Where can I share my Zoopla/Rightmove house advertisement link to get more viewings?

[blakeex]

Hi I desperately need to sell my house.
I had already instructed a local estate agent to put the house on the market.
For the past few weeks, we had around less than 10 viewings & no offers have been made so far.

The feedback given is the second bedroom is too small but we cannot change the house structure anymore.

There are several properties on sale in our area and I want to post my house advertisement link in other properties forum to get more audience & hopefully convert online audients into viewings.

Is there any property forum I could post my house advertisement?
Thanks.

Your garden looks bleak.
Pressure wash the slabs
Dress the area (no need for massive expense. A small bistro set with a styled cafetiare and piece of cake in table will do!)

The market shows several end of terrace homes with garages and better gardens for the same price. I think your market is saturated with similar properties. Yours also needs a new bathroom and kitchen, so I wouldn't say it's turnkey ready.

Prices for sales In December 23 are also not good to gauge prices for now....

I bought my house after seeing it on Rightmove, which published 24 hours before the local property newspaper. We had the first viewing and put in an offer that day. The vendor said once the paper came out the phone was ringing non stop for weeks.

If it hasn’t had much interest on Rightmove/Zoopla/estate agents then its not the right house for a lot of people. Prices in our area have fallen massively this years so that could be a factor and bigger houses are moving fast. A two bed with one of them quite small would be hard to shift.

The others seem to be end terraces or semis which usually carry a premium (about 50k in our area for similar priced properties).

The feedback given is the second bedroom is too small but we cannot change the house structure anymore

Feedback like that means: "for the price this property is listed at we were expecting a larger second bedroom."

It looks very clean and tidy inside but also looks more cramped and lacking space than it perhaps is in reality.

You need to get rid of the shoe shelves, whatever that thing is in front of them, the exercise machine needs to go, the bedrooms need to have beds in, and the desk and office chair need to go from the lounge/diner. Towels and stuff in the bathroom would brighten it up. If you must have office space then use the middle sized bedroom and dress the smallest as a bedroom (most people make the smallest room an office and some viewers won't have the imagination to see how the space can be used as a bedroom!). And the garden needs some furniture and colour.

You need some bedding plants in pots and a bit of colour. The outside shot should be first and it's not that ugly, just needs a bit of a tidy up.

The bedrooms need to be bedrooms. Is the futon room the smallest? Put the desk in there and dress the bigger of the two as a bedroom.

The first impression currently is a shoe rack which says 'no space or storage'.

The main things are fine but the photos really don't make it look appealing.

I agree
skip and move on

I’ve just looked at the ad (Thank you, OP) and I’m sorry to say, its overpriced in my opinion, but I live in a much cheaper and extremely rural area so I’m willing to accept I could be wrong about that. I believe Redhill is very popular and that others are correct when they say its on at the going rate.

My main take is that it looks very cramped, particularly upstairs. In the past I’ve found making my spare room look like a child’s room has worked well to sell a house before now. You have to remember that potential buyers have no imagination when it comes to what each room could be used for.

If you’re on Rightmove/Zoopla/Local estate agents and it goes in the physical property pages I don’t think advertising it on other websites will help.

It is tidy but you are going to have to hide some of your stuff to give a sense of space and that you have not outgrown the house. I remember having a car boot full of stuff during viewings when we were selling our previous house. I used to dismantle my ikea desk in the box and hide it behind the door to ensure buyers would see it as a bedroom; if they did look behind the door, it looked like a very tall chest of drawers.

You're priced at the same price as a lot of end terrace houses that appear to have more up to date bathrooms and better proportioned bedrooms.

End terrace is more desirable easily by 10% of property value. If I had a choice of 2 identical houses, for the same price in close proximity, I'd pick the end terrace. In fact I'd pay more.

I agree with the others - you’ve got too much stuff in there that makes the house look small. All the exercise stuff needs to be taken out of the photos, and the downstairs office set-up. The house needs to look like a place where people can leave work and the gym behind!

It's price isn't it?

When people say stuff like 'too small bedroom' or 'too small garden' or other comments they really mean 'too small bedroom for the price'.

There are semi-detacheds which are cheaper, and a 4-bed semi is £25k more.

There is even one on the same street for £25k more but that is end of terrace, has a front porch and outbuilding in the garden.

Why would anyone buy yours over that one? If there is a reason then it might be better to either include that in the advert.

If you need a quick sale, you need to reduce the price. That's it really.

You’ll be up against this time of thing - end of terrace, bigger rooms, pretty garden, workshop etc.

House

I think you need to reduce the price further.

Love that one!

It is always going to be a compromise house (would that design, age , construction be the 1st choice) and in a compromise location (many people move there as they cant afford to buy in their preferred location)

In a buoyant market then people will make compromises to own but at the moment there is market uncertainty and a lot of choice (beyond that area- other slightly out of reach areas previously may now be affordable and loads of new commutable housing being built)

So it comes down to price.

For another 25k I could buy the semi detached with a nice garden

I don't know the area but it seems overpriced

You bought it in 2017 for £347k. The general election is causing a "waiting effect" in the market, so you could wait that out (although housing policies won't be immediately forthcoming so how long do you want to wait?)

You can de-clutter etc, and on quick closer look there are even maintenance issues you can "disguise" (eg rear fascia, but they'll come up on a survey anyway) but at the end of the day there are only two things that determine your sold price i.e. the real market value, and that's location and price. You can't change your location but you can change your price.

Your listing price is not the real market value of your house. In the current market, agents will be pricing to list, not pricing to sell and it's reflected in the lack of offers. Agents want to sell for their commission of course, but first they need your listing to sell, so they are competing against other agents and will rely on selling you reductions.

As the market is dire, they will also be sending anyone who wants to view. This is different to the peak where buyers were outstripping sellers, viewers didn't need to be screened as they should be. Now you are getting what we called "tyre kickers" viewing, as the agents want to look proactive. A good agent should screen for proceedability, current situation etc and weed out things like sheer nosiness, speculation and people thinking about selling and using yours as a barometer. Now they just want to get people through your door so they can say they've arranged viewings and they're doing their job etc.

No viewings = it's obvious immediately that price is too high. Some viewings but no offers = price is too high. Some offers, but you think they're too low = price is too high for the current market.

The market is currently in a state of flux. If you want to wait it out, cost out your costs in staying for xxx months versus taking a hit now and selling what you will see as too low a price. Sometimes the costs of waiting are actually higher, if that makes sense?

Not surprised you're not getting many viewings. Although ten serious viewings wouldn't be bad going. No offers just means that it's not living up to expectations created by the online listing, which is poor:

1. No floorplan on the listing. This is a must.
2. The house is presented as being too small. It's clean but cluttered, every room appears to be doing double or triple duty to make up for the lack of space.
3. The living/dining room is a presentation disaster - is it a dining room, a gym, a living room, or an office? Get the treadmill and the desk out of there, and take the shoes out of the shot.
4. House has been cleaned spotlessly, it's a shame no attention was given to the front garden and path. A couple of hours with a pressure washer would make a huge difference to the slabs front and back.
5. Yes, the secondary bedrooms are small. They look tiny on the photo and without a floorplan there's nothing to gainsay this.

Re-do the listing and try again.

Hi OP

Your house is immaculate, clean and fresh looking.

V much agree with PP about removing treadmill, desk in lounge, weights and shoe rack. They only serve to let buyers know the house is missing space for them.

Also agree about jetwashing the patio. I do ours and it’s amazing how much brighter it looks afterwards.

There is a floor plan!

Looking again, this is almost identical to a friend's house. Except she has one large bedroom instead of the two mall ones you have. Do is essentially the same size as a 2 bed as neither of those rooms are a double and the downstairs proportions are very 2 bed too. So definitely price. You can't expect this to compete with any other properly proportioned 3 bed.

Thanks, that wasn't showing for me when I first looked.

Looks like there's a decent 2-bed hiding in that layout if you take out the wall and turn the 2 small bedrooms into a well sized master bedroom.

Agreed if you look at these two property images and floor plan I’m going to this one that looks bright and uncluttered with a better garden.

It’s your price and as others have said get rid of the shoes, exercise equipment, and clutter. Can you get better photos of the kitchen as that one makes it look tiny with an oversized fridge