agree to remove everything from on top of the fridge and in shower tray

The towel on top of the toilet just seems a bit unhygienic to me and v staged rather than 'naturally' staged iyswim.

New photos and one of the front of the house and hopefully that will attract new viewings

Can't comment on the price as I'm in London so to me that price for a 4 bed seems like a total steal!!

And good luck!

Fab thank you I have a list to be getting on with.

I think we will try again with new photos then if that doesn’t work take it off the market for a bit.

If you are not willing to drop the price, there is not much more you can do really, except wait however long it takes for someone to come along who both wants it and can afford it. If you don't think Rightmove is reaching enough potential buyers, perhaps you should think about taking out private adverts elsewhere that would reach a wider audience.

The things I noticed were... towels in the toilets. Why? Stair gate has to go. Other than that you need a front photo. Good luck.

Agree that ‘deceptively spacious’ sounds negative - ie it’s less poky than you imagine. Just plain ‘spacious’ better.

Lounge has vast sofas but not much space for anything else - maybe take a sofa out?