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)

Yes, I can see that, but I can only see 3 bedrooms upstairs.

Sorry - got it now. It's so small I thought it was part of the landing!

Could you also move one of the sofas into the playroom and perhaps add a coffee table and a tv unit?

@MagdaLenor , it's bigger than it looks in the floorplan.
As pp, the floorplan is dreadful.

Sorry you aren't getting viewings. That must be stressful. My tips would be

1. Put something outside - a nice pot with plant/flowering plant to make it look more welcoming. Maybe a wreath on the door too. First impression the house looks clinical outdoors and lacks curb appeal.
2. The backyard needs cleaning up - again some pots with flowering plants, a general tidy. It needs that door (?) leaning on the structure to be moved. Maybe a patio set out there with table, chairs and outdoor cushions for people to imagine it being a nice space.
3. The rooms look so so small based on the photos. It could be b/c of the lens being used but it would massively put me off
4. I'd get furniture out. There's just too much of it. The couch/sofa is overwhelming the space as well as some of the beds.
5. Does your estate agent offer staging advice. I have a friend that did it for a couple hundred quid - moving furniture out, a few nice cushions, a throw here and there.
6. Floorplan, floorplan, floorplan.

The house looks like it needs lots doing - it may not but the pictures make it seem so - mostly b/c they don't make the house shine, inside or out. Unless it's substantially under market value, people will look and see an exaggerated amount of what needs doing simply b/c it's not got that curb appeal and it's a bit hard to imagine with the heavy furniture. It looks dull and uninviting.

[@CinnamonSwirlLatte saying these things only to help you, it's not a judgment on your home - your home works for you, that is all that matters UNTIL you are trying to sell it!]

Good luck!

Agreed! Awful all round.

"Ex said at court he'd never accept less than 200k. Lol"

I feel for you OP as ex is sitting pretty and (as far as I know) has no need to move - no wonder he is making no effort to sell. Since you do have equity can you get Court to order sale? - which might give him an incentive to make more effort? You must surely be allowed to put it with a better agent. Think you do need legal advice - can worry about paying back legal fees later.

I think the floorplan is the issue. The measurements don't match to the relative dimensions . I know it's not to scale but it's unhelpfully making bedroom 4 look tiny. And there's a missing door on the en suite.

I also think the photos are poor. There's no proper picture of the kitchen.

I wouldn't bother with flowers and new bedding as no ones cares about that but if you can make the rooms look brighter it will help

This "his horrible personality has even made the sun go in". It's so unloved by him. Asshole.

The 4th bedroom is clearly a bedroom, it has space for a bunkbed and storage.

maybe a wreath on the door ... really?!
Perhaps the OP can go round and put one on.

Well that explains the terrible photos.

The one of the room at the funny angle makes it look like you have to walk past the bed but from the late one that's the end of the room. But who gets there before thinking 'nope'.

The floor plan is rubbish. The fact that so many people here missed your extra bedroom means buyers will too. By not labelling it properly it brackets it with the cupboards rather than a proper bedroom.

What is the empty room? The playroom?

Why can't he put one of the beds from the funny shape room in there? Then it would be so obvious in pics that it's an awkward shape.

Front is also taken far too straight. Be nicer to emphasize the grass by taking it at an angle rather than the ugly concrete.

There doesn't look too much wrong inside but it's just lacking any real appeal and the pictures emphasise negatives rather than it's positives.

There are photo editing programs that add a blue sky, this has been used in these pics, but it makes such a difference

Honestly...

There is zero curb appeal, get the front tidied and some nice pot plants or something to make the front more welcoming. Places like Home Bargains do pre planted ones for under a tenner a piece.

The guttering at the front is filthy, the edging on the door cover is badly worn. Get someone to jet wash the guttering and get the wood repainted to spruce it up.

The back garden is a mess. It needs tidying and the patio areas sorting. The corner one looks like a real mess, there is rubble etc there. Grt this tidied up, get a fee pots to brighten it up.

The photos are pretty awful, they make the rooms look really dark.

If possible, take 1 bed out the twin room because it looks small and cramped

It's described ad 4 bed but only 3 are shown clearly

You say it's a 5 bed but only 3 bedrooms are clear on the floor plan

Bedroom 4 is tiny on the floor plan

Unfortunately it looks like someone will have to spend a lot to get it to a decent standard.

You need a better estate agent. Yours has not done a great job of marketing the house or advising you.

@ThisBlueCrab I doubt whether he's going to do any of that.

Purple Bricks isn't really an agent, it's a way of marketing on the portals yourself, DIY

That's a huge problem in itself, like many others I saw only 3 bedrooms. Get the floor plan fixed up so the writing is in the room.

If the 'playroom' is actually a bedroom get that fixed as well

That’s why the house doesn’t look loved.
It’s your horrible ex. Husband’s funk .

My elderly neighbours 90’s had a very un done up house but it felt loved.

The new people have completely gutted it and put back the original features that neighbs took out 60 yrs ago!

I hope it sells so you can move on 👍

Just seen it's on with purple bricks. That probably explains it - they are very difficult to arrange viewings with. They have an agent to cover an entire region (e.g. east of England) and therefore only offer viewings at very limited times as they have to group them by area. I would get a decent agent with a physical office in a local town. They will also proactively suggest your house to their registered buyers

@CinnamonSwirlLatte get the agent to photoshop the images them so they are brighter and also trim them to cut out some of the worst parts (like the photo of the bathroom that has a cupboard trim on it that clearly needs painting etc).

You are paying the agent to work for you, so get him to do what he can with the images.

I know I am just adding to some of the comments here.

It's very difficult for you if you can't have any input. But the EA are getting a fair cut so they could tell your ex what they think, even if it's what you think really.

I think the playroom should be called a dining room. Most places that have a playroom have just converted the dining room anyway.

That floor plan! It looks like there is no entrance to the en-suite.

I think having a tiny 4th bedroom is okay, it's just that the wording needs to be inside the box.

He needs to take one of those twin beds out of that room.

The EA should ring every month to check progress and suggest the next move. There is no reason why they cannot call you as well as him.

Good luck, OP.

We can read a floor plan - bedroom four is not a bedroom. Is a 2x2m boxed room that might work as a home office/nursery or is ripe to be converted into a shower room. The house is a 3 bed, 2 living roomed house with an home office. Odd shaped, the main lounge not easily accessed from kitchen, the ‘playroom’/possible 4th bed only accessible off the kitchen (huge issue hence suggesting you swap the lounge/playroom on the plans in previous post) and, as others have said the extension is really poorly thought out - the shape makes the rooms shapes awkward and unattractive and difficult to furnish, the external brickwork is appalling (I’d sue my builder) but might be camouflage-able if you painted it and popped a trellis up. The pictures would look better if the rooms were entirely unfurnished - and they all need to be retaken on a sunny day.

You’d be better putting this up for auction, but it’s way over-priced given the amount of remodelling etc needed to make it into an attractive family home. Sorry, but you need to be realistic.

All the rooms look dark even though they have the lights on. The room in picture 10 looks awful. It's tiny, weird shaped and impractical. It's not designed for twin beds in that layout. Could you move one of the beds out and put the other along the wall?

The photos don't make the rooms look as big as you would expect looking at the front of the house and floor plan

Bedroom 4 is tiny (so tiny half of us missed it on the floor plan)
You cannot claim the playroom is a bedroom when it’s connected to the utility room!

Ultimately it’ll be price, if it’s cheap enough someone will buy it. It certainly doesn’t look big enough for a family of 8!

People are looking at the sales history, it hasn`t increased in price like that, not with higher interest rates, that is my guess.

150k would be a realistic starting price in my opinion.