Do I need to drop price again and when?

[crackthegg]

House went on 5 weeks ago. Several cancellations. Handful of viewings and no offers.

Dropped 10K from 230K last week.

Lots of houses being reduced in the area.
House over the road was dropped from 215K to 209K and gas say there since November.
Mine has an extension and is quite a lot bigger.
Should I drop again and by how much?

Will it look desperate if I drop again in the next week or so?

It may look a bit expensive looking at sold properties & interest rate changes

It's difficult getting workmen out to do these jobs as well.
Agree, power clean is a good idea.
I have got ornaments and flowers now in the front.

Photo 11. WTF were you thinking? 😂
It's so bad it's almost a classic of everything you could do with a property photo to put a viewer off an entire property! Get them redone, stage the house to look less clinical, engage the services of a stunt pineapple.
(also, plastic grass ick)

Do you feel better now?

Power clean yourself you can hire

and buy some hanging baskets pronto

I'd actually closed both those doors. Photographer opened bathroom to take that. 🙁

It looks clean and uncluttered inside. The layout is a little hard to understand. There seems to be one large room downstairs with nothing in it - called dining room in the pictures, but it just seems to be lots of open space with no dining table.

Do people really buy a house based on hanging baskets? No amount of window dressing would make me overlook location, flow, size, aspect or cost!

Looks like a dentist. Warm it up a little!
good luck

You posted this before and were given lots of advice to move furniture etc into the rooms instead of big empty spaces. I think you should try that to make it look more homely, add flowers etc.

I wouldn't drop the price just yet,unless you're in a mad hurry. Nothing is really selling in my neck of the woods . If someone falls in love with it they will put in an offer.
Photos are fine in my opinion. Maybe some flowers or plants for curb appeal. Surely people can see pass the trampoline but if not,take it down?

Not really, but it helped.

What colour is it if it's not yellow coz that picture makes it look bright yellow! That's a picture I would expect the estate agents to mess with to make it look the right colour!

The massive room downstairs looks so empty and it makes it confusing as to what the space is for. Just looks like some kind of open unused hallway/open space to me. Perhaps you could put the dining table in the middle of it or something?

Also could you get rid of the trampoline? It's making your garden look tiny and without that it would look more spacious?

Proppy, I bought it with brown and orange walls. 😛

Oh we've seen this house before!

It's the kitchen, it really needs a new one and the odd downstairs layout. I'm not sure there's that much more that you can do with it that won't be really expensive so I'd just drop the price as low as you can possibly manage.

@DogInATent wow that's depressing!

If I was looking with this budget I would think it was a lovely light house that has been well maintained. The external facade wouldn't put me off and nor would any of the photos.

I wouldn't drop the price again yet. See if photos work first.

The market is slow right now. We have our first viewing tomorrow after 3 weeks and a price drop.

@crackthegg my first flat had woodchip everywhere 😭

Yes Tokyo, few weeks ago. Has lots of feedback. I dropped it 10K last Friday.
Think these photos really need redoing.

I'm half expecting you to come back in a week and say that the photographer has themselves put in a lowball offer - they've really not done you any favours. Opening that door was deliberate sabotage (as was catching the corner of the tumble dryer and making the sofa look like it's just staring at the wall).

I think the excess yellow on the front of the house may be from excessive use of an HDR filter set to 11. It's being over-applied to the views through windows as well, which gives an uncanny valley effect.

If you could declutter the garden (remove the trampoline) and add a little bit of life clutter to the interior then the property would look more attractive to someone wanting to live there.

Don't drop the price, adjust the presentation.

Personally I feel it looks unloved. Cold looking decor with wasted space. The kitchen would put me off too - odd looking handles for my tastes!

The garden is very off putting - remove the trampoline and the fakegrass is badly laid (i personally hate the stuff). And I agree the yellow is very odd.

Also why Is the sky photoshoped??? Would make me think what else has been done?

Thank you Nashville.

Yes, kitchen needs to be redone. I've contemplated replacing it but unsure whether to spend that money on it.
I probably should have done this before the garage.

But did you not go through the photos as part of approving the listing @crackthegg?

We've sold a few times and always go through the 'draft particulars' to check for spelling/grammatical errors and that we're happy with the photos. If there's anything amiss or that we think doesn't show the property in a good light we ask for it to be redone. It's one of the things you're paying the EA for.

In fact, on a couple of occasions we've got them to add one or two of our own photos to the listing - for example when we've listed in the Autumn or early spring so the EA pics don't show the garden at its best and we have supplied better ones from when everything is blooming!

It definitely looks rather clinical and unlived in - imho you need to move some of your furniture away from the edges of the rooms and get the photos redone. Add a bit of life/colour in the form of flowers, too.