Does this house have kerb appeal?

[House7345]

Do you like the look of this house?

If not how could I be improved?

Also does the back garden look small? Its north facing so I'm wary.

What are your thoughts?

It’s a personal choice, but it doesn’t have appeal to me as I don’t like 80/90s style houses.

As for the house.l. I’m not sure it appeals to me. No windows along the side, and the front kind of reminds me of the Amityville Horror house 😬

I think it does have kerb appeal. The garden's not tiny - you could make it nice.

I can never understand the "north facing" thing. It seems to be the absolutely unshakeable criterium for a house that may never ever happen.

Even though, by definition, if some houses are south-facing, some must be north-facing.

Still, my last house was north-facing and we did manage to sell it quite quickly so maybe not everyone cares.

I agree with pps, leasehold is the biggie here. Bargepoles come to mind.

@DataColour

A significant proportion of not most houses in the north west are leasehold. Some, like ours are on 999yr leases (peppercorn rent, around £5 a year), so it's not really a problem.

Good point actually. I found the first house I ever lived in (in Lancashire, well Greater Manchester) and it is leasehold. Anything new-build though - definitely bargepole time.

Leasehold, no way would I buy it!

Hi Op first glance to create kerb side appeal you really need to have medium or big nice colour pot plants containers both sides of your front door, and to have a hanging baskets.
To definately spruce up,trim back Big Bush, do you know of anybody good at Topiary?if its reasonable price cheap not expensive,why not try this or have a go yourself if you good with hands sculpturing things.

That it's leasehold would be enough to put me off.

It's a bit of a legal scam.

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Don't necessarily worry about all the people saying leasehold is a problem, OP. You need to see the lease to know if that's true or not. The problem leases are only a very small proportion of the total. Many leases are perfectly reasonable.

My house is leasehold. It's a 999 year lease, the rent is £5 a year, no one knows where the landlord is so we don't have to pay it and there are no restrictions in the lease - we don't have to ask permission to do anything (even if we did know where the landlord was!)

Hi Op Also at back of your house,need to trim back bushes, to make back of house more acctractive to sow put grass seedlings in as your garden looks care worn untidy.
Also acctractive eco friendly garden lights if poss, in back garden and a acctractive garden sculpture fountain..

Leasehold on a house? No thank you.
I would also avoid a north facing back garden unless it was very big and had an open aspect. Neither of which, this house has.

Plus it needs everything doing. Only cosmetic but even so, it won’t be cheap.

The wooden fake beams need redoing on the front.
That big conifer needs to go.
New carpets all the way through.
Smooth out the artex ceilings (or is it wallpaper? It looks like peeling paper in one pic)
Strip the walls/redecorate every room
New kitchen
New shower room and replace the weird ceiling in there
Rip out that fitted bedroom
Replace and redo pink bathroom
Seriously reduce the height of the shrubs in the back garden and plant it up with appropriate plants so that it isn’t just sad grass and a massive hedge.

It's a look of the house from amitville horror.

Personally
Zero kerb appeal
But that is NOT to say it’s not a nice property

Just no appeal at all to ME

I'm irrationally angry that the upstairs has a window of 2 when all the others are 3.

Otherwise it looks a good size, well kept. I'd look inside

Not RTFT. It's a No. Leasehold.

@Stringervest

Don't necessarily worry about all the people saying leasehold is a problem, OP. You need to see the lease to know if that's true or not. The problem leases are only a very small proportion of the total. Many leases are perfectly reasonable.

My house is leasehold. It's a 999 year lease, the rent is £5 a year, no one knows where the landlord is so we don't have to pay it and there are no restrictions in the lease - we don't have to ask permission to do anything (even if we did know where the landlord was!)

That fact you have no idea where the landlord is... is a worry in itself for me!

I hate open plan kitchens. Kitchen smells should stay in the kitchen.

@Jroseforever why would I need to know?!

If you ever wanted to sell

You don’t know where your landlord is.
You can’t sell

I don't think it's got kerb appeal at all particularly with the horrible shaped roof.
I would always avoid leasehold.
It obviously needs updating (everywhere).
It's got that horrible dark brown 1990's stain everywhere. You can get rid of it - but it's a lot of work.
Basically it needs totally gutting.

@Jroseforever that's incorrect.

It's a remarkably unattractive house - just the shape of it, the roof, the windows, the colour of the brick, all of it. 315 may seem cheap for a 4 bed detached but you'll need to spend another 25-50k on kitchen, bath, wardrobe, and redecorating throughout. Will probably need a new boiler and even a re-wire if all that, like the rest of the house, hasn't been touched in 35 years.

I wouldn't have that house for free.

I think if you have a good chunk of money to do it up, you could make it nice, but I don't know the value of the property up there (except you get WAY more for your money there! You could get a run down 2bed here for that. No garage, even smaller garden (if any).

You'd realky need to consider whether it's worth spending that much money on.

I'd take all the walks out downstairs (except for the toilet obviously!) and put in a lovely kitchen & the utility stuff behind big bifolds

The garden isn't huge, but it depends what you want to use it for.

It depends how fussy you are. If I bought this, which I would fairly happily, I wouldn't feel the need to gut everything. I'd put some nice rugs down and loads of nice pictures on the walls, and plant some trees around the edge of the garden, for a nice semi-private space with lots of green. Job done.

Have you realised it's leasehold OP ? I wouldn't touch it fir that alone