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’d think I would be a bit ‘snippy’ if I was in a refuge with 6 kids and my house was being sold without my consent? Perhaps we could all moderate the language around the OP’s possessions and decor choice? She’s having a hard enough time as it is.

Then quite honestly there isn't much point in answering your post.....

I find it really strange that so many people on a Property forum can't read a floorplan correctly!

Yet a lot of people, including potential buyers, can't see the small 4th bedroom.

It needs to be labelled more clearly.

I'd probably label the playroom as a reception room too.

The floor plan is atrocious, get that re-done, to scale. We have a 4th bedroom smaller than yours with a small double bed in it and clever storage, ridiculous that your floorplan has it looking like an airing cupboard when it's almost 5m2.

Remove the pics of the twin beds crammed into other room also.

Would be better to have the pics redone on a sunny day.

Tip: don’t add your home to MN if you don’t want honest feedback- ask a mate instead. Or a local agent.

This is a cupboard, not a bedroom.

TERRIBLE photographs. Every room looks gloomy and several look not fit for purpose.

The one with the twin beds looks particularly awful and cramped, and that’s not even the small room.

Probably a large bright kitchen but the photos make the layout look weird and awkward.

You may have used is as a 5 bedroom but it is a 3 bedroom, 2 reception room house - plus a pokey little cupboard room upstairs that is poorly labelled on the floor plan. Maybe “study” or boxroom?

If I were in the market for a 4 bedroom house I would not see this as appropriate.

I am sorry your ex is being an arse. It looks like he’s trying to avoid selling.

People would have been kinder if you had told the whole story, so I apologise for my comment. But PB are awful. I was I a similar situation as you. I'm from Goxhill so know the area reasonably well. Can he not buy you out? If not go back to court to force a sale, that's what I had to do. As you know you have legal aid as a DV victim. He will have to defend himself or pay. It's shit. But you will come out the other side.

Are there plans for new homes on the land behind the garden.

I'd get rid of some of the photos and tone down the listing.

It says 'amazing views' and 'beautiful private garden' and then you have a photo of a field with some grotty sheds and a very average looking garden which is poorly maintained. The listing raises your expectations.

Some of the photos actively make it look worse eg 2 photos of the bedroom with a bunkbed in. First photo - fine, looks like a kids bedroom. Second photo - looks pokey. Might dump the pictures of the room with the 2 single beds in as again they make a normal sized room look small.

Ultimately I suspect everyone looking realises they have to redecorate and so think it's over priced.

We don’t know her circumstances. Often people in this situation have been cut off from friends and family.

Maybe the strangely shaped rooms is putting people off? That was my first thought.

The photos were clearly taken on a dark day. I would see if they can retake the photos on a sunny day and with some slightly better angles. If I see a house where the lights are on in the photos I immediately think it's dark, even if the outside photos indicate that's why it would be on that day, and it would put me off.

Looking at the room dimensions for floor 1, bedroom 4 isn't much smaller than the other 2 rooms on the right BUT the picture looks tiny.
The EA needs to sort that out.

Redistribute the existing furniture so you don't have empty rooms and cramped rooms.

Sack off some garden pictures - theu aremt flattering.

As other people have said, it does look a bit unloved but that can't be helped. 200k feels like a good price for 4+ bedrooms anywhere in the country.

I’m so sorry - it’s just another means of control really, He isn’t trying at all to present the house in the best light and he’s being aided by truly shit estate agents who have made a right mess of the listing.

She makes her circumstances perfectly clear. Eventually

The photos aren’t very well lit and at weird angles. Can you get new ones taken? The floor plan also says that the first floor isn’t drawn to scale which makes one of the bedrooms virtually disappear. Can it be edited so it is drawn to scale?

If you can’t change anything in the house and can’t drop the price then there is nothing you can do.

Your kitchen diner is lovely but has one photo only which doesn't do it justice.

Sure, but that’s not going to get it sold. What is it you think she wants. Empathy or to get it sold?

Picture 3 & 6 look like mould on the wall and doorframe. Probably wallpaper patter in photo 3. What is it in photo 6?

I would market as 3 bed, and label the 4th as office space, not a bedroom. It would probably be more appealing to those looking for 3 bed, and if people restrict searches on RM its not going to appear, and those looking for 4 beds will dismiss it based on the size of the box room.

This was my immediate reaction. It looks as if it needs a lot of work doing to it in order to bring it up to date, which, of course, costs ££££, so people will be thinking about that aspect. It is also a mid-terrace house. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, but most people expect a four bedroomed house to be detached or, occasionally, semi-detached. With all these factors at play, most people will be put off viewing the house because they will think it is not worth the money. Your ex-husband can say as often and as loudly as he wants that he will not accept less than £200,000, but the chances of someone willing to pay that price are vanishingly small.

It’s not that people can’t read it properly, as you so rudely put it - it’s that the floorplan is terribly presented, and the fact that so many people are giving you that feedback backs that up.

The photos aren’t great either, and the write-up is dire. You need a better agent. Using Purple Bricks suggests you’re not serious about selling.