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Tell me why this hasn’t sold?

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Bouncebacker · 23/07/2019 12:26

Hi all,

This is a relatives house. It needs to be sold as owners are divorcing and so far, it’s not. I have given my opinion on how the listing (and the house) could be changed but independent verification is needed. I’d like to know if you think what I think! Please let me know your thoughts. (Obviously dramatically reducing the price would help, but suggestions of price strategies would be good too). It really is a great house in a lovely village and will make a great home for the right people....

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-61442808.html

OP posts:

Graphista · 23/07/2019 16:33

Ok I'm sure I must be missing something...

No pictures, not on floor plan and no mention of a bathroom?!

"It’s expensive for the size" it's an expensive part of the country to live in, but yes in comparison to "nearby sold" prices it's excessive even so.

ScreamingValenta · 23/07/2019 16:40

It would be just what I wanted in terms of layout - I am childfree, so only need one bedroom plus a spare, but I like lots of downstairs space - often, to get the downstairs space you end up with 4/5 bedrooms which would be useless to me. Area is lovely, but it's massively, massively outside my price-range. If I was looking to move, I'd be searching for a 2 bed primarily.

Mildura · 23/07/2019 16:58

I think I'd have this instead:

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-71952553.html

Disfordarkchocolate · 23/07/2019 17:04

That is nicer @Mildura but still short of bedroom pictures. It doesn't make me curious it makes me think half renovated.

Mildura · 23/07/2019 17:10

Lack of bedroom pictures doesn't really bother me.

What do they really show, other than a bed?

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 23/07/2019 17:19

Lack of bedroom pictures doesn't really bother me.

It's not just the bedrooms. I want to be able to see a picture of all the rooms before I waste my time trekking all the way out to the property and discover the reason their was no picture is because the room is only half finished.

Even the cheapest of properties near me have pictures of all the rooms. You would think if they had nothing to hide then a picture of each room would be standard especially when trying to sell such an expensive property.

HillRunner · 23/07/2019 17:23

It's a two bed house for 800k. No amount of photos is going to disguise that, and families won't want to buy it.

As always, it comes down to price.

ScreamingValenta · 23/07/2019 17:25

Yes, I get annoyed when rooms are missed out. I don't understand it - if a room is so bad that it's going to put people off, surely it's a waste of everyone's time not to be upfront about it?

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 23/07/2019 17:26

Ahh I grew up close to there, my dad went to the high school in Chipping Norton.

It's beautiful, but a lot of houses around there are. It's massively overpriced.

Mildura · 23/07/2019 17:27

a picture of each room would be standard especially when trying to sell such an expensive property

I sell far more expensive homes than this and I wouldn't consider it essential to display a photograph of every single room.

As always, it comes down to price

Absolutely spot on. But the answer the property owner never wants to hear.

AnnaBegins · 23/07/2019 17:30

I'd like to see more bathroom pics as that shows me how much I'd need to spend if they need modernising.

For reference, we are not far from that area and spent £150k less on a 4 bed character property with much more outdoor space/outbuildings...

munemema · 23/07/2019 17:32

OP, it seems fairly conclusive that it's over priced for the area. Why do your relatives think it's worth so much more than similar properties in the area?

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 23/07/2019 17:32

I sell far more expensive homes than this and I wouldn't consider it essential to display a photograph of every single room.

A genuine question but why not? It's hardly going to hinder people coming to view it if you have 25 pictures instead of 20 so you can include a picture of all rooms. However it is clear from this thread that it would make some perspective buyers nervous of what wasn't being shown.

zafferana · 23/07/2019 17:37

It's the layout - that third bedroom downstairs renders it unsuitable for a family with young DC. No one wants their young DC 'alone' downstairs, while the rest of the family is upstairs at night, so it's basically a 2-bed house and that's only going to appeal to a family with one DC. The downstairs bedroom would have to be a guest room. And a 2-bed for £800k is a lot of money (lovely though it is).

wowfudge · 23/07/2019 18:08

The reason for not having a picture of every room is that the photos are to whet your appetite. This works when the spaces not shown in the photos are a bonus/samey but nice. Not showing photos of the bathroom or kitchen is usually a dead give away that they need redoing.

Disfordarkchocolate · 23/07/2019 18:12

Missing room pictures doesn't whet my appetite. Given a choice of viewings, I'd do the one I had seen enough to make a judgement on. It sounds like a buyers market in this area so you need to give me an incentive to view not reasons to look at something else.

HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 23/07/2019 18:27

Missing room pictures doesn't whet my appetite. Given a choice of viewings, I'd do the one I had seen enough to make a judgement on.

I doubt we are alone in sharing this view. I haven't the time nor patience to personally view each house so I'm afraid those that didn't show pictures of each part of the house would be at the bottom of my list.

SlowMoFuckingToes · 23/07/2019 18:29

Ask for the comparable sold properties that the agent used to come up with that price. I can guarantee you they will have more bedrooms/more sq. feet/bigger garden. It might be helpful to go over the list with your relatives because this is fairy-tale priced.

theunrivalledjoysofparenting · 23/07/2019 18:37

Not enough photos. I’d want to see all bathroom and bedroom pics.

Garden looks overlooked and an odd shape.

Layout of third ‘bedroom’ off study will put off a lot of people.

Some people won’t like the layout - mainly bungalow.

Seems like a lot of money for effectively a two-bed house...

WoofWoofMooWoof · 23/07/2019 18:44

I've just had a look, and where I live, which is a very expensive village, also in an area of outstanding natural beauty, you can get a 6-bedroom (5 doubles and a single) detached house with 3 en-suites and a double garage for that price.

For £500,000 you can get a very large 3-bedroom house with a massive garden.

Mammajay · 23/07/2019 18:48

It seems over priced

BlueSkiesLies · 23/07/2019 19:56

Omg I hadn’t even twigged it’s a bloody mezzanine bedroom. What are they thinking?! It’s essentially a one bed.

BlueSkiesLies · 23/07/2019 19:58

Oh, hang on, I think the actual bedroom has a wall before the void. Phew.

HillRunner · 24/07/2019 07:52

I haven't the time nor patience to personally view each house

Not a criticism, but I find this surprising. When we moved, we viewed every house that met our 'essential' criteria within iur budget in the area we wanted to move to. It's a huge purchase, and I wouldn't have wanted to make a decision without seeing all that was available.

It helped that there weren't many houses for sale in the area I wanted, but if I'm spending several hundred thousand pounds on a house I intend to make my home for at least several years, I wouldn't not view one just because there weren't many photos. You might miss a bargain!

BrokenWing · 24/07/2019 09:31

The kitchen appears to have only 6 cupboard units worth of worktop space. My new build tiny kitchen has 8.

Actually I missed something? Where is the sink in the kitchen?? It is all in the "utility"!! What a daft awkward layout a kitchen split over two rooms with cooking in one and water in the other. Another huge minus.

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