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

No the dining table is an oval table which is extendable and it's in the dining room to the rear of the house. I put a sofa in there as the room opens to the garden and I like to sit in there sometimes. The front room with the log burner is entirely separate at the front of the house. I can't believe the pictures are so unrepesentative of how my house actually is, I'll have to be extra careful with how I speak to the EA tomorrow .

OK just catching up with your posts.
The sofa won't fit in the front room due to the bay not being wide enough so it's going to have to be stored somewhere. Not in my shed as that's where i just shoved a load of other stuff including the cat tree.

The beige chair is a recliner and really, really heavy so it won't go upstairs.

So the dressing area has a rail in it and other posters thought it looked messy and untidy so I'm going to buy some canvas wardrobe things and put them there instead and call it a walk in wardrobe!!

instead of canvas wardrobes what about this at the entrance to the area?

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7012761?gclsrc=aw.ds&&cmpid=GS001&$ja=tsid:59156%7Cacid:444-797-0832%7Ccid:596310901%7Cagid:28594312645%7Ctid:aud-641224040617:pla-182985062965%7Ccrid:95888230765%7Cnw:g%7Crnd:4226435613080359174%7Cdvc:m%7Cadp:1o1%7Cmt:%7Cloc:9046955&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-b7qBRDPARIsADVbUbVJE9BBi3oxWyUhAgVcM3yCs068ZHdFO6NPo6CTFLZsqehMXmBFqqcaAmJ6EALwwcB

without spending much if any money some points have been made by others

1. swap photos 2 and 3 so see living room first
2. if possible retake dining room photo with table out
3. try and beg or borrow a bed for the blue (previously cat) bedroom
4. re photo 8 remove big black box
5. re photo 10 trim back the ferns it just looks too overgrown
6. put photos 12, 13, and 15 next to the other photos of same room
7. I think photo 16 is the walk in wardrobe but as no photo of 3rd bedroom people may think it is actually a really tiny 3rd bedroom so get a photo of the real 3rd bedroom preferably with a bed in it
8. attach floor plan to details

only the purchase of 2 second hand beds and the gardener will cost any money

First picture is dominated by dead hedge and next door neighbours huge dog/gate at front door is off putting. Also need a floor plan to get the feel of the place.

Price seems a little high compared to what are basically identical houses on same street.

I have someone who will take my dining room sofa on Tuesday and store it for as long as necessary, free. Aren't people nice
Also have put out checkatrade ad for garden overhaul/tidy.

Will go on freeads later for beds and anything else that I can dress the bedrooms with.
Mumsnet at its best, thank you.

I've not read the full thread but I'm sure you will have had lots of helpful advice.

My first thought was that I wouldn't consider a family house without an upstairs bathroom - sorry!

Can you take photos of the kitchen from outside through an open window? I've done this in a small space and it works well.

Please don't put that awful concertina door in - the canvas wardrobe is a better idea.

Just a thought, but could the dining room sofa and the reclining armchair be swapped over? I don't think a photo of the 'dressing room' is actually necessary on the listing.

@wowfudge, it wouldn't fit anyway and I prefer the canvas wardrobe idea.
I have a company coming tomorrow evening to cost a thorough garden tidy up including a solution to the front hedge situation which, I agree, looks horrible and I hate seeing it myself so it's no big deal for me to get it sorted.

How much are you paying your EA?
Some of the fixed fee ones would probably do a better job for a lot less, you would definitely get a floorplan, and probably better quality photos.
Have a look at doorsteps.co.uk, yopa, purplebricks etc.
I don't think your EA is trying hard enough and if you're paying them thousands, you save a lot.

1.5% for sole agency @sahbear. Purple Bricks had some really bad reviews which was why I went for a local agent but I'll have a look at the others.

OP the market is pretty flat at the moment! All the estate agents I've come across are blaming Brexit. We are trying to sell and have been on the market for 6 weeks with no luck (although that's not actually very long!). The same houses in our area are on Rightmove day in, day out as the market isn't very buoyant. The summer holidays are also a slower time for estate agents (I used to work in one, and even during the property boom, the summer holidays were quieter).

Aw your house is so sweet, I really like it.

The only thing missing is floor plan, I can see everything else. No need to spend a load of money on your house it is sparkling and looks well cared for.

1.. move the little table and computer table/printer to the walk in wardrobe space.

1. Get garden done and make the front a bit more colourful with a few pots and that.
2. Put beds or makey up beds in the bedrooms.

I just do not understand how people can be so picky. They expect everything to be perfect in the pix, and once in they rip it all out anyway.

But first impressions are lasting.

Best of luck. Tweak it a bit as in make the rooms do what they are supposed to and get new pix, then crack on!

Photography is awful, not making most of spaces
No floor plan- I’d assume something weird
It’s clean and tidy but looks as though it may also need updating a bit because of colours- just personal pref- so in blurb would add things like ‘recently uodated’ Etc
Remove cat room and stage as proper bedroom. Likewise any other not used for obvious purpose rooms
The sofa by table is confusing- is that lounge or kitchen diner? Table not in other sofa shot- if space to open up do so and ditch the spare sofa for now
Kitchen angle is awful- looks small and dated at a glance whereas I think it’s more the poor angles
Hth

Is the bathroom measurement right? It doesn’t look like it’s only 3ft 6 wide.

Floor plan and get rid of first garden photo as it looks tiny! Marketed as family home but no space to kick a ball sorry xx

Doesn't look dated to me and like the colours. That's just taste not raw property stuff x

I havent rtft so may just be the same as what other people have said.

I think you have a lovely home.

Two things I think that would put me off but could be easily rectified would be 1. Add a floor plan to rightmove and 2. Pull out the weeds in the back garden. Possibly also remove those big Bush things in the tidied bit of the garden as it makes the space look small.

The big thing for me that you wouldn't be able to change is I couldnt live with a kitchen like that - it's very small and an odd shape, is there another room next to it that could be knocked through to? If so maybe bear that in mind with your pricing in that buyers may take the cost of knocking through into consideration when making an offer.

Hope it sells soon!

So the bathroom at it's narrowest is 3ft 6" wide yes, but that's becasue of the odd slight angle of the doorway I'd do a diagram but tbh there's no silk purses to be made out of a tiny bathroom - however there is a bath on the other side of the bathroom, with a shower and a full sized loo, I promise!

Yeah, no knocking through possible as the kitchen is the bit of the house that sticks out IYSWIM - only possible thing would be to expand the kitchen into the dining room as another poster has suggested, and I have thought about that in the past. But I need to move so I can't do that myself.

I don't mind the kitchen and bathroom.

The dining room looks odd - you've fit a sofa in but then squashed a tiny table in. Could you put a 4 seater table in that room and make it just a dining room. Maybe put the sofa into the cat room - as a family buyer I'm more willing to accept a bedroom being used as an extra room cos you don't need it than it being for the cat (which suggests nothing else will go in it)

Definitely get a floor plan done - it helps people work out how useable the space is

Too many sofas and chairs? Open the dining table up (looks extendable) and get rid of that brown sofa