Please help me sell this house

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We've been on the market for 6 weeks, plenty of viewings, even second but no offers as of yet.

I am therefore donning my hard hat and asking you wise mumsnetter for feedback on the house.

Link is here
I found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/82802135

Thank you!

Lovely house. Personally I would find the bedrooms fine for a family g 4 beds, but would struggle with family life with maybe 3 children in the open plan living area. Also, there’s no direct exit to outside from the kitchen other than through the lounge.
Also, the balcony is a bit redundant and public as your looking over the street.
Sorry to sound negative.

Sorry but I think it might be price! One nearby sold in January for £76k less than your asking price. Although, I can't see the condition of that property and yours looks lovely so there might be some room for price increase based on that, but when a house that looks that nice doesn't sell it's always usually due to price.

It's a funny sort of house, 4 beds suggests family, but no playroom / utility suggests everyone in a big noisy space with no escape. I think it'll appeal to a very limited audience sorry OP.

Checking the nearby sold prices and none have photos. But if they are similar to yours you are overpriced by some way.
The house itself looks fine and clean.

Where do you eat?, its not clear there is a defined dining space , i would get a photo of this or rearrange furniture to clearly delineate a dining area.

The house is a bit top heavy, for four bedrooms i would want better downstairs space/arrangement , and so it would be about comparing other four bedrooms locally and what they offer/price. If other4 beds offer better living space arrangement then i would go for them if priced similarly or less

Thanks all! Please don't apologise, I asked for honest feedback and it matches feedback from viewers.

To answer some questions. The nearby sold house prices were for 2 bedroom houses which explains the 69k difference.

Yes, the downstairs is small and it does have a separate dining area. If you compare comparable houses, the combined square footage is the same as our open plan area so do you think putting a partition wall with doors in (to keep open planned when entertaining) would help to cut off the areas a little?

Without wishing to be rude, I think the outside is very ugly and even rather forbidding-looking! I can't imagine someone looking at it and saying, "Yessss!! This is the ONE!" Especially as all the other houses in the road look the same.

Other than a few tubs of colourful plants in the front and back gardens, I can't suggest how to soften the look - but maybe I'm just an old fogey and others would disagree?

And even with 4 nice big bedrooms, it doesn't look like a house worth almost half a million quid to me. I think I'd be expecting it to have a much more 'luxurious' feel for that money.

The creepy light at the top of the stairs gives me arachnophobia!

Sorry, but I would consider dropping the price.

We looked at a couple of new builds similar in design to this, and we also rejected them because of the smaller "living space" compared to the bedroom space. When you have younger kids you need more communal space.

If you can separate or zone those areas effectively, that might help. Plus you have a long narrow kitchen when every one nowadays wants large and square...

How much do you tidy up for viewings? Some rooms have clutter on show, e.g. first bathroom shot, the office shot (things sucked really high)

It looks a decent bland new build house. Remember the market is pretty slow, were the people who visited in a real position to buy, I.e. had sold their house or were first time buyers?

I think it's one of the nicest houses I've seen but it's a European style house with a single big living area, so I wonder if it simply isn't going to be popular in the UK where small subdivided downstairs seems to be more fashionable. I guess you'll have to lower the price or wait for the right (maybe non-British!) buyer.

The architecture has a somewhat niche appeal. That might be limiting things somewhat, I’m not sure we would get past the first photo unless the price was very appealing.

We’ve got similar houses near us. Tbh yours looks lovely inside but I just find the exterior really ugly. They remind me of, I dunno, office blocks or maybe barracks? Not homely.

I'd declutter the kitchen, add a photo showing the dining area and add some pots of colour in the garden - it looks very clinical and all sharp lines at the moment

I think you need at least a photo of the dining area as it’s hard to work out how much space you have. The more people that book viewings from RM, the more potential offerers, and I wouldn’t view a house I thought had nowhere for a table!

Also does your main bathroom have any sort of shower? People don’t necessarily want the only shower to be in an en-suite so showing one if it’s there might help.

Not enough downstairs space.a 4 bed i would expect a 2nd reception room, a utility room, or even a garage that could be converted to make more space

I agree that the downstairs space is disproportionate to the upstairs space. It is almost like a starter home with extra bedrooms. Builders build 4 beds to get the extra £££ but don't realise this needs what you have plus a utility room and a second living/family room.

Is there a service charge for the estate?

I really like it. I second the poster who suggested that a few tubs/plantpots would add some colour to the garden, which is tidy, but a bit bland. You can take them with you. Also, maybe a chinmea or something to suggest wonderful outdoor living possibilities. If you arent't likely to use it, you could have one of those cheap as chips ones
that disintegrates with the second use, speaking from the voice of bitter experience

I agree, it's the downstairs

I cant imagine using that space.

Chimnea, even..

I agree that the downstairs looks small. Definitely add in photos of the dining area. I would much prefer it with the living room separate, but would be open to doing that myself if it were straightforward. It also is a bit weird having the floating bit with parking underneath and not a garage!

Honestly I think it's a gorgeous house with a disappointing kitchen and lack of dining space unless I'm missing something.

Sorry but I wouldn't view it because of how it looks from the outside.

what is the brick building at bottom of garden I thought it was a garage but it has no access, personally the living space is just too small for the bedrooms I would never buy a house with only one one plan living area, the dining area looks like a table for 4 max
the actual interior is fine though I also don't like landing light but it would not put me off buying like the lack of reception space would
I don't like the low window in kitchen looking onto street either
open plan living spaces are only OK if 2 people if you have young kids there is no getting away from the toys as they are too young to play upstairs unsupervised and toddlers toys are big and occupy space, as kids get older there is nowhere to go if someone wants to watch different TV , Ok once teenagers they will only emerge from bedrooms to seat so it might work again!

Outside is ugly.
Downstairs all being open plan would mean I’d hear the washer and that drives me crackers.
Doesn’t look like there’s space for a dining table.
Cluttered = lack of storage?
Why do the photos start upstairs? They should walk through the house.