Help me get ready to sell my house (Photos included and brutal honesty welcome)

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We were on the market last year and got 1 viewing. Naturally this year has been a write off so I'm trying to use this time to improve it and make sure it appeals to people.

It's in South Wales and we bought for 90k in 2014. Last year it was valued at 110k and I'd be happy to sell at that. It's a 3 bed, end terrace with an attached garage and small courtyard garden. We also have an upstairs bathroom plus downstairs loo/utility room which is unusual for terraces in the area.

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The outside render colour would put me off straight away sorry OP

Can't tell from the photos but is the whole of the downstairs tiled right from lounge, dining and kitchen? It's a bit of an acquired taste and most purchasers I imagine would prefer at least wooden flooring of some kind?

Bathroom maybe needs a bit more personality?

You could improve its kerb appeal with some plants. If you have the budget, a couple of standard bay trees in planters by the door with trailing pansies underneath (you can get varieties that bloom for 12 months) would look nice and/or some box balls at the end of the path. If you might be on the market in spring, you could plant bulbs along the path and top of the front wall (now is the time to do that) that start to bloom from January onwards. You can plant them directly into the lawn. If you have a tiny budget, trailing pansies would only cost a few pounds. Just a few trailing down the wall would look nice and add some colour.

It looks perfectly fine, although the photos themselves are terrible - presumably you’ll get professional ones done by the agent?

Is £110k average for your type of house in your local area? Because lack of viewings generally means people think it’s overpriced / they can get better for the same money.

Hi OP, first thought is kerb appeal. I'd paint the render (first thought in white or cream) and have a lovely bright coloured front door. Plant flowers along the edge of the garden so that there are nice contrasts.

Being brutally honest it looks tired especially from the outside. However, I wouldn't spend money on it as a buyer will buy as is and change to taste. Instead I would just concentrate on making it as uncluttered and spacious appearing as possible.

Sorry if this is brutal but it is much like when we sold our last home and we painted etc. and it wasn't enough to make a real difference, so it is kindly meant i.e. I wish I had realised that before doing lots of painting!

Move the kids toys from the kitchen photo. Makes it look smaller and cluttered.

The bathroom needs livening up. Maybe some plants? More colours? Something on the wall?

As a PP said, there is basically no kerb appeal either.

Agree that the miserable render colour is a bit off-putting; how much would it cost you to have it repainted and would you need to hire scaffolding? For a couple of hundred pounds it might be worth it but the house is so cheap that I’m unsure whether it’s worth doing pricey things to it if you’d not make the money back.

Just to add we just painted our render on our next house and that required scaffolding and a lot of hours of painting by us, but it did look better.

@GOODCAT

Being brutally honest it looks tired especially from the outside. However, I wouldn't spend money on it as a buyer will buy as is and change to taste. Instead I would just concentrate on making it as uncluttered and spacious appearing as possible.

Sorry if this is brutal but it is much like when we sold our last home and we painted etc. and it wasn't enough to make a real difference, so it is kindly meant i.e. I wish I had realised that before doing lots of painting!

Yes I totally agree with this.

I don’t think that there’s any point in repainting the house as the cost of it will take up a fair bit of your profit on a £110k house.

I can’t believe there are houses that cheap in the UK still! Nice house for that price.

Looks lovely to me, very well presented. I'd give the hedge a trim and maybe switch a couple lights on for the outside pic, looks a little dark 🤔 other than that, looking good!

Paint the outside a cream or a light green or blue.

Inside needs staging. Get rid of the kids toy from the kitchen and put a table that end. The bedroom with all the guitars, get rid of them and put the bed in a better position with bedside draws, wardrobe etc.

The living room looks quite cold and there looks like clutter under the stairs.

Walls could do with some art.

A thin trellis to the left of the front door and something evergreen to go up it then a pot them some pots or troughs in front of the of the extension on the right would immediately take the edge off the front and most of it you could take with you and use in new place.

Depends on what the market is like where you live. We thought we would have to paint the outside of ours but there is little on the market in the area and plenty of buyers so we have a high offer than it would have been worth last year with no work done.

If you only got one viewing it’s overpriced.
Estate agents will over value it to get your business.

Agree with the others the render would put me off. Is it concrete build? Lenders have got really reluctant to lend on these as well which would put me right off also.

The grey render Outside makes it look depressing and uninviting from the outside. Agree some vibrant hanging baskets and window boxes would improve this. I would also hang a few well chosen neutral pictures on the walls to give it a more lived in look

I'd trim the hedge too and put absolutely everything away - you seem to have lots of things on the floor (not clear from the photos - but next to TV, under the stairs in the lounge, music equipment in the red bedroom?) take off all the posters off the fridge, the things stored on top of it, move the kids things out of the kitchen, remove the step from next to the sink in the bathroom, pull back the curtains properly in the other bedroom - just anything to make it look less cluttered and brighter.

Other than that, get photos which "sell it" - those photos are awful but I think its a lovely house! Good luck!

I'd repaint the purple and blue a cream or white and rearrange the furniture so it looks more spacious.

Although the grey render isn't particularly attractive, I don't believe repainting it will make any difference especially at that price. And the two houses along from you are also rendered so it's obviously just the character of your street.

However, there are some cheap and cheerful things to brighten up the outside a bit as others have said - tubs of flowers and cut the hedge, maybe even a hanging basket or a little bench that you could pick up cheaply?

Inside - lose the toys from the kitchen and maybe put a small table/chairs there so people can imagine it as a kitchen/diner, put the guitars away in a cupboard, remove the stuff from under the staircase - is there any way to pull the bed from right against the window in the bedroom as it looks very crowded.

Anything to go on the walls - pictures or mirrors? It looks very bare.

Otherwise it looks clean and well maintained although the photos aren't the best!

These are the "professional" photos. I am going with a different estate agent this time.

The outside is depressing, I agree. It's pebble dash.

although the photos themselves are terrible - presumably you’ll get professional ones done by the agent?

Crikey, I was going to say " Of course she will, that's what agents do, take proper photos" ....until I saw the op's update. Can't believe they were done by the agent - steer well clear!

@GOODCAT

Being brutally honest it looks tired especially from the outside. However, I wouldn't spend money on it as a buyer will buy as is and change to taste. Instead I would just concentrate on making it as uncluttered and spacious appearing as possible.

Sorry if this is brutal but it is much like when we sold our last home and we painted etc. and it wasn't enough to make a real difference, so it is kindly meant i.e. I wish I had realised that before doing lots of painting!

Agree. It was fair to say my house needed updating, and painting wasn't going to change that. We started, and then stopped at the estate agents recommendation.

Can't wait to tell DH we need to put the guitars away

To answer a few more questions, it is all tiled downstairs and the reception room actually has a dining area at the back. Presumably you can't see that from the photos! Honestly didn't think they were that bad.