Opinions wanted on listing

[afrikat]

We've been on for a month, dropped the price once and not a single viewing. We went on a couple of years ago at a slightly higher price than our current one and had at least a dozen viewings in the first month.

Any ideas??
www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/62124933

Lovely house, but property market is very slow atm (much slower than 2 years ago, at least in lots of parts of the UK). Do you know the average listing time for properties in your area for 2019? Don't think it's anything to do with the listing itself because the pictures all look good and there is detailed information in the other sections. Hang in there!

Perpahs the market has gone a bit dead and there's little going on? Or the price is still too high? Prices have fallen in some areas (I don't know about yours, it's just an idea).

Other than that, I don't think there's anything wrong with the listing to the point of putting buyers off even booking a viewing. It's a pretty town house and if someone is looking for a townhouse in the area, I'm sure they'll be happy to have a look.

Your house is beautifully decorated and the photographs are great. I can't comment on price, but my reservation is that I don't think open plan works well for families with children older than toddlers, if there aren't other spaces to convene. Open plan has been trendy for a while but I just don't think many British houses have the space for it, this would work for me if it had a separate living room. So it might just be you've got a narrower field of potential buyers. The listing is great though, as with anything it'll probably come down to price.

If I am totally honest, the kitchen and living area are about the same as our 2 bed flats in London. You have 4 beds, but not much living space. So, maybe price.

Townhouses can be tricky to sell. Given the choice between a 2 storey house and a townhouse, most people would pick the 2 storey house. In a slow market, that is going to limit you.

It's beautiful inside but I wouldn't view as I don't like townhouses, I don't like open plan and your garden is too small.

I can only assume the price is the problem unless there is something nearby like a sewerage works etc

Most townhouses with a layout like yours that i’ve seen have been few I ed as three bedrooms, with one of the first floor rooms being used as a sitting room. As pp’s said, it’s beautifully presented, but limited living space for four bedrooms.

I think psychologically people like to think they have got a good deal by not paying the full asking price. By making it OIEO maybe you are missing out on some people who would otherwise be interested.

It seems to be a Tardis house - much bigger than it looks ('deceptively spacious' in estate agent parlance). I wonder if the photo of the frontage might be better zoomed in a bit and cropped because it isn't clear where your house starts and finishes.

It's beautifully presented. I can't comment on the price because I know nothing about Milton Keynes.

I think it’s presented very well.

I’d take off the photo showing the steps into your garden. That would put me of viewing as your garden is overlooked as your neighbour climbs down their adjacent steps. It may look less intrusive in real life.

It's beautiful inside. I appreciate that you can't do anything about it, but that back access up the steps looks very unattractive. I think OIEO always seems dictatorial, maybe you should amend it to 'guide price'. You need to aim for maximum flexibility because as others have said, it's a slow market. Personally I think properties that are reduced can be off-putting - my daughter was saying that only yesterday. Having said that however it now looks pretty competitive with other townhouse type properties in MK. Hope you get some viewing soon, it's nerve-wracking waiting.

Nothing ostensibly wrong. Must be the price.

I don't think there's anything wrong with it. The price seems in line with other similar properties in the area. However there are an awful lot of nice townhouses at a same/similar price. I think its a combination of lots of competition and a slow market.
Fingers crossed you get some viewings soon.

Thanks all. Will have another think about the price and look at the pics people have commented on. Fingers crossed we get some interest soon we've found a great house to move to 🙈

Town houses are only viable for a small percentage of people, so you immediately exclude about 95% of buyers I'm afraid.

A few things which stand out to me are:

The kitchen cupboards - the top cupboards don't look as if they match the bottom ones.

The living space is too small for the size of the house - the living room/dining area/kitchen looks cramped. Could you put the dining table in the garden room to free up some space in the living room?

We have a townhouse (and love it) but as a PP mentioned they are not suitable or practical for all families.

I also agree with another PP who commented on the unusual layout of your townhouse. Our home has the kitchen, dining room and utility room on the bottom floor; living room, master bedroom and bathroom on the middle floor and then 3 bedrooms and a family bathroom on the top floor. Our children are teenagers so they have the entire top floor to themselves (and I don't have to look at all their clutter on a regular basis!) but I would not have fancied the idea of this house if they were babies/toddlers - all that climbing up and down stairs in the middle of the night would have driven me to distraction.

Your home is decorated tastefully so the issue is not that people are worried about having to spend a fortune to correct bad decor. Generally, the problem is usually the price - a house (regardless of what an estate agent tells you) is only truly worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.