Property not selling and not getting any offer

[movingTolondon2018]

Hi,
It has becoming little furstated now and thought if someone please cam advise or help me because I cannot figure out the issue and tried chaning the agents as well.
I am trying to sell my property and it is exactly as per the market rate but now, it has been 6 months and only one buyer offered who later pulled out. It is really a nice property and we always leave it completely clean on the viewing day but still no luck.
Can anyone please help or suggest something.

Thanks,
Liss

Can you post a link?

Can you post a link?

It’s a buyer’s market. It’s orobably overpriced.

Are you comfortable posting the Rightmove link? WIthout that it is very difficult for anyone to help you.
All I would say is if house is genuinely ok then it’s price.

I can definitely offer sympathy! We have had 2 viewings in 3 months and no offers. We have dropped the price by £50,000 in total during that time. It's incredibly frustrating. We're in East London. The estate agents said that the market is virtually dead and their viewings are down 80% on what they usually are at this time of year

May be Brexit uncertainty, threat of an election..... Who knows?! But I feel your pain

Sorry, I forgot to add. Here is the link
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55343907.html

I don't know the Basingstoke housing market at all but I would say that the photos could benefit from there being a bit more colour as there's a lot of grey.
I'd look to get a rug with some colour on in the sitting room and maybe a big bright vase of flowers for the mantle piece. Maybe a nice fruit bowl filled with different fruits for the kitchen work surface.
I think you could buy a few potter plants/small trees for the back garden . I also would get some.furniture in the other bedrooms as they look sparse and it's hard to tell their size.
it's a lovely house but think it just needs to.look a bit more homely

It is a nice house but the majority of the photos are very monochrome - I agree you need some colour.
Pictures 11 and 12 - - it's really hard to gauge what the rooms are for - with so little furniture I can't immediately see if a single bed would fit, or just that desk, or what. The curtains are a bit untidy.
And the garden is pretty dull - can you get some cheap pots and plants and make it look more interesting? Or maybe move your garden furniture onto the grass to break it up a bit?
Kitchen is great but the angle of the photo makes it look longer and thinner than it probably is.

Lovely house. But you have taken everything personal out of it and so it doesn't look like a home.

First time buyers are buying a lifestyle. For example, the double bedroom looks like a student let. You need longer, more sumptous curtains, the bed needs to be more inviting. A few more pictures on the walls.

Pot plants in the garden, put a few things on kitchen worksurfaces.

Look through other listings, compare them to yours. You need to be critcal of your own house in a business sense. Hard I know!

I would get some colouful cushions for sitting room and get rid of the weird rug by front door. In the din8ng bit I’d change the chairs to something a bit more modern and put bright flowers/pot plant on table, in kitchen I’d put some herbs in pots on windowsill.
Upstairs needs some furniture in the rooms, have you moved out because it looks very strange?
Garden, some bedding plants along the side to add colour and a couple of big plant pots on patio and at the end of the garden to add some interest and a bit of height to the garden.

In addition to what's already been said regarding personal effects and beds in bedrooms (people have no imagination...) to make it a bit more inviting, I would add that the location of the bathroom is quite an issue. Downstairs and through at least 3 additional doors? In my head it becomes a 2-bed house with a bathroom relocation cost to allow for. What are other local houses like in this respect? I know that nearly all houses around here have moved their bathrooms now.

The dining room isn't staged as a dining room - what are those filing cabinets in the corner? And can you move the table to the middle of the room?

I think this is one of the problems with the grey trend - Rightmove photos look like they're black and white.

I don't know what's going on in the smaller bedrooms - again, can you stage these with beds? Get a cheap single and use it for both rooms for the photos.

And you need mirrors, pictures and plants to soften it up. Looks a bit rental.

Your estate agent should visit everything on the market in your neighborhood that's in your price range to see what you're competing against. Buyers typically know much more about the current market than sellers because they've been spending a lot of time looking at what's on offer, which puts sellers at a disadvantage.

The house is lovely, by the way.

Yep for me it’s the bathroom that’s the issue

This is similar but has been staged better

It does look priced correctly and it seems from the other terraces recently sold the bathroom on the ground floor is the norm.

The only thing I can say is also the lack of colour. It is very grey so not very inviting and the garden also lacks colour. Two of the bedrooms seem not to be presented as such, but the floor plans says they are big enough.

I'd present them as bedrooms, add some colour in the form of soft furnishings, pics on the walls to brighten them up, some pot plants to add more colour and then some plants outside to brighten the garden.

It looks more functional right now than a warm inviting family home and it could be putting people off.

Your estate agent should visit everything on the market in your neighborhood that's in your price range to see what you're competing against

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Erm what??? As if an estate agent is going to do that !

I agree, that one is beautifully staged. That is what you should be aiming for.

That said, the market is shit.

Cameron has a lot to answer for.''Twat'

Erm what??? As if an estate agent is going to do that !

Mine has, all three times I've sold a property with her. Don't yours get paid on commission?

Beds in the bedrooms!!

OMG, £280k for a terrace and they pitch that at a first time buyer?
No wonder youngsters can't get on the property ladder.

Have you had any viewings, apart from the people who offered?
If not, I'd say over priced. Buyers will only come looking if they think it looks worth the money.

It looks like it has plenty of potential, so you could highlight this in the particulars eg potential to extend the kitchen into the side return and create a master suite in the loft. For things you could do now yourself, maybe think about redoing the bathroom, since people like a smarter bathroom these days.

@MissConductUS

I'm not on the market. I work for an estate agent. And absolutely no way would they view properties OTM with other agents. Check out on rightmove...absolutely....that gets checked twice a day to see what's been uploaded. But physically view , no way. All the agents know each other anyway so you would look a complete dick

Batty don't you represent buyers as well as sellers?

Thanks everyone and in regards to the downstairs bath, most of the properties on the road (some sold already) have same structure as ours. I agree with you about bringing some colours and making it more homely.
@twoheaped: had few viewings but only one put the offer.
@MissConductUS: our agent (old and two new) did not suggest anything or offer any service to do this.

What is your view about hiring professional to bring the homely feeling and bit more colour into the property.

Thanks,
Liss