Advice on selling - Rightmove link included

[PumpkinChai]

Hello

We put our house on the market a few days ago. This is our first time selling so have very much gone on all the advice from the estate agent but I'm having a wobble.

Mainly because there is so much competition on our estate and we are looking for a reasonably quick sell (we are selling because we are worried about not being able to afford to stay here much longer).

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-98778998.html

Thats our Rightmove link. We have been advised to do nothing to the property and save money for new house by the EA.

Anyway, please do be honest.

Where is the garage? Is your only off road parking directly in front of it? Just one space? The garage looks pretty rough TBH & not in keeping with the house.

The kitchen is absolutely beautiful but at first glance at the photos I couldn’t see you had a lounge 🤦🏻‍♀️. I assumed it was a playroom/dining room. I didn’t look at the floor plan until afterwards.

I totally agree with trying to make the lounge look more relaxing & lounge-like.

Well @unmarkedbythat I'm afraid thats a rather special blanket made as a wonderful gift.

There is off road parking directly infront of the house @CoffeeRunner

I can totally get the comments about the garage! We shall take off the photo, it doesn't look that bad in real life and is actually a really secure and damp free storage space but the photo doesn't show that at all.

Yeah I am always surprised at how many people comment on furniture as a turn off too @Mousepad20 ! Its something I'm always surprised by as surely main focus should be the space and finish of the actual walls, door etc (the stuff staying) but clearly it must effect people's perception of a place

Kitchen is very nice.

Garden is quite nice.

The outside is cute.

All the rest is disappointing.

The sitting room looks rather cluttered.

Are you serious? There's hardly anything in there!

No advice OP but I love your kitchen!

It's a lovely house and I'd be very tempted because of that wonderful kitchen, but I'm sorry ... the bathroom straight off the living room would kill it for me

I realise it's too late now, but you said another seller had arranged to have two doors and that's definitely what I'd have done

If its a kitchen diner, why is your table in the lounge?

Not sure if mentioned but I would lead with 4he front photo or the kitchen photo (the one with all the windows). My partner always finds it suspicious when a house ad doesn't show the front

Actually I don't think they do have two doors in the house that has sold and done similar, it confused me in the image as the open door made it look like a 2nd door at a glance. Their downstairs toilet comes straight off their kitchen

@BenT99 could I please have specifics on what you'd change?

See posts above @Puzzledandpissedoff I don't think it does. BUT, its something we would consider changing as its something we always hated ourselves but never got round to doing - I'll look at selling some stuff and seeing if we can do it.

It can fit a table comfortably in the middle @Oopsiedaisyy so the EA said to market it like that. Just suits our living having it in the lounge. Do you suggest we move it to the kitchen whilst trying to sell? Just worried we haven't enough furniture to then fill the current dining area

I think the front of the house is the lead image isn't it @smalalalalalala ?

I wouldn't buy a house where I couldn't fit a table in the kitchen, so if you can show it

I wouldn't buy a house where I couldn't fit a table in the kitchen No, but I would, and did. We don't all want the same.

[quote PumpkinChai]@BenT99 could I please have specifics on what you'd change?

See posts above @Puzzledandpissedoff I don't think it does. BUT, its something we would consider changing as its something we always hated ourselves but never got round to doing - I'll look at selling some stuff and seeing if we can do it.

It can fit a table comfortably in the middle @Oopsiedaisyy so the EA said to market it like that. Just suits our living having it in the lounge. Do you suggest we move it to the kitchen whilst trying to sell? Just worried we haven't enough furniture to then fill the current dining area

I think the front of the house is the lead image isn't it @smalalalalalala ?[/quote]
It is now, it wasn't yesterday evening. Then the nice kitchen photos, order is right, kind of funny because even if I had seen the same photos, now ot would definitely make it to my list of house to view.

How bizarre, I wonder how that happened @smalalalalalala ? I'm the same as your partner, always suspicious when the front of the house isn't the first image too!

Their downstairs toilet comes straight off their kitchen

Good grief I believe they've eased the rules now if there's a sink in there as well, but at one time that would have been completely against building regs

And a good thing too ...

The building regs for toilets off kitchens was silly though. The rule was that there had to be two doors between kitchen and toilet and I saw a house that was signed off as compliant where there were literally two doors with half an inch air gap between them. Utter waste of resources building it and no evidence whatsoever that the regulations had any positive impact on public health. Having toilets adequately ventilated and with sensible handwashing facilities has a much greater impact on health. Obviously it is nicer to have the toilet further away from the kitchen but that's not always possible.