House what should we do to sell

[Vs123]

Hi,

We want to sell our house. We have been there 15 years and the house has lots of good memories. We now want to sell it but not getting a lot of traction. The houses in the neighbourhood have sold for similar price or more. Any suggestions of where is it We are missing the trick here?

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/159203675

Thanks
Vanya

Drop the price & declutter.

Diff areas have different prices! Thanks

Thanks, not sure what you mean by schools needing improvement. There are 2 outstanding schools in the catchment.

I would tidy up the front garden, there seems to be a plant growing onto the roof which would concern me as I wouldn't know what it was. Get new seasonal photos taken of both the front and back garden.

Internally, the lights being obviously on in certain rooms makes me think perhaps the house is a bit dark. I imagine at this time of year the natural light would be better?

The rooms look lovely and big, but sometimes they seem almost too big, as in very little furniture for the space, so perhaps put down some rugs to pull the rooms together a bit.

Something else that jumped out at me is the photo with the tower of weights next to a sofa. Makes me confused about the use of the room. I would remove them, or dress one of your rooms as a gym and move them there.

Basically tidy up the exterior, dress the rooms a bit and get the photos retaken. If that doesn't work, I would look at dropping the price

St Edmund, Wessex and Cox Green - 3 out of the 4 listed as nearest to the house on Rightmove are requires improvement. One is even mentioned in your listing

In the listing all the schools nearby are requires improvement ….

There’s are a lot of issues with your house OP and apart from picking on the northerner you’ve ignored everyone else.

1. the layout is really strange, it looks unliveable, you haven’t addressed that
2. it looks a bit odd and bitty, and for that money in SL6, people can have a pretty house, not an odd looking one, sorry that’s the reality
3. the garage is unusable for a car
4. fake grass at that price point? Just No
5. Anyone buying it will need to spend £100k plus to deal with the points above so that makes it £900k. Go look at what that can buy you from Taplow to Marlow - your buyers are spending that money elsewhere.

Honestly, the agent or you has massively over valued it. If you really love it like it is, stay. Otherwise that’s a £650k house on a good day if you can find a buyer who has an appetite for huge structural change in an era of spiralling building costs. Just being realistic. Go look at the competition.

Lots of small things but the killer is the road, which you can't change. I think a lot of people would rule the house out on that basis however nice it was. So you need to drop the price quite substantially.

I agree. The noise and pollution from the road would make it a no go for me.

Thanks all!

You haven’t addressed how you access the kitchen? Looks like no internal door? That would put me off?
generally looks unloved and uncared for which would lead me to think it’s a bigger repair job than cosmetics alone

I wonder if you are seeing it as a ‘modern, turn key, fully up together house’ and pricing it accordingly, when actually there are a few quite big issues that most buyers would want to resolve - mainly the layout downstairs, the lack of bathrooms upstairs for the number of bedrooms, the dated kitchen and the tired garden. All those things would cost a lot to change but if it’s not priced as a ‘project’ house I think it will put a lot of people off.

It's on your Rightmove listing when you click on 'schools'.