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)

What do you think is a "stupid price"? The price increase shown by the sales history isn`t justified by anything that I can see, especially since borrowing costs have gone back to more normal levels, what has changed with the property to justify this increase?

I also think that the smallest room, which is described as a bedroom, is nothing more than a box room at best, and a large cupboard at worst. It’s tiny! That won’t help as it technically reduces the house to a three bed plus playroom/dining room.

True, to some extent

Bedroom 4 is way too small to be described as a bedroom imo, be better touted as a home office space. The "bedroom" thats a bunk bed and underneath desk also way too small.
The bedroom with the 2 twin beds isn't a great shape and shows theres actually not enough room to really get past the end of the bed the way its orientated and a double wouldn't work in there facing either way, so really only 1 single lengthways would really work. (if i'm reading right that thats bedroom 1 with the ensuite and the biggest bedroom, then it's really unappealing as most would want the master bedroom to have the ensuite, but a double wouldn't fit?)
The only bedroom that seems to actually fit a double bed, is also pretty small without much storage space. None of the bedrooms have enough space imo for proper storage, none of them would fit everything i have in my current bedroom in.

Playroom as a bedroom on the ground floor isn't the most ideal/practical for many, despite seeming the actual biggest room space wise.

Kitchen/utility is nice, Lounge not a bad space, but everything else about the house is a major no from me.

Fundamentally there are limited levers on selling a house you can pull:

• the condition of the house - state of plumbing, roof, age of kitchen/bathroom etc
• physical presentation of the house - decor, amount of stuff, staging to maximise the way things look
• marketing - good photos, good description, helpful floor plans, pro active agent with database of interested clients, making it easy for views etc
• price

The problem it sounds like you have is you feel you can’t do anything about any category. I’m sorry, that sucks. Can you speak to your solicitor about whether there is anything to be done here?

Not read all previous replies but my initial reaction is that it looks a bit unloved / cold / unwelcoming.

If your ex wants to get people through the door and maximise the sale price, he needs to give it some TLC.

Rearrange the furniture so the rooms are less cramped / dressed as if for use.

Make up the beds as if they’re being used.

Decor could be looked at if he wants to go to that effort.

Garden and frontage could do with a bit colour / life.

People need to be able to imagine themselves living there and the more you can do that, the better.

Op do you know if you are getting calls for viewings and it's your ex that is blocking them from happening?

Yeah, I've asked Purple Bricks. Apparently there has been an above average amount of clicks, but no viewings

Thank you. I fully agree

Is it the price? £200k wouldn’t buy you a studio flat where I live, but is that a realistic price where you are?

Also, I think the 4th bedroom might put buyers off as it’s absolutely tiny - no more than a cupboard.

The 4th bedroom is small but it has drawers, cube unit and a high sleeper bed with desk underneath. It's not the worst box room in the world

The trouble is you don't seem to have a remit...he's living there happily or to spite you re the money split and therefore at the moment he has the upper hand. He can be an arse about everything especially viewing when you actually get some appointments.

@CinnamonSwirlLatte maybe get in touch with some of those "we buy any house" companies? You might not get the full price but at least it'll be sold and you can totally break ties with your cunt of an ex.

Honestly looks like a dooer upper, but it's not priced as that.

Everything needs redecorating. The kitchen is not to everyone's taste so you're looking at £15k to fix that (you're not, but in their mind they are)

The garden is barren. Artex ceilings (plasterers are expensive)

If he won't let it be redecorated (that grey needs to go and that peach, kitchen could be vastly improved by simply painting it white) then you've got no choice but to drop the price substantially and market it as a dooer upper.

I guess so. I'll have to speak to my solicitor if he doesn't try any of my suggestions

How much less do they pay? I need the maximum equity :( I'm struggling as it is x

Good advice.

It isn't doer upper. Granted the decor might not be to everyone's taste but that's cosmetic. 'Doer upper' suggest re-wiring, replastering, extending/re-modelling etc.

He definitely won't. I saved up enough money for a new kitchen while we lived together, got quotes, plans drawn up, found a builder and he still said no. I then used that money as my escape fund

Any chance of you getting a mortgage (even a btl mortgage) considering you already in theory own 70% of the equity and buy him out of his 30%

Even if you are not safe to live there, could you then rent the place out to cover the mortgage and give yourself at least an extra bit of income to go towards a new place

Or just by being more in control of the house.

I don’t think this has anything to do with price or location and if the house had been looked after, beds made, and looking like a proper family home with a nice garden I think priced at £200,000 it isn’t completely ridiculous.

Your ex is is not ever going to sell. He can welcome as many viewers as he wants but the way the house is presented and his demeanour he probably isn’t trying to sell it.

You have to ask yourself what is in it for him?
This is why I think it was very strange how your divorce was ended without the financials being sorted properly leaving the higher awarded struggling in rented and the lesser party living in the marital home and being asked to sell it

It doesn’t make sense

Too much furniture, laid out not to its best. Dark rooms.

Edited to say I didn't realise there were five pages so I expect my comment has already been made.

Sorry about your controlling ex husband.

What an arsehole he is, and that’s being polite!

Do you own the property in any way, do you have any rights to it, or just rights to the resulting money from the sale?

Good point.

Yep @likeadrink it'll be the op's language that led to her being a victim of domestic violence

I would just add though, makes no sense. You're saying you're getting 70% and he's getting 30%. Why is he the one living there then? Surely you should be living in it and then you could just buy him out?