Going to view a house today that I want badly !

[skidamarinkadinka]

Gorgeous 1930s detached house, needs alot of modernising, huge garden, big drive and garage. It's on a main road into town but all the houses on this road are the same and just so lovely to look at.
We are not on the market yet but plan to get the same estate agents to list us asap. We need to move, we've outgrew this house in the last two years.
They want £450k. It was reduced in October.
Feedback has been the main road putting people off and also the work that will need doing.
How can we up our chances ?
We can probably go upto £430k but that would be the maximum.

So we have FINALLY had our photos taken, should be on the market by later or tomorrow. I’m glad that part is over with as I was stressing getting the house looking good, we have a nice house that we’ve done alot too but having young children just means it gets trashed all day! Now onto the next worry, getting viewings!

Good luck OP!

That’s not true at all. I’ve recently moved into my new home, having viewed and offered before we were in the market. We chose to list with the same estate agent so they worked hard to sell ours to get a chain together. We sold within days due to pricing it right.

Hi everyone, we’re officially “live” 😁 got 3 viewings booked in already, here’s hoping for a quick sale !

Great news, fingers crossed

Can you share the rightmove link?

Its very difficult to separate heart from head if you think you have your "forever" home.

If the neighbouring property was similar design but extended and in good order for 475k then their ask of 450k is very high, especially in the current market. Having bought a series of properties which needed modernising I would suggest you make a list of what you really need to do soon, what you can live with and how to sequence the work to minimise overall cost. Then when you have those costs look at the property again to decide what it is worth to you.

For example if the kitchen is ancient and largely non existent you may need to replace is asap, if its just a very dated 80s kitchen then you can live with it for a while. You mention a boiler - so does it have central heating fitted and modern windows? If so then make sure the wiring check recommends what needs changing rather than simply says "consumer unit not current standards" as standards change every few years but this doesn't mean the consumer unit needs replacing.

Don't underestimate the cost and mess involved in moderately costing items such as damp proofing or moving wiring/plumbing.

We saw a lot of executor sales/older people moving out each time we bought as we were always willing to take on a project. If I had a quid for every time an older resident (or quite often their DC) were insisting that their beloved house was worth X just because house in neighbouring street or neighbour in better nick was worth X it would have covered our deposit.

You are describing a popular type of house in a popular area which has not sold after a year on the market - that suggests its over priced even at 420k by comparison with neighbouring properties. However if its really your forever home you may take the view that over time you would redecorate, replace kitchens etc anyway and suck up the price. Try to list out the pros and cons and all the costs and make an offer which is worth it to you. Factor in something for "emergency move" just in case a change of circumstances forces a move within five years to allow for any possible losses in the short term.

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hopefully some will fall in love with yours as much as you fallen in love with the other one.

Hopefully once you sold yours, his family will put the pressure on him to sell his to yours at the price you've offered!!

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Nope ! We’re still in touch with the sellers, the husband called us a week or so ago and said he was going to see his daughters and they would want an update, so dh ssid £420k as will need modernising electrics etc and we have to factor in stamp duty.
Nor sure what came of that conversation with his daughters but we actually spoke to the wife yesterday, she said she is on our side and wants us to have the house but her husband wants to get as much as he can for it… so I’m guessing 420k isn’t enough.

No offers yet but only been on just over a week, had 5 viewings with another in a couple of days

The husband needs to accept that it’s not worth what they’re asking. The highest someone is actually prepared to pay is 420, so that’s what it’s worth. If it was worth more then it would have sold during the entire year that it’s been on the market.

Yep. Honestly, after a year, you would've thought he would have got the message., his daughters too!! 🙄🙄

It's not even as though they can't afford to move unless they get more🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

@skidamarinkadinka

thanks for the updates😊

I hope the viewings you have coming up go well🤞🏼🤞🏼

So we’ve had 6 viewings so far, no offers, 3 more tomorrow and starting to worry. Why aren’t we selling ?!

What’s the position of the people viewing yours? Are they all under offer otherwise if they are waiting for theirs to sell the might not be proceedable.

to be honest your EA is best placed to tell you why it isn’t selling- what’s the feedback?

The feedback has been:
Nice house but wasn’t for them, offered on another.
Good size bedrooms but not enough storage space for tools (we clearly don’t have a garage)
One said she would offer 20k under asking but knew we wouldn’t accept that so isn’t bothering
One couple said the layout wasn’t for them (although they stated that the open place downstairs is what made them want to view it lol)
Another said the downstairs bedroom was too small ( I do agree you wouldn’t get much else in if you have a king bed in there)
Another mentioned the cars on the road (we have a drive and can’t control how many cars people seem to have these days)

Were on for 215k, we have been extended, new garden fences, grass and patio, brand new boiler, decorated nicely, new flooring all over house, good area right by a primary school shops and local park.

It’s always the price. Always. Can you drop your price at all? I would be communicating with your vendors: you’re very keen, you’re doing all you can to be proceedable, would they consider dropping their price so you can in turn drop your price and everyone get the deal done?

And I’ve only asked for proceedable viewers as I wanted a quick sale

On what basis would she offer 20k under asking? Because that is all she can afford; or is that what she thinks the house is worth?

Because it was her top end anyway. She might be going on other houses too sound here, one went for 200k recently, same house and layout but nothing ever done to it. We had valuations and they all said 225k for fast sale. Just feel really fed up!
and no chance our vendor will accept less, he still thinks he’s going to get more than our offer of 420

Sorry that was supposed to say 215k for fast sale