Why has no one viewed my house?

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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)

I'm sorry, I don't know exactly but they'll all quote you and let you decide if you want to proceed. Just thought they might be worth looking into.

Again, I begged to change the sofas but he wouldn't. They're REALLY worn too, like leather peeling off everywhere. Oh well.

If anything needed painting and I couldn't afford a decorator, I would paint it. He didn't do DIY (or was shit at it). I doubt he'd paint it all white! Plus, it's mostly wallpaper.

Thanks x

Yes, less clutter and painted white would be good, I actually like the house, it looks clean and tidy and liveable to me.

that bedroom with two beds i would take one out and dress the other ie put on a duvet rather than just a sheet
back garden bit messy and uncolourful could you perhaps put out a nice table and chairs a few colourful planted pots and hanging baskets

Thank you. It's definitely liveable, just a shame he's still there lol

We had all this. He's got rid of it all

I'm sure others have said... people won't ask where the 4th bedroom is - they will scroll on.
Convert the playroom to a proper double bedroom - downstairs toilet is close. Show bed4 as a study, walk in wardrobe or playroom instead. Not everyone looks for a downstairs bedroom but better to portray this than the tiny bed 4 upstairs.good luck. BTW if loads of space outside, also mention "may be suitable for extension as large outdoor space".

Downstairs bedroom is awkwardly shaped so would probably look crap as a double bedroom unfortunately.

Two of my relatives had a very acrimonious divorce. Rather than let the other spouse walk away from the house with anything, they both ruined the property—fists through walls, etc. Is your XH doing similar? Going through the bare minimum motions with the listing, just to keep the courts off of his back, but happy to live there while it deteriorates, so that your 70% becomes nothing? If I can’t have it; neither of us will have it.

I'd have thought the longer he stays there, the higher the equity would be? As he'll be paying more of the mortgage off?

Several things

1. Label the playroom as a bedroom - first glance, you want a 5 bedroom house, you click on a 5 bedroom house, you glance at the rooms, there is clearly "bedroom" on 4 of the rooms. It's actually a 4 bedroom, you wanted a house with 5. This house has clearly wasted your time by being wrongly labelled, you move on.

2. The room with the two beds and the rainbow thing on the wall, looks really odd. Is one of the long walls slopping? If those two beds are the same size, why is there a bigger gap between the foot of one and the wall, and the foot of the other and the wall?

3. Try and make the house look as big as you can, so no where with lots of furniture for the size. This might just be me, but I find, while it can be hard to make an EMPTY room look full of furniture in my head, it's easier to picture more furniture/things, than "clear out" things that I'm seeing.

One room
Set up A
bed, slim wardrobe and book case.

Set up B
bunks, a double wardrobe, toy box and a chest of drawers

If I saw A, I could probably make B in my head and see if it works
If I saw B, and thought it looked horribly cramped, it would be harder to think, well actually I don't need to put twins in there, it will just be a spare room, so this is how spacious it would be with setup A.

Thank you for your help. The big bedroom is a strange shape, yes.

Curated? It’s house not a museum!

Those photos are doing you no favours. All I see are very weirdly shaped rooms where you would have to climb over the bed, not walk round the end of it. That's the problem right there. I wouldn't bother looking based on that, which is a real pity as the house looks like really good value at 200k.

The beds in room on pic 17 don't fit the room. Can you remove them?

Can you or ex decorate?

Just report your own post and ask the mods to remove it & they will x

Unfortunately OP isn't in a position to change anything, but for the benefit of anyone who might buy this or a similar house:
IMO although a utility room is normally a selling point, in this case I would convert it into an en suite for the playroom making it a viable bedroom. The toilet there might be possible to convert into a tiny utility?

Can you get somebody local, but unknown to your ex, to do a viewing? You would have some knowledge then whether he is sabotaging the sale. They could even give feedback after re photo and floor plan quality and he might listen to a prospective purchaser.

Like others I missed bedroom 4 (and I love a floor plan). I also struggle a bit to imagine measurements in metres whereas feet and inches I can visualise (but that may be my age). A respected local Estate Agent would give advice and might actually drum up trade. PB is avoided by some purchasers. Also, when a property has been on the market for a long time purchasers imagine there must be a problem, even if they can't see what it is.

The rooms look tiny and cramped, the wallpaper makes it look even smaller in places. It’s not a happy family home, it looks like everyone is falling all over each other there.

No. She can't, he won't.

Well...no comment.

Better than that teeny tiny room showing as a bedroom that viewers cannot easily spot. Try to think out of the box - keep it simple - it can be done

It's actually got quite a lot of space and the kitchen is excellent. I've not read any of the previous comments but fwiw:

• Front and back garden are very bare - no kerb appeal. Back garden taken from an angle that makes it look very poorly maintained and maybe a bit dangerous.
• Fourth bedroom not clearly marked on the plan and also looks TINY compared to the other rooms - I suspect it's small anyway but it really looks like a cupboard relative to the other rooms on the plan
• I wouldn't call the playroom a playroom - if you're not marketing it as a 5 bed house (which I think is the right call to make, btw) then I'd call it Reception 2
• The big leather recliner corner suite makes the sitting room look much smaller than it needs to
• The photos are really dreary and taken from terrible angles making the bedrooms look very cramped. The biggest bedroom with the twin beds looks really squashed and miserable.

I feel that this could be made to look much more appealing, but you probably need buy-in from your ex for that.

DS also bought in Lincolnshire in 2017 and prices really have gone up since then. Although his was definitely a doer upper and part of his increase in equity was the work put in, the rest was definitely just due to a general overall rise in prices.