Why can't we sell our house?

[Pentiumgold]

Please see attached link, reduced by £20 last week but still no interest. What puts you off our house? I found this property on the Rightmove Android app and wanted you to see it: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/121091351

Ceilings not low!! What an odd comment. We are are a super tall family

That was my first thought. The angle the photographer has taken the pictures make the ceilings look like they have been lowered.

The open conservatory would put me off. I’d basically assume that most of downstairs would never be a comfortable temperature and that you don’t have building regs for it. That and the bedrooms being small. I don’t think the photos are terrible or anything, you probably just need to reduce the price.

Its modern meets old in places and I think viewers find that confusing. A lovely uber modern kitchen then a squashed old fashioned dining tabke squashed up to the wall.

Also agree with pp about the consvertory set of drawers.

It does also look like 2 box rooms from floor plan.

Honestly? Outside stone work is filthy and needs a good power wash two of the bedrooms look cluttered, the main bathroom looks dated and in need of replacement, and you’ve really went for it in embracing grey and the kitchen looks lovely and new but as grey is so over, it’s quite naff so hard to justify changing it.

So I think you need to clean up outside, de clutter what I think are the kids bedrooms and drop the price some.

In what universe are the ceilings low?

Admittedly not in mine but I can see where the pp gets it from, the pictures all include a lot of ceiling. The pictures are very poor.

Currently house hunting for a 4 bed.
Things Id question:
The kitchen looks dark
There is no garage - we actually put a car in the garage, but might be the only household left in the country that does!
I cant work out the garden.
Took me a while to work out the "bin" hanging from the kitchen ceiling was an extractor fan. Is there a different angle?
Bedrooms look small.

There is a vast expanse of hard surfaces at the front. Can you green it up a bit?

Can I ask, what is the metal structure on your decking? Is it some form of gazebo where you haven’t bothered to take down the structure but removed the tarpaulin?

I agree with PP that the pictures are awful and you need new ones!!! The first picture of the house lacks curb appeal, it looks a little 'drab' and the bedrooms/bathrooms need de-cluttering and beds made. The photos should sell your house for you and give the initial great first impression to entice potential buyers to view the property.

Have a look at the nearby sold prices on your listing, I know house prices are higher at the moment than previous years but IMO your priced a little high and the following points would make me offer under the asking price if I were a buyer:
-The main bathroom IMO is in need of an update which could cost between £5k-£10 -The garden, although as you say is big, is mix-matched (patio, decking (looks a little grubby) and false turf) again IMO the patio and decking should match/flow and the overall garden doesn't 'seem' to be welcoming and somewhere to relax, so to update the garden would be another approx £5k.
-As another PP suggested, the glass conservatory roof would put me off, boiling in the summer, freezing in the winter so again another £10K to update the roof

• security...... you've converted the garage into storage and an office which leads through into the house. I'd be concerned about the garage door being opened and anyone having access into the house, unless the door from the storage into the office is an 'external' door?

Wow, loads of good advice on here OP. I'll add my points:

The front elevation looks dirty to me, it needs a repaint.
The grey kitchen cupboards look too dark & grey as a colour has been done to death in recent years.
The kitchen ceiling extractor is visually ugly.
Too much grey decor & furniture in front room & hall.
The granny sofa in the sunlounge is hideous, ditto the vertical blinds.
Upstairs, that black wardrobe is slightly too big for the space & a visual eyesore.
The eaves bedroom needs a total declutter & the bed made nicely.
The black blind in bedroom 2 is horrible & this room needs decluttering too.
The bathroom is very dated & needs replacing & decluttering.
Remove all crap (preferably into storage) off the patio & jetwash
Put sunshade cover on metal frame or take frame down completely
Decking always makes me think what are you hiding underneath it?

Why is the front render SO dirty?

It’s the price. People will tell you to power hose the drive and paint the room and de clutter - and yes all those things matter. But if you aren’t getting viewings it’s over priced

Either spend money on it to make it worth the price or drop the price.

Few of any episodes commenting. Know the market in your area. Ask your estate agent - they know best

Too much grey in the kitchen and it looks so dark. Even some colour accessories would make it look more inviting.
The bedroom with the Moon thing looks like that sloping wall is towering over you and crushing you down! It might be an optical illusion but it looks freaky (to me). Tidying that room and getting rid of everything round that window would help.
The front of the house looks dirty, and the patio looks dirty and so not appealing.
There’s a strange metal frame thing in the garden and that looks out of place and not nice. You say the garden is big but the photos of it aren’t good.
I’m sure with a few changes and some better photos, you’d get some interest - good luck 😊

The garden would rule it out for me. I don’t know if the kitchen’s dark but it looks it in the photos. The bathroom needs replacing. I wouldn’t view it.

It's the outside for me. It would look so much better painted white with some beautiful hanging baskets and large pots such as bay trees around the door

I'd get the first photo retaken at a slight angle, not face on, and much closer.
Get rid of photo 14. The last one is of the same are and looks much better.
It does feel quite dark inside.
The other thing that might stop people wanting to view, which you can't help, is the side wall of the house next door. My friends are moving from their house in the next year partly because of this issue.
It does seems to be an okay price for the area. The one at the old brewery is on for the same and seems to have much less space, and a townhouse layout which I hate.

Definitely agree with the pricing at £455k, you'll miss out on loads of traffic if you'd be at all open to accepting an offer at £450k. I'm convinced we only got our house as it was listed really over-optimistically at £495k (at the vendor's insistance) and when we offered £450k the agent advised the vendor that no one else would offer any more than that. If they'd listed the house for what it was worth in the first place I'm convinced we'd have ended up in a bidding war.

Personally... I hate "OIEO" properties as you always feel like the vendor has a figure in their head that they'd accept and you have to guess it. Out of interest OP what offers would you consider?

And this might be pedantic but maybe rephrase the wording the agent has used. No one wants to read "deceptively modern" in the first sentence, doesn't really sell your house!

Probably already covered but...

• that first photo does nothing for you. Too much expanse of tarmac and the house looks like it needs a good pressure wash
• wide angle lens and your dining table, wedged up against the wall gives the impression the space is cramped and the kitchen feels dark
• you don't have to use every picture. You are just trying to attract people through the door. Only show the kitchen looking towards the light. Don't use the hall picture, don't show the expanse of floor where the dining table would blatantly normally be, don't show the cluttered bedroom with the dormer, don't show the dated bathroom full of random bottles of toiletries
• externally, it's really odd you have a mix of pictures of damp dirty slabs with the washing line at the centre and bright sunny ones. Just use the sunny ones of the grass and conservatory exterior

It looks very dark. And like there's not much storage

You need to get better photographs, they make the rooms look tiny and the outside uninviting.

Personally the converted garage puts me off completely.

Isn't this really similar to a post last night, someone else wondering why her house wouldn't sell? Both in Dorset if i remember correctly!

Yes but that has been deleted for privacy concerns.

I take back the comment about price. These are under offer and on for much less for what appears to be offering much more

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/81961596#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media0&ref=photoCollage

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/110789732#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media0&ref=photoCollage

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120842588#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media0&ref=photoCollage

If you wish to know why I’d not view, and I wouldn’t, it would be the dirty render at the front, it would give me concern, something was structurally wrong and it may have damp, the grey kitchen, it’s too new to rip out but I couldn’t live with it, and the cramped bedrooms.

I can power wash the outside stonework and decking, replace the bathroom, repaint the living room, but for that price I’d not be game foe fixing rhe rendering and what was causing the dirt, replacing the kitchen and I’d be looking for bigger bedrooms without the sloped ceiling.

So I think you need to drop the price to compensate.

I don't think the freehold/leasehold thing is standard, I bought not that long ago and I've never seen that before.

I've also just searched for similar properties within 5 miles of OP and they all said "Tenure: Freehold"

So it may be common in some areas, but it looks like OPs direct competition don't have that statement. Which makes it look like there is something unusual going on.

Change estate agents. This is their job, they should really know this stuff.

The price should be at the correct band for searches on Rightmove.
All the text has to be spot on.
Depersonalise the rooms. Photos of the garden are confusing.

I think the kitchen looks dark (camera is focusing on the light from the conservatory) and yes, looks to be low ceilings. Your dining room prints are only just below the ceiling, the hallway mirror touches the cornice, the slope in the first bedroom pic. When you look properly you can see the gap above door frames but those other things are drawing your attention to it at first glance.