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What's wrong with this home listing?

106 replies

Goneback2school · 16/11/2021 15:13

I am in Ireland so the market is different but this house went up for sale nearly a month ago and there hasn't even been one enquiry or viewing. Is there anything that could/should be done to improve the ad and get someone interested in it?
www.daft.ie/for-sale/semi-detached-house-21-strawberry-hill-enniscorthy-co-wexford/3585313

OP posts:
BaronessEllarawrosaurus · 16/11/2021 15:53

The bedrooms appear small, beautiful house but I can't imagine how to fit bedroom furniture in plus the garden is slightly odd looking, what's going on at the end?

PatriciaHolm · 16/11/2021 15:58

No floor plan. The first pic of the front makes it look small, and almost like an odd extension of the attached house that has been hived off as a seperate house, which again a clear floor plan showing the space would help. At the moment it's impossible to visualise how it all flows. And the garden looks a very odd shape and the fish eye lens pic implies it's tiny and trickery has to be employed to improve it.

1forAll74 · 16/11/2021 15:59

What is the point in covering up things, as in a black sofa, and all things, Normal people are interested in room sizes, and decent looking kitchen units, and decent bathrooms etc, and maybe garden size etc. Normal people know that what a persons furniture and pictures on walls, and maybe a dog bowl on the floor etc, are not part of the sale, but can still envisage what it will look like, with their own stuff in it..

Must be too many people, who are into being nit picky about house buying, and maybe get odd ideas, from watching too many house buying TV programmes.

DGFB · 16/11/2021 16:01

Floor plan.
But the photos don’t put me off, it’s good to see the size of the rooms
It will sell.. probably at a lower price

peppersauce1984 · 16/11/2021 16:02

It looks nice from the outside but needs mew kitchen and bathroom. Garden is tiny and overlooked. I think if it were dressed it would make it feel warmer and cosier.

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 16/11/2021 16:02

I can't work out where everything is relative to everything else from the photos — a floor plan would definitely help.

RatherBeRiding · 16/11/2021 16:02

Price. It always is. The house is fine - looks clean and airy. The garden is very small but if that's the norm in that area then that won't put people off. Could do with a floorplan and street view but pound to a penny it's the price.

PurBal · 16/11/2021 16:04

It looks like student digs

PostcodeJack · 16/11/2021 16:07

Floorplan and better photos are needed - I think it looks quite nice but I am trying to visualise a room from shit photos which I could better imagine with a floorplan

The empty rooms don't help

WonderfulYou · 16/11/2021 16:08

It looks quite small from the first picture.
I would have taken the photo more straight on so you can’t see the houses in the back and the front looks wider..

RallySooney · 16/11/2021 16:08

Definitely price. I like Enniscorthy, but, prossibly the area, bringing us back round to the price.

diddl · 16/11/2021 16:13

No floor plan, plus I wouldn't want the furniture or the shed!

Wexone · 16/11/2021 16:21

know the area and its defo the price. Friends recently got their house valued down the road, only a bit smaller and it was for 40k less You need to dress the rooms, people cant see how their furniture fit. Needs a floor plan too. Have you gone to another estate agent for a second opinion? I would also say though aswell, the time of year is not when people look to move, they say more houses sell in spring towards sept. I was told always prepare your house to go on the market after St Patricks day

A580Hojas · 16/11/2021 16:21

I can't see anything wrong with it at all - it looks very nice. But I don't know the local market at all. The garden is an odd shape and the shed rather dominates but perhaps it's necessary because there is little storage room available in the house?

SoupDragon · 16/11/2021 16:27

@PurBal

It looks like student digs
You must have better student digs than I've seen via DSs 😂😂
RallySooney · 16/11/2021 16:28

@Wexone

know the area and its defo the price. Friends recently got their house valued down the road, only a bit smaller and it was for 40k less You need to dress the rooms, people cant see how their furniture fit. Needs a floor plan too. Have you gone to another estate agent for a second opinion? I would also say though aswell, the time of year is not when people look to move, they say more houses sell in spring towards sept. I was told always prepare your house to go on the market after St Patricks day
In Ireland we're getting a bum deal with housing. This kind of house in this area should be 40-50K cheaper and to be honest even then it's not a good price.

Greedy estate agents always pushing the prices if they can.

ShrinkingViolet9 · 16/11/2021 16:30

@Seainasive

Oil fired heating would put me right off! An is there a reason the attic room can’t be listed as a bedroom? Details say 3 bathrooms but there is only a picture of one of them.
I don't think it does state three bathrooms. The description says one family bathroom and an ensuite.

Some of the bedrooms on the first floor have restricted height, as does the attic/loft room. Perhaps the loft room does not meet building regulations for use as a bedroom and is therefore described as suitable for use as an office or playroom.

The metal shed is not a thing of beauty. Oil fired heating is expensive but otherwise, it looks an attractive home. Not keen on parking area right in front of house (which I am assuming it is). Unclear what the paved and caged area is at the end of the garden. Maybe take down the metal barrier things and put pots of colourful winter flowering plants on it.

SageRosemary · 16/11/2021 16:31

A major flaw in the Estate Agent's blurb suggests the house is in Enniscorthy. The map suggests the house is located in Bunclody! One of them is right. If the house is located in Bunclody then you should request the EA to change the listing - otherwise people seeking to purchase locally in Bunclody may not even stumble across the listing.

The house looks to be very well maintained but rather impersonal, yes, I know we are supposed to de-personalise for selling purposes but this looks to have been taken to the extreme.

The kitchen/diner looks to be a fine kitchen/from the photos. On the other hand the photos of the living room make it look like a waiting room. I'd change the large sofa to put it across the window, and scatter the remaining chairs around the room in a more sitting room less waiting room feel. Maybe even take one of the sofas away, scatter a couple of colourful cushions and a throw.

As other posters have mentioned, it's hard to get a sense of feel for the bedrooms and how they might accommodate a bed/desk. Why is the master bedroom not listed first?

Houses near us in Ireland are selling very fast and for way over asking price in most cases (often + 20%/25%).

Get the address listing corrected either way, the talk to your EA about advertising if necessary. You can pay to pop up first on DAFT or you could advertise in the property section of your local newspaper.

I don't know either Enniscorthy or Bunclody but a house at this price near me would be snapped up in minutes at that price.

I also wonder did anyone mistakenly read the €20.00 Resident's Association annual charge as €2,000. Perhaps the ES could amend it to read €20 !!

Disfordarkchocolate · 16/11/2021 16:31

It will be the price.

I'd be put off by the lack of warmth and the fact that there was no fence between the front garden and the public path

Neither would stop me viewing but the price night.

Flubber88 · 16/11/2021 16:31

I am from England but I've owned a property in Ireland for over 15 years and did a lot of viewings and searching beforehand in several different counties. I would echo others here that a floor plan is needed.

The house looks clean and fresh and it may be worth just adding a few splashes of colour to the bathroom and kitchen in the way of a couple of bright props such as kettle, flowers or bathmat, that kind of thing, I appreciate the hassle it would be getting beds in the stage the house and the lack of them doesn't put me off if the floor plan was present. It states 3 bathrooms but I can only see one here...?

The space you have in the loft is brilliant. Oil heating for those who do not know is extremely common in Ireland and would not put me off my house is the same. The price to me seems fine (esp as it is on the lower band of the property tax bracket that came in last week)!

I would echo others that the sofa is rather dominating in that room, also speaking from personal experience when I purchased my property it was furnished and I had to spend a lot of money/time getting rid of all the unwanted furniture. I had no choice as the previous owners had moved abroad never to return but you may want to put the option of purchasing the sofa for a token price. It may seem a silly point in the great scheme of the house but immediately I was thinking heck I've got to re-home that rather big sofa.

I was in the same position as you many years ago, put my house on with one agent and just nitto. To be honest I do not think the agent was interested from to get-go. I changed agents - new photos, write up, sold in two weeks! I'd give your agent a little longer and then consider getting a fresh eye on it.

diddl · 16/11/2021 16:33

Why are you leaving furniture Op?

Surely that is extra work for a buyer to get rid of it?

2bazookas · 16/11/2021 16:35

I would check for yourself, in person, that the agent is advertising it (wherever they said in your contract; online, website, in their window) ; that they have actually produced the sales brochure and if its available in their offices' and being pushed to enquirers who are looking in the area.

In the past I've sacked estate agents for lying through their teeth about their entirely imaginary sales advertising.

3catsandcounting · 16/11/2021 16:35

The first part of the description says 3 bed
3 bath. Is that main, en-suite and maybe a
cloakroom downstairs? Doesn't help that only one bathroom is shown.
I've been in enough student digs to completely disagree with PPs comment. It's fine, just needs some staging and a floorplan.

HeronLanyon · 16/11/2021 16:41

I personally love an empty property - saves filtering out owners’ stuff much easier to see what you’ve got to work with.
My immediate thoughts were it is extremely overlooked and as a corner omit I’d be worried about security so if I were looking in that area/price I’d wait until something less exposed came up.
Agree with pps if it’s priced to sell it will sell.
Good luck.

Caspianberg · 16/11/2021 16:42

No floor plan means I can’t see layout.

Also, are all the bedrooms in the article basically, so all restricted height? From the pictures it looks like. That would stop me looking