Why isn't it selling?

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Why oh why isn’t my house selling?
Been on the market for 12 weeks. House 3 doors down one way and 5 doors down the other way have both sold in the last month.
Mine is identical to them both, but is on the bend of the road.
It’s cheaper than the ones that have sold too.
New plain gloss white kitchen put in 2.5 years ago, new en suite, cloakroom and main bathroom all put in 6 months ago (all neutral). The whole house is painted very light grey and boring, and we’ve re-carpeted the entire house and landscaped the garden.
I just do not understand?
The feedback we are getting is “bedrooms aren’t a massive improvement on what we already have” they are 3 double and 1 single bedroom, or “the road is busy”, yes it is, but 2 others have sold recently and it’s on the same road as theirs! Another person didn’t like the neighbours conservatory as it stops an inch away from our house.
Everyone saying how beautiful the house is inside, and they love the garden. It’s got 2 parking spaces too which people like.
Our garden is the biggest on the road as we are a corner plot.
I just do not get what I can do to improve it?

We’ve got a new front door and new garage door. Despite all the work we’ve done we are only asking £15,000 more than we bought it for 2 years ago. We desperately need to relocate and it’s getting me down.
I asked the estate agents if we should drop price, but they’ve said it’s a really fair and realistic price for the road it’s on.

Link please!

Link?

The quick answer is price, but it might just be luck or there might be something glaringly obvious.

Probably taking it too personally, but the neighbours saw one lady leaving our property today and she refused to even take the details for our house. Her max budget is £20,000 more than what ours is even listed for and she didn’t want to know. It just makes you feel like shit when everything around you is selling and no-one likes your house.
For further info they are all new builds, 10 years old.

I’m too scared to link 😩
My estate agent is on here as she was talking about it the other day.

We've got 2 identical houses in our road. House 1 went on the market. House 2 went on the market a few weeks later and sold almost immediately. Six months later House 1 is still unsold.

Why is that though?
It’s so frustrating.
If we had proper reasons why it’s not selling then we’d be able to improve things, but we’ve done everything to make it immaculate. There’s not a single complaint re the inside, and they are 3 average size doubles and 1 single bedroom. The house is spotless, but no one tells us why they don’t want it.
It’s funny because when we bought the house I walked in the door and thought it had a lovely feeling to it. And that’s when it was all shabby!

It might be quality of the photos
It might be you have too much clutter/stuff so buyers have a hard time visualizing their stuff in the house
It might be that your garden is overlooked by a neighbour
It might be traffic noise
It might be presence of pets
It might be white goods are not as good as other homes
It might be the grey color which you’ve said is boring
It might be your landscaping is not easy to maintain
It might be how you are using the rooms- ie is a bedroom set up as an office? Did you make dining room into something else? People have limited imaginations.

I’d go round your area and look at other homes for sale of same size and in same price bracket to get an idea what your competition is.

I’m on rightmove every single day comparing mine to others.
The landscaping is patio, raised borders and artificial grass (I know some people hate it, but we live in a marsh area with clay soil so 80% of houses have it)
There is literally no clutter. Perhaps 4 photos on the units in the lounge and 1 vase.
Bedrooms are completely cleared, bar beds and chest of drawers/wardrobes.
We do have pets, but we make sure they’re not around for viewings and I’m assured it doesn’t smell like dog in here!
Kitchen sides literally have microwave, utensils pot, kettle and toasted.
Kitchen is kitchen diner and just has one table in the dining but with a small sofa.
What else can I do? 😩

For reference as well, there were another 2 houses with identical layouts that were on for £5/10,000 more than ours.
They both got taken off when we put ours on as they have 10 year old kitchens/bathrooms and people were comparing them to ours which was newly renovated and cheaper. I know this because we all had the same estate agent. Which makes me think that ours is priced fairly.

OP without a link - we just have your word for how neutral and spotless and lovely your home is.

And I’m afraid to say - you are not exactly objective on this issue!

The evidence would indicate that there is something up. It could be have property or it could be then price. It’s going to be one or both. Fact.

It's really impossible to give any meaningful suggestions without being able to see it.

But second to what others have said, have a look inside the other houses selling if you are able to.

It would help to see a link. Are you on with purple bricks?

Before we bought the house it was on the market twice in the space of a year.
So 3 years ago it got an offer for what it’s on for now (and that was without it being done up) but it fell through.
When we bought it 6 months later we offered £30,000 less than the previous offer they had. They accepted.
We have it on for £15,000 less than an offer that was on the house 3 years ago.
House prices are definitely not decreasing around here!

Hang on, I meant we are happy to accept an offer of £15,000 under an offer 3 years ago!
It’s on for the same price as it sold for originally 3 years ago!

Hmm is it too grey and characterless? Perhaps you have gone too far in that direction. I would be massively put off by a house that didn't feel like a cosy home.

So bedrooms are grey with pink accents, grey with lemon accents and grey with mustard accents.
Lounge isn’t grey actually! It’s navy and beige. Bathrooms both grey, cloakroom downstairs grey, kitchen and hallway grey.

It's hard to say without a link to your house and the others for comparison.
Maybe people just saw 3 houses the same on the same road and went for the cheaper ones. Maybe they'd rather have a smaller mortgage and put their own stamp on the place than pay a premium for someone else's taste. I'm assuming the original kitchen and bathrooms weren't awful if the houses are only ten years old. Or maybe they don't realise yours has had a lot of work done.

Maybe people like to put their own mark on a house. It sounds like yours has already been improved and wouldn't need much work.

Ours is the cheapest! And was identical prices to the 2 houses taken off when we put ours on.
I’ll speak to my agent tomorrow as I just don’t get it.
We’ve sold with them twice before and they’ve been very honest in the past.
Told me that we would struggle as bedrooms smaller than average in our old house, and our extension on our old house was marmite, and our extension had caused 2 rooms to lose natural light etc.
This house they don’t have anything negative to say?

What is nearby? Is there noise? Barking dogs, people fixing cars, pub/bars?

In the past we have been put off by various things, one being a guy fixing a motorbike in the garden, thinking of resulting revving every day as he used it, a noisy bar, flood risk, overgrown garden next door (Japanese Knot Weed), a dog yapping through the wall, and one which was a privately owned house next to an estate with a burnt out car and a crowd of youths. Also a railway car park at the back (security risk and development possibility), a green where druggies hung out at the back, loud music and noisy neighbours. Also an electricity sub-station in the garden of one house.

Do you know what the other houses have actually sold for? the vendors may have accepted offers lower than the list price.

It’s too expensive.

Houses will always sell if they’re cheap enough.

So, next door is a bit scruffy looking. Privately owned but they’ve got 3 greenhouses in various states of disrepair, 3 yappy dogs, but you don’t generally hear them until the owners get home in the evening.
They’ve also got about 50 ornaments on the gravel at the front of their house and their door is peeling paint.
But you don’t see the front of their house from mine as we are a corner plot.
You see their back garden from ours though.
House to the other side is rented and a bit shabby, fences rickety and bins overflowing. Plus every time they leave their car they drop pens/coins/toys all over the driveway and leave them there.
Bar that the road is all very much uptogether.

Maybe try to make it look a little nicer? I know they say to keep house plain but I really struggle to be reasonable and imagine my own stuff inside when decor is neutral with ‘accents’. It just sets me off. I know it’s really irrational but it lowers the tone of the fittings.