Why has no one viewed my house?

[CinnamonSwirlLatte]

Previous marital home has been on Rightmove for a month. Thousands of clicks but not one viewing.

Already reduced by 15k.

I'd love to know what's going wrong - although it's going to be very difficult to amend/improve anything as my controlling ex husband lives there!

Thanks

4 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in Maple Avenue, Keelby, DN41 (rightmove.co.uk)

@CinnamonSwirlLatte

I’d ask estate agent to

1. do plan to scale if that will make bedroom 4 look bigger.

2. make bedroom labels bold/clearer/bigger

3. relabel playroom as playroom/bedroom 5 - or playroom/extra/spare bedroom

4. if you can get into house, push the twin beds together so there is room around them - in the big bedroom - and get it photographed again.

Dont you that as a problem if a lot of us couldn't see bedroom 4, stands to reason that alot of people won't see it either.

The layout of the twin room does it no favours. Can you move the beds to the widest part? That would help. The photos aren't great tbh

Photos aren't good , the pic with the 2 single beds prime example , could you remove one of the beds ?
Also agree with previous comment that it needs 'warming' up.
I think i would tidy the furthest corner of the garden as well, i like your house but one of my 1st thoughts is that i would need to spend money on the majority of the decor .

op it’s really easy to lighten the photos yourself and send them to purple bricks.

Those lightened photos look SO much better!

Bedroom 4 doesn’t meet the 2015 size recommendations for a bedroom (which is minimum 2.15 m wide and 7 m2).

You can tinker around with the photos and brighten them up, but you’d be better off getting a new set done if you can.

The first picture with the leather sofas would put me right off. I think a potential buyer can live with less than great bedrooms, you are not in them that long. A welcoming living area is apppealing.

Good Luck OP

Cluttered was perhaps the wrong word… the decor looks busy and dated to me. The wallpapers in particular

There's literally nothing in that post that is "snobby"

Well, ultimately the problem is that your ex doesn't want to sell and is sabotaging the process.

Bedroom 4 is literally TOO SMALL to legally call a bedroom. The measurements have it as 2.27x2.14 meters, which is less than 5 square metres. A bedroom legally needs to be 6.5 square metres for a single.

The playroom is awkwardly accessed for a bedroom - you have to go through first the kitchen, then the utility. Back through the utility to get to the loo in the night, and upstairs for the bathroom.

Photos are awful and make ALL the rooms look poky, even the ones which are a reasonable size.

Sadly it looks much less inviting than when you bought it - both indoor decor and the garden. (Although I love the bookcase wallpaper in the pink girl's bedroom and one of the bathrooms.) The previous sellers had a good idea getting a pic of the horse in the field to the rear.

And given all the above, it's overpriced, hence no one wanting to view.

It's not a beautiful garden. It needs work.
The front view of the house just looks bleak.
Lift that mat off the bathroom floor.
You have that odd shaped room. Get rid of one bed. Too cramped.
You have one of those old semi circular shower cabinets.
There's a great deal of wallpaper and things all over which requires a great deal of work to neutralise.

Get your husband to paint all the walls a neutral colour. Leave wallpaper.
Invest in a couple of plants for front door. Clean it up in general - the front door area.
Remove the photo of the garden that makes that corner look bad.
Put something on the beds to look less bleak.
The whole place just looks bleak. Sorry.

Op you sound incredibly strong and dealing admirably with a seriously shit situation (& man!). Is there still a mortgage on the house? I only ask because if you have a mortgage to pay off from the proceeds plus repay legal aid and your share of EA fees, is there going to be much left? I know the court has mandated you are entitled to x% but could he buy you out if you reduced this somewhat - you shouldn’t have to but to remove yourself from this stress and move on it might be worth taking the hit and he’ll feel like he’s won which will no doubt appeal to his vile nature.

Is he trying to block the sale?

Strange house shape.
Floor plan needs to be to scale.
Photos seem to be wide angle or something - they look weird..
Bedrooms look cramped.
The playroom is not a bedroom.
Garden is OK but needs tidying up.
Wallpaper is not to my taste.

It is less than 5 sqm

The order of the photos on the listing. I like to see all the photos of one room in order. Not living room, then kitchen, then living room again etc. It makes it difficult to get a proper idea of what the rooms are like.

People are being blunt on here because OP wants to know why they are getting no viewings on the house. The truth can hurt but at least she is getting honest feedback. The 4th “bedroom” is small enough that a lot of people won’t consider it suitable for a bedroom apart from for a small child. Maybe “cupboard” is a bit harsh but some of OPs target market may be thinking the same way hence no viewings. If they need 4 proper bedrooms they won’t view this house if there are better alternatives.

Personally, a room that size with a window I would consider to be nice for a study or nursery.

Totally unreasonable of you to have a house in that area OP 😂 I think that’s the problem. Location in the UK. Because here that would get snapped up!

I would market it as a 3 bed though, and have bedroom 4 as a study as it’s too small. Label the playroom as a dining room.

I beg your pardon? In fact the house I own was marketed as 4 bedrooms but in fact was 2 bedrooms and 2 cupboards. They were chancing. We offered a far lower price than they were asking for.
Edited to add: one of the "bedrooms " could not even fit a single bed in, and the other could fit a single bed and nothing else.

Agree the 4th bedroom seems to be scaled wrong and therefore looks tiddlier than it is. It’s also got the window at the wrong scale. Sure they could abbreviate to ‘Bed 4’ so that it’s clear on the floorplan.

The photos are pretty poor. Looks like they have a dirty camera lense.

All in all someone will need to have an imagination to buy this as it looks pretty gloomy in the main.

Have you got a solicitor OP? If so I’d be speaking to them and saying either he gets three valuations with you there, puts it on with a proper estate agency, considers reducing the price (depending on the valuations) gets decent photos abd a floor plan and accommodates all reasonable requests from you, or you are going to drag him back to court and get it put into the first available auction with a low reserve price.

No way would any court put up with this nonsense whilst you and multiple kids are renting. This is a situation where you just need to get it sold.

I think whomever is marketing it hasn't done you any favours with the photos. Everything is really dark (and yes, I know it's hard to find a day with sunshine, but you should try when you're trying to earn a commission, really!) and the angles are awful on a few of them. I agree with others that the bedroom with the two twin beds looks horrible to navigate in the current layout (but I bet this could be improved by moving furniture around), and the picture from the door of the bedroom with the high bed is actually doing the listing more harm than good tbh.

Back garden just looks like a massive project to get it into a decent place for kids to play, and I say that as someone whose own back garden is a complete tip 😆 At least mine is grass/ plant related mess. The one in the listing already tells me I'd need to hire someone with a skip to lift and clear away all that broken pavement.

I can see from your follow up comments that your ex is the one listing it. Honestly, it gives the impression that he just doesn't want to sell.

I’d look into this. Well done op for getting out of your marriage, your best times are yet to come.

4th bedroom....ideal WFH space maybe?

Any chance you can buy your ex out? Especially at a lower price as it's not going to sell for £200k

This needs to go back to court to force sale. The judge can and will sign on his behalf if he refuses.