Why am I not getting viewings please?

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Can you see any reason why I am not getting any interest on my house?

post edited by MNHQ

I've seen it said on here before that townhouses are considered niche so people aren't so keen to view.

It looks gorgeous though!

I'm afraid I do not know area for pricing - but your photos look very good so I have no answer for you.

It looks clean, well presented and homely, so on the face of it, it seems fine. I'm not sure about the price, as I don't know the area.

With 2 DC under 4, I wouldn't personally choose a terraced townhouse with a steep sloping garden, so it may be that there is less of a market for people who don't mind all those factors.

It may take some time, however someone will buy it at some point, so don't give up hope just get.

I'd maybe consider swapping the order of the photos so the kitchen appears before the utility.
It was only when I reached the kitchen photos I wondered if you had two kitchens! Then spotted utility on the floorplan.
I probably wouldn't swipe through 29 photos of I didn't see great things within the first 10.

@LeslieYep good point. We tried to put it in order of what you see when you enter so laundry then up to lounge, kitchen etc. Would you suggest lounge kitchen bedrooms loft and laundry last before garden?

Yes I’d swap the order of photos so that the utility comes after the kitchen photos - some people might see a small “kitchen” and move on without realising! I’d remove the photo of the fake grass too and just leave the other garden photos, they are much nicer and don’t highlight the steepest part of the garden. Maybe some better photos of the bedrooms too, they look a little narrow.

It looks like a nice house!

If I had to be critical:
Very annoying to read the Estate Agent WRITING EVERY WORD IN UPPER CASE.

The outside pic should go first.

I don’t like that your neighbours bins are right at your door... for me it makes neighbours seem like they’d be annoying - I know this is completely ridiculous and unfair of me!

I think you should drop the utility room pictures, or move them until after the kitchen photos - someone skipping through quickly might think that’s your kitchen.

Your house is well presented and smart for the photos. There isn’t anything obvious you need to change as it’s tidy and clean.

I would say you have too many photos though, some duplicates. I agree kitchen photos before utility (and does utility need more than one photo?). I don’t know pricing in the area, I’d agree that it’s possibly the lack of usable lawn putting off family buyers, it does take a bit longer for the right niche buyer to come.

I honestly thought your utility was your kitchen before I moved on.

Your bedrooms all look cramped in the photos. No dimensions anywhere so I can't tell whether this is just bad camera angles or not.

I must live in a niche area cos about 80% of the houses are townhouses! They are super popular where we are.. 🤷🏼‍♀️ That said, they are all ‘new build townhouses’ ranging from 0-15 years old. The desirable, cute little village I grew up in has had an enormous expansion over those years.

Your house looks good. Smart, practical, loved. Looks like you’ve smartened it up a lot compared to surrounding houses. I do find ads that don’t have the house as the first picture offputting though. I instantly assume the house doesn’t have much curb appeal.. yours isn’t the prettiest house but it’s in keeping with the area 🤷🏼‍♀️

Any idea how your area has been in general recently? When we marketed in August, I watched houses fly off the sleeves & so did ours. However, the last month or so the whole area has ground to a halt. Houses have been sat on Rightmove for ages. All price ranges. We are in tier2, I don’t know if it’s putting people off?!

What made you fall in love with the house? Maybe you can really, really push that point.

I have to ask - is it not a massive ball ache to walk in your front door but then have to walk up a hallway then also up a flight of stairs every single time?

It’s a nice family house but the garden is not really usable

The angle of the loft room picture makes it look like the ceiling is barely 5 foot high so an adult wouldn’t be able to stand up in it.

The lack of dining space in a decent sided house like that would also bother me, particularly given the kitchen looks big and the utility is huge. Can you fit a small table and chairs in the kitchen? If not, maybe turn the Dining table in the lounge round and move it closer to the wall instead of so close to the fireplace.

Here is what I thought - I turned myself into someone looking at that price in that area
Quite gray.
Sloping garden.
Wardrobes in bedroom would need to come out.
Vertical blinds - a personal thing but I find them very depressing and give everything a struggling 1980s office feel. They affected my feeling about the house.
Good luck - you’ve done a lot and it’s in good nick !

As others have said reorder the pictures. I would make the attic room look more like a used space - dress it up a bit.

This sounds harsh but the shiny wallpaper would put me off! If there are lots for sale that are more neutral people
May opt for them.

I think it looks a bit cold

I think you have too many photos - you have left nothing for a viewing!

Also, I would hate having the neighbours bins right next to my front door as well (not sure why, maybe worried about the smell / flies in the summer - just seems a little disrespectful to leave all your rubbish right by someone’s front door!)

I would always put a picture of the front of the house first.

Otherwise your house is lovely!

Good luck in selling! Hope you get some viewings soon!

the utility photos confused me, couldnt work out why you didn't have an oven / hob in there till I realised it was the utility

there are no room dimensions, it would put me off looking as I cant tell how big the rooms are and some of the bedrooms look cramped

Also the cabin bed makes the room look smaller - could you swap for a single whilst selling?

I'd put picture 3 first. I'm instantly suspicious when the outside of a house isn't the first photo. Then I'd tell the estate agent to get rid of the caps lock writing and the asterisks. They really should know better - it makes it so hard to read, and I gave up part way through.

Your could halve the number of photos, that would be sufficient. Completely agree about moving the utility room photo, I also assumed it was your kitchen. One other thing - there's an awful lot of grey, which can make a house look very uninviting, especially at this time of year. Some colour in the house, and in the garden would really brighten things up.

Hi, lovely house but terrible pictures. Bad estate agent job. When you scroll through, the utility room comes up before the kitchen. I would have assumed that was the kitchen and moved on. Your kitchen is lovely, it really should be the first photo. The external photo of the house is also poor. They have taken the houses either side too, which makes yours look smaller. It's ok to show that the house is a terrace, but not to show the whole of the houses either side. Especially when next door have their 3 or 4 bins out. The estate agent should have edited them out at the very least. The garden photo is also very poor. Taken from a bad angle. The first shot, showing a slope, actually didn't need to be shown at all, they should have taken a distance shot. All in all, your estate agents have just taken the shots themselves, rather than used a professional photographer. I might be wrong but that's what it looks like. A good estate agent may charge you £100 or so for the professional photographer ( I'm in London and that's how much they charged me). Worth every penny.. xxx

Good pics, nice clear rooms. I don’t know the area to comment on price, sorry.
All this considered, I would automatically discount a townhouse.

Apologies, I can see others have already said the same as me, sorry for repeating! Don't you be scared to get to the estate agents around again, they charge a fortune....

Look nice, but to me

1, next doors bins are out, there’s 4, so that means I assume storing them in the garage or leaving them out front as neighbours have done, and if in the garage can you get a car in?
2, personal preference I don’t like the downstairs toilet being on the ground floor, so if in the lounge you have to go either upstairs or downstairs, so no real point

1. Personal preference, do t like a three floor property, (well four really) having to go down two flights to the washing machine in the utility room

4 I don’t like to sloped garden

1. How big is the second bedroom? It doesn’t look very big on the floor plan

If you look in that price range at properties in your area, are they comparable?

It looks v close to the motorway on the map. That may knock it down in what people would be prepared to pay.