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)

Thank you. I don't understand why he won't do this. Yes he works full time but that's it. He has every evening and weekend to do SOMETHING

but is this about housing for council tenants or a legal requirement that everyone should be following?

It's something I would think about when viewing properties. To me a double should be a certain size, a single a certain size. So if I looked at a floor plan and the sizes didn't stack up l would not be interested. In this case it's being advertised as having 4 double bedrooms, and I don't see that.
FWIW, I live in a 3 storey Victorian terrace. All of my bedrooms are bigger than these rooms when considering square metres.

But it's still drawn wrong. The fourth bedroom is wider than the bathroom but is drawn narrower.

In this case it's being advertised as having 4 double bedrooms. It doesn't say that on the listing.

OK, 4 'very spacious bedrooms'. I don't see 4 very spacious bedrooms. I see 3, with one that is an odd shape, and a box room.

The 4th bedroom is really only a box room, often the case. One of the biggest rooms is designated a play room, should be a living room of some sort but access is odd being through the utility. Downstairs toilet is through the kitchen and utility. The layout just seems a bit odd, are all the houses on the estate like that or has someone done some modifications?

As many have said, it'll be the price that's the problem. The Nationwide calculatr roughly has a 30% increase between the date you bought and now, which values it at 180k. Looking at the other houses available in the area for between 180k and 200k, there are many I'd look at first.

This is difficult, @CinnamonSwirlLatte because you are not in control of any decisions at all as far as I can from your posts.

What can you ask Purple Bricks to change in reality? The floorplan is very poor, as others have pointed out. Ask them to include sq footage- people like to see that. I think I would actually reduce the photos by 50% because a lot of them look a bit depressing, unfortunately. It all has a sparse, uncared for look, which may be correct, given the sad story you describe.
My other suggestion is to mark it is a 3 bedroom house with the 4th bedroom upstairs labelled as a 'study' and the 'playroom' labelled as an extra reception room. Most families only have 1-2 children and don't need 4/5 bedrooms so the extra bedroom may not add much value, unless the house is in a better area/ bigger room sizes/ detached, etc and therefore marketed at a demographic with a much larger budget.

Other suggestions, which you probably can't enact at present:
Choose a decent high street agent
Retake the photos, remove clutter and furniture
Reduce the price further- (it's nearly always the price if people aren't even bothering to view).

Floor plan shows 4 beds - playroom could be 5th

@CinnamonSwirlLatte
Do you have access to the planning permission documents from the previous owner by any chance when they carried out the extension?
These will no doubt have really accurate plans that new floor plans could be based on.

Good advice, sell and move on.

You say that Purple Bricks will let you know if there are any viewings but if your ex put the house on the market and you didn't even realise until you saw it on Rightmove how is this going to happen? Do they even have contact details for you? And are they going to accept new floor plans etc from you? Surely as far as they are concerned, they don't even know who you are? On another note, do you own the property jointly? I don't like the fact that this sale is happening without you having input into it? I just checked and when we sold our last house (and bought this one) both DH and I had to sign all the paperwork from the agents, solicitor etc. How is your ex proposing to manage that?

Is your Ex allowing viewings to even take place, is there any chance he's refusing by being awkward about times/dates people can view?

Can you have the property on with more than one agent at a time, where by you also get to choose an agent?

Can you seek advice to see if you can force the sale of the property, does he pay you half the rentable value while he's living there?

Doesn't seem fair that he's living there while you're having to live elsewhere with the DC.

I'm beginning to think no matter how beautifully laid out or decorated the house is if your Ex doesn't want to sell/move he's not going to do anything to aid the selling of the property thus keeping a certain amount of control on when you get to move on with your life.

Nationwide sell mortgage debt, they have a vested interest in people believing that they will see in increase in value after taking on a mortgage debt. I think a 30% increase is unlikely with where interest rates are now, although I agree that 180k would be a better place to start.

Lots of clicks /views - it's on mn so every reader has clicked on it

It could be a lovely home

The plan isn't to scale. It says that but

Bedrooms - the box room looks tiny on the plan but is a cabin bed and table under

The slanting bedroom is just weird if that is the Main bedroom 1 and en suite - but looks like you can't walk round the bed

I would move wardrobe nearer the window and have the beds /double so near the en suite so can walk round the bottom of bed to the other side

Looks like that was a kids bedroom with rainbow - not the master so needs painting over

You have 2 reception rooms but one as a bedroom so needs to say

Spacious living room

2nd reception room/playroom/5th bedroom

Back garden needs work

As usual I'm shocked how cheap it is compared to me in the south east

If it's a 70/30 to you - can't you buy him out and move back in ?

No other houses are like this one

The clicks were from its first three weeks, not when I put it on Mumsnet.

No, I will not be moving back to the area he lives in.

I contacted Purple Bricks myself and have now been put on the account.

I can never move on because we have children together. I need to make sure I get enough of a deposit to buy a house. I've saved up as much as I can on Universal Credit

The layout is an odd shape and that is what is probably putting people off as well as the open field/farm on the back is off putting for me straight away.

Bedroom 4 wouldn’t really class as a bedroom - more so a storage cupboard or an office study and as the playroom is on the same floor as living space, people are probably seeing it as an additional lounge/dining room given that it appears that you can only access this through the kitchen and then utility. It’d be more of a dining room as your kitchen table takes up too much space in the kitchen currently and makes it look cluttered.

Bedroom 1 which appears to be the master as has en suite looks very tight.

If I’m being honest, the photos aren’t the best, they are dark.

Kitchens and bathrooms look modern which is a positive. Cosmetic changes such as walls and carpets are to each individual taste. They appear to be in of good condition but it’s mostly characteristic - it’s whether people like that..

To elude and I’ve not read the nearly 700 comments but you are in the wrong market for a 4 bed. Your previous living arrangements may be that you had 6 DC living there ample, but that isn’t everyone….

The layout is an odd shape and that is what is probably putting people off as well as the open field/farm on the back is off putting for me straight away.

You would be put off by a field at the back @good96 ?

"I need to make sure I get enough of a deposit to buy a house."

As someone said upthread sitting on the market doesn"t help you to do this, changing the "look" of the house has limited value (and if someone has the legal right to live there they would have to make the changes?) because people will eventually view it in person and make a decision based on size, layout, location and price.

The garden and field/open space at the back is a major selling point, anyone not liking that needs to view houses in a city.