Should I be worried about not being able to sell? Link included.

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Be nice, but please be honest.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-82736315.html

I've been on for 8 weeks, 6 viewings and no offers. I've dropped from £325,00.
Houses either side are also on - but the one to the right of me has just sold within a week (was on for £285,000 I think but was a rental property in two flats and needs complete modernisation including kitchen, bathroom, central heating, and only has two bedroom as they converted upstairs back bedroom to big bathroon).

House other side of me has different layout and also needs work - they started out at same price but dropped theirs too. It has much much smaller garden.

I can't do anything about the layout - I've done what I can with the money I had given my house needed complete modernisation and remedial works (think new roof, central heating etc etc) when I moved in.

TIA

I'd need a floor plan too. Scrap the settee and fold out table and stick a dining table in there.

The bedroom photo looks wrong with the angles they've used, can't see the size properly.

For Whitstable it’s a bloody bargain!
So I think you should defo get your agent to buck their ideas up and come and take better photos for you and get a floorplan on.
Then viewers’ expectations are managed re size / location of kitchen & bathroom.
You can get keep the dressing room description and get it added onto the floorplan, that’s an added bonus.
Clear the car stuff from the blue room and it will really help to dress them as bed rooms. Even if you buy cheap 2nd bed frames from charity shops.
And if you can make the yellow room a dining room as per the description.
That’s all you need to do.
It’s a lovely house! Good luck.
I love Whitstable - if I could move there I’d happily buy it off you.

I think it looks lovely, just let down by the photos and lack of a floorplan.

You don't need to spend a lot of money, you could move your bed into the blue bedroom and just put another colour (ironed) bedding on it for pictures.

Make the dining room look like a dining room.

The only thing I think might put people off is the cat tree, as pp said some are alergic or might think it would smell of cats.

You can do your own photos as and when you have time and send them to the EA and tell them which order you want them.

I think the order I would want to see is front of house, living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms (largest to smallest) and then garden, you can do as many pictures as you want, the more the merrier from different angles. You can edit your own photos, crop and lighten them, make them more colour rich (but not too much) etc. Always take pictures on a sunny day.

Hope you sell soon.

It’s an odd time to sell. Anyone with school children has committed to a school now. I think you’ll have more luck in Sept - December.

Don't spend vast amounts of money on staging - stick a post on Facebook asking if anyone has a spare dining table/ bed you could borrow for a short while - you'll be surprised what stuff people have hanging round in their garage etc and wouldn't mind lending you. Or check Freecycle.
When I was trying to sell my last house I needed a single bed for my third bedroom but couldn't get hold of one so I used a single lilo balanced on packing crates at each corner with a bedspread down to the floor to hide that it wasn't actually a bed, and nice pillows and cushions - it looked great in the photo and cost nothing.

Thanks folk, I had to get out on my bike to clear my head and make a plan.

Photos have def been played with and I agree there are some very odd looking shapes going on. My bedroom is much wider than it looks. Someone said lazy EA and I'm beginning to think the EA assumed they won't have to work to sell my house.

So should I tell the EA what I want them to do but in the meantime whilst I dress the rooms and get rid of the cat tree ( I hear ya, MN) tell them not to book any more viewings (not that I'm overrun with them, clearly).

Not knowing the area but viewing houses like crazy. Not much to add, but the photos make it look small. Also the yellow could be off putting by some people. The outside needs more greenery

The kitchen would be too small for me, sorry. But as others have said, it is difficult to know what some rooms are with the angle of the photos and the front needs brightening up a bit, or just have the photos taken on a nicer day

The second photo would put me off straight away. I don't know what room that is but the small folding table pushed up against the radiator would make me think that the house isn't big enough for a dining table for a family.

You need a different photo for the kitchen too it makes it look an odd shape like you can't get out of it in through the door you'll walk straight into the washing machine.

Another photo of the front of house.

And yes floor plan.

I would

1. Get a floor plan
2. Redecorate blue bedroom with white - make it bigger and brighter
3. Ditto other bedroom without photo if not light / white walls
4. Put huge cat toy into shed / storage
5. Drastically Reduce shoes/ coats , so many makes it look like no storage
6. Nothing you can do about size of kitchen but it's most likely to be the main factor against a sale - if it drags on weigh up putting the dining room into a kitchen -diner and the kitchen then is utility room - not as expensive as it sounds

It's Generally very slow at the moment so a couple of months is nothing

You have got some people through the door and I don’t think the listing is so terrible as to put people if viewing.

However, it’s a tiny house and should be a 2-bed really. The downstairs bathroom and kitchen should be a decent size kitchen, and the mini boxroom should be an upstairs bathroom. If people are looking for an actual 3-bed, the kitchen and bedroom sizes just won’t cut it. So the pricing should be somewhere in between 2 and 3 bed houses (I don’t know if it is or not).

Another vote for

• a floorplan
• pots of bright flowers at the front of the house
• a proper asking price
• sensible order for photos (for me always living rooms > kitchen > bedrooms > bathroom >garden)
• sort out the cat bedroom!

Omg I LOVE your house. Small faults: I'd prefer a period front door. Try to dress the smaller bedrooms look like bedrooms & get rid of that black box that blocks the view in the garden. If at all possible, reshoot outside pics on a sunny day or get the agents to photoshop a blue sky in.

The second bedroom is 10ft 10ins by 8ft 8ins .The smallest bedroom is 6ft 10ins by 11ft 2. Is that tiny? I had a double bed in the second room and there was room for a triple wardrobe at the end of it and a full size chest of drawers to the side.
I think the agent has mesasured from where there is built in space next to what used to be a chimney breast and perhaps thats why it seems small.
Or maybe it is just a tiny house, I don't know but it was built as a family home back in the day!
The cat tree is gone though.

I really like te house and all the quirky corners and areas, bit too neutral for my liking but that's just my personal taste.
i could imagine myself in a house like that.
Love the woodburner.
The garden is very small and doesn't make me go wow, there is no colour in it, it's very boring.
The kitchen doesn't inspire me, it's very small and would look so much better with wood worktops, fine for a couple but a bit small if you have a family.
Whitstable is lovely too.
I've spent many hours on Righmove and I thinks it's overpriced. It will sell very quickly for the right price.

also just noticed the bathroom is downstairs, I love a downstairs bathroom but most people do not, it's very inconvenient if you have young children as you have to go down to wash them then up again to dress them.
That alone makes the house too expensive.

No there's nothing in the offing, coincidence that me and next door decided to move but for very different reasons. Next door on other side had a series of disastrous lets so he's selling for his retirement pension but I can see how it could look to an outsider.

Bottom line is there are things I can do to refresh it and all your ideas about a garden tidy, painting and dressing the bedrooms, sorting the 'dressing room', taking out the sofa that's in the dining room etc I can do.
I'm definitely going to the EA tomorrow, I've written a list of things I want from them and I'll start painting the bedrooms tomorrow.
Thanks all.

The dining table plonked in front of the radiator looks like it's been put there to sell the house and is not normally used. It would probably fit where the little table is next to it on the wall, if it doesn't block the door.

I am allergic to cats. No way would I view anywhere with a cat tower so that will increase your market potential straight away if you are moving it!

Dressing area - call it a walk in wardrobe instead, they are popular.

The bedrooms (if the cat room is one of them) could do with beds in to give an idea of size as they seem bigger than they look on the photos - do you have any inflatable beds that you can use, just cover them with bedding and they will look fine.

Floorplan would definitely help I think, the photos are not doing your house justice! Good luck with the sale OP.

Mention all the work you've done in the listing if possible. If you've invested in a new roof etc. then it helps to justify the price if more expensive than recent sales.

Is the folding table in the lounge your dining table? That would put me off - makes me think the house is too small, as it's right up by the couch!

The kitchen is so narrow too - can you take a more flattering pic of it?

Make the garden look more inviting and more like an outside room with a seating area.

Make the cat room into a bedroom.

Better pics of bathroom would be good

cats spray their homes

Very rarely. Only if you have an unneutered Tom.

Lots of sensible advise already on this thread - make the spare rooms look like bedrooms and get the photos on. Dining room looks too small, get rid of the sofa and put a proper table in. The lounge, bathroom and bedroom look lovely. I love cats, but the cat tree is a huge no no. It’s a lovely house, I think you can achieve a lot with a bit of dressing and some better photos.

Those are decent bedroom sizes!

I agree a floorplan is essential

Redo phitos, add some plant pots to the front of the house, vases with flowers in the living room and master bedroom.

Is the coat room picture the dressing area? If so could you get a cheap clothes rail and hang the items on that with a bench seat/dressing table type thing

Set the yellow room up as a proper dining room, table and chairs showing it can seat X people, move couch from that room, maybe in to the living room and the single chair to the cat bedroom and set it like a second lounge/den/game room/study.

Living room looks small, only a small couch and chair and the table looks like something you would pull out to sit laptop on or eat a quick dinner on.

Show the entrance hallway and top landing

Picky but can you put a gate at the end of the path?

Garden looks smaller than it is, cut back some of the greenery opposite the shed and at the bench and perhaps take a photo from the far end of the garden to show the length.

I don't mean to sound horrible but it is just what jumps out at me initially. Of course this is a rubbish time to sell and all the changes you make might not help with sales.

Be careful dropping the price too quickly and multiple times as you might look desperate to sell so will get lower offers.