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?

How is the market where you are, generally?

Brexit won't be helping in most places but where I live, houses are still going quickly if they are priced right. Is yours the same?

If your mum spends a decent amount of time at your house, she won't be able to tell you that it smells like dog. I leave my own house sometimes, come back in and realise something smells. You just block it out. And I don't have pets!

I love grey, personally, but it's a divisive colour - and you've got a lot of personality in your house, with your bedroom for example, so you need someone that loves both of those things.

But I'd imagine that your neighbours will be your biggest problem. I'd be concerned about being stuck next to people who devalue the house or are loud/irritating, if they look like they've got a lot of outside projects on the go, and if things are in disrepair, that won't help. Did the other two houses have "nicer" looking neighbours?

Link????

Poster wants advice then doesn't provide the means to getting it. Go figure.

The reason for the other houses nearby selling might not means there's anything 'wrong' with your house. Estate agents can have a lot of influence if its within their interest. Perhaps the seller of the other house was also buying a house through the same agent or using their mortgage advisor for example. The agents will make more money if someone buys the other house rather than yours. I've experienced this before.
Don't beat yourself up, it sounds like you've done the right things to make your house as sellable as possible. The various opinions on here must go someway to show to you that everyone likes something different. And people may well have chosen the other houses for something as fickle as paint colour!

I'd be put off by scruffy neighbours tbh so it could be that!

Can you screenshot the floor plan of the house on rightmove/zoopla and post so we can have a look at that as it would help.

It may well be a combination of a few things from scruffy neighbours, grey walls, high gloss kitchen, AstroTurf, problems getting out of the drive on the bend of a road, pets, next door’s nearby conservatory. For me, all of those things except grey walls and pets would give pause for thought. That would mean too many negatives, so I wouldn’t offer.

And Brexit is making things sluggish although that’s not specific to you obviously.

Definitely need a link.

Op, this is difficult. It neighbouring houses are all selling it's not the market.

Normally when a house doesn't sell it's the price.

Your decor sounds neutral enough so doubt it's that, no matter that some folks would buy a house or not due to not liking the neutral decor.

So it's something else that means people don't see it as worth the money being asked. They would rather buy else where.

From what you've posted it could be a mix of things, small rooms, busy road on a corner, crappy neighbours making rhe immediate area look shit.

Without a link it's hard to say. It really is. People can only go on what you say, and not make their own minds up, which skews the responses.

Oh and please don't consider repainting your house magnolia as a pp suggests, 😂

We had a house like this a few years ago. Feedback was always "Its a lovely house, just not for us". No reason why!! It was so soul destroying. Agents repeatedly assured us we would get £340/350k for it but ended up after 7 months accepting £310k. What made it worse (for me) was that I busted a gut to get packed up and out of this house on 30th June at buyers insistence, left it spotless - literally sparkling clean - they didn't move in for 6 weeks and then sent a series of snotty emails saying it was filthy and we should pay for them having to replace all the carpets. Horrid people!!

Do you know what neightbours sold for? This is very different to advertised at!
Houses do not sell for one reason and that is that they are too expensive. If you will take 15k less than the asking price then advertise it at the price you want for it

Have you put in the 'blurb' that you're selling due to relocation? Scruffy neighbours and a fast turn around would make me think that they were a problem ...

Trying to think why your neighbours house sold and yours hasn't.

I'm currently buying

Being on a bend of a road would put me off. We looked at some and it looked a nightmare getting card off.

I don't like the white gloss kitchen. It looks too trendy and would date. It has a very harsh look to it and would be difficult to keep looking nice.

Heavy patterns eg bedroom. It wouldn't be a compleet no, but my dh has a vestibular disorder so the bedroom would have to change straight away. Also the tree paper in the living room. Looks like Christmas trees. All the houses that catch my eye have mostly been painted, not wallpaper. I do like your navy wall though.

What is your parking like compared to neighbours?

Did any of them include fitted wardrobes?

Just post the link!

It's scary I know, but when I posted my link, I made the changes and sold within 48 hours - you could too!

To be fair there is no way I’d post a link to my house as I’d be immediately identifiable.

Things that sprang to mind for me are

The sold houses-are they on with the same agent?

Is it too bland?- I am put off by houses that are too catalogue perfect TBH

it’s the neighbours, I worry when moving mostly about the neighbours as it can be a nightmare if they are awful and scruffy houses tend to make you think they just don’t care even though it may not be true

I’d look at getting some bamboo or similar along the diving fence so it screens you and possibly changing the fake grass (another thing which puts me off)