House listed without parking. Just found out.

[NCDoris]

Any advice please dear mumsnetters.
We havd a large three storey house. 5 beds / 4 baths. New decor / new flooring. Weve had no interest. We found out yesterday it had been listed as having no parking!
Ten weeks without any interest which seened odd and we have to sell to downsize. We need disabled accommodation. We've reduced twice as there was no interest and our situation is running out of time. Our mortgage has doubled plus i can't make the stairs.
This is a mighty cock up. Obviously I've lost faith in the agent but we are in a cliquey village. The house has been reduced by a six figure sum.
What can we do?

To buy it privately.

EA leaflets saying 'people are looking for houses just like yours'

You are making a mountain out of a molehill here - just phone the estate agent tomorrow and get them to change the listing! Ok so they should have listed parking, it's annoying that that mistake was made, but mistakes happen. You haven't been stich-up at all!

I use the tick box for parking on rightmove so I wouldn't have seen OP's property so that is bad by the agent.

I don’t think that anyone looking at a five bedroom house with four bathrooms would have thought that it had no parking. That would be very unusual outside of city centres.

Who is it on with?

What do you mean by city centres? Theres whole towns, even suburbs of terraces of victorian/edwardian/georgian housing with 5 beds, townhouses that dont have parking.

Although its not clear from OP if that is the case or whether the pictures show the garage at the front of the house on the front picture, some garages in properties like that are down a side road to go round the back of the property.

and the OP believed it????

So the particulars said NO PARKING?

And there is no photo of the garage?

No floor plan including the garage?

you had notes through the door to buy it privately?

How have you been stitched up? It’s not as if the EA is going to deliberately try not to sell your property is it? I agree that there will be other factors at play here esp if you’ve already knocked 100,000 off the price.

Well I see she has updated to say these were prviate notes but in any case dont you regularly get leaflets from EAs saying 'people are looking for a house like yours'

We do, its just bog standard EA sales strategies. Nothing to 'disbelieve'.

They knwo what sort of houses their clients are looking for, sometimes its more bungalows, sometimes family homes, sometimes small flats

I agree. I think it's quite "niche" to tick loads of boxes in the filters and not something most people will bother doing. Most will base searches on location, number of bathrooms/bedrooms, and price. I strongly think that even when the "tick box" is corrected for parking, you'll still not get much interest. The main reason for houses not selling/little interest is the price.

I always tick parking as a requirement on rightmove so your property OP wouldn’t have come up in my search at all !

Id complain OP and re look at your 6 figure reduction. Base that on £/m2 for similar properties in your area
Then tell the agents to add the parking

Nail on the head. It's a simple human mistake. Just phone and tell them to correct it.

In what way do you think you were "stitched up" - no one has benefitted from this minor mistake!

Floor plan showing the garage but no photo

I check Rightmove a lot for certain areas. Sometimes I tick the Parking box, but only if it's an area where houses/flats might not have parking. I don't think this will have caused no interest for 10 weeks. You say you are in a village, where I would expect parking and therefore not feel the need to specify.

I get them about one a month, more when the market is busy. I have seen EA staff delivering them and they just bung them on every house in a road or area regardless of house size or anything else. I also get the "free valuation" offers. I think its a scattergun approach used regardless of what people are asking them for. On odd occasions (and not recently) I have had them saying stuff like "people are looking for a bungalow like yours" when its self evident that my house is not a bungalow. I reckon the "three storey" thing might be the offputter unless its massively common in the area. I used to live in surrey in an area where they were mixed in with standard 2 storey housing and all other things being equal, they always went for less. I think the OP is in a very sad and difficult situation but I don't think its because of an EA error.

I absolutely filter properties with parking due to adult DC with their own cars.

This is a serious shortfall in their offer op.

We're bang in the middle.
Other houses are selling but they are open plan. We have six new builds on the development but they are £200k more. Smaller gardens. Parking is easy here.

Why the ? I don't think it's that unusual, I used to own a 3 bed semi, I got a few notes asking to buy privately when it went up for sale. Nothing special about the house (£375k) but the location was sought after

Depending on what sort of village I wouldnt expect parking in small places like that, unless a modern house and OPs house is Im guessing one of those massive victorian villas. They're often on small roads with no parking

If you’re bang in the middle then the price isn’t too high ( that will depend obv )

I wouldn’t assume open plan is a bonus, many people have never liked it and many people are switching back to ‘rooms’.

I’m not alone in hating open plan

Hopefully if you get that parking on the listing you’ll start to see movement. I’d change the first pic people see on rightmove aswell, just in case people did see the property before

Modern house.