Please help me sell my house!

[charliehunnamssixpack]

Would appreciate any critique or help - been on the market 2 weeks and all everyone keeps telling me is how quickly things are selling. I have only had 3 viewings, one was a nosy neighbour, one didn't turn up and the third liked it but it was over her budget. Have listed previously and sold within 4 days so I don't know what's wrong this time.

Any ideas of how I can improve the listing to get more people through the door?

I think maybe get new photos of the third bedroom done as an actual bedroom rather than a room full of random stuff... anything else?
Tone down the garden patio perhaps?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-97157954.html

Patio is gorgeous!
I’d put a double bed in the second bedroom as people might be thinking it’s just not big enough/can’t imagine how much space there’d be with a double bed and spare wardrobe in

With the 3rd bedroom, just use the bed from bedroom 2 for the photo, then move it back.

It's lovely. I'd buy it as is!

Any luck yet OP?

Our house is on the market too, it's been slower than I thought but I think it says more about the local market than your own house tbh. I wouldn't bother doing half the things people suggest above, I don't think it'll make any difference. Your house is better presented than 95% of the stuff we are looking at on RM. If you're desperate for this new property then perhaps lower the price slightly in a weeks' time?

I decided to lower the price by £10k yesterday. Will wait to see whether that generates any more interest. It's frustrating as I needed that £10k to do work on the next property, but it is what it is.

Will have to save up for the works instead, if I still manage to get the house I have my eye on. They're taking viewings from other people and have had a couple of offers but mine is the highest so I guess they're waiting for an offer at the same level from someone who is already proceedable, or for mine to actually sell so I'm proceedable!

Hope you find a buyer soon.

Price drop seems to have done the trick

Three viewings booked for tomorrow and another next week. Fingers crossed!

Oh good.

It is lovely. Maybe its too expensive compared to others?

It views well and will sell. Irthlingborough may be a bit slow at the moment because of the Chowns mill work. That may put off those from out of town.
It isn't your house: that's looking fine.

In her original post the OP said things were selling quickly in Irthlingborough ODFIx. I live in another place affected by Chown's Mill, but it doesn't seem to have stopped people buying the many new builds available.

I have an offer it's not the level I was hoping for but it's a good start.

I wonder if the Covid bottleneck buying frenzy has finished and things are back to normal buying and selling, ie the excess demand is gone and the market will just tick over as normal.

As others have said, it’s a pretty standard house in that there is nothing unique about it but there’s also nothing offensive about it. A buyer could imagine moving straight in.

Good luck OP.

Hi @charliehunnamssixpack, that is a great result. I sold at the start of the last financial crisis and I accepted an offer as my EA told me if I hung about, the offer would go and I would be stuck on the market. Think hard about how much under what you want the offer is, and then see how financially viable the people are (I took a buyer who was chain free and buying it as an investment, even though it was my beautiful family home) and that meant a fast completion and money in the bank.

So, look into how many other potential offers you have and how quickly these people can proceed. Good luck.

@Annasgirl

Good advice, the property market is facing many headwinds and I can’t see how current prices will be sustainable.

Good news about the offer OP.

Personally I’d assume that it’s been on the market for at least 4 moment the because of the garden photos. So I’m surprised you say its 3 weeks.

Also I don’t agree it’s bland, i think it’s tidy.

4 months