If anyone is looking for a 2 bed flat in Worthing...

[TeddyBeans]

Here's ours 🤣

Feel free to critique the listing, we had a fluke viewing the day after it went live and radio silence since... Would love to sell, the kids need their own rooms and we desperately want a garden

Nice sized rooms! Not loads of photos though, a few more might help. And you've taken decluttering seriously!

It could look a touch cozier would be my critique. But it's lovely! Hope you sell Nice and quick.

Looks good OP, good luck

Looks lovely

As a Northerner, the price blows my mind, but it’s really nice. Neat and tidy and well decorated. I think the service charge is high but I don’t know if that’s the norm where you are. The outside isn’t very attractive but there is nothing you can do about that. It hasn’t been up long, hang on in there. Did you get feedback about the first viewing?

I don’t think a service charge of c £150 pcm is unusual for this type of property.

The fact it’s a top floor flat is really attractive.

Worthing isn’t cheap.

Thanks all ❤️

Decluttering was not my favourite thing to do but with a 2 and 7 year old, it really needed it!

The outside is maintained by professional gardeners every so often but unfortunately we had the photos taken 4 days before they came for the first time this year 🤣

Agree the service fee is high, that's partially why there are 5 flats in the complex up for sale at the same time. The stakes are high!

The guy that came to see it said that he liked the flat and the rooms are all really good sizes but he didn't like that he couldn't park his car outside the garage... It's not been an issue for us but different strokes I suppose

How long is the remainder of the lease?

Lots of years looking at the details

I would love to live in a place this tidy. I feel like my entire living space is one big messy playroom. I have nothing to critique.

Lovely looking place OP 😍 Good luck 🤞

With sales at their lowest level for many years I don"t think the price is realistic, and with interest rates more elevated that is a lot of debt for someone to pay back if they need a mortgage.

https://www.plumplot.co.uk/West-Sussex-property-transactions.html

If there are 5 for sale in the block, why do you think you'll achieve profit of more than 13% in the short time you've been there? Haven't prices fallen since 2021?

If you want to sell quickly, yours needs to be the most attractive proposition of the 5. Is it? How are the others priced?

You might get views if the room dimensions were on the floor plan. Agents typically take very distorted pictures and you can only rely on the actual dimensions. Dimensions are in the words, so should be easy to add to the floor plan. Note, I wouldn't normally read the ad if there were no dimensions on the floor plan.

The eating space looks very cramped, but not sure what you can do about that.

I might be tempted to call the breakfast room a study and put a round table in the space in the living room.

Are you able to change the photos? The photography is really letting you down! If there is the option to change them I can make some suggestions for how to reframe/reset.

Urgh, your agent hasn't included dimensions on the floorplan. As a buyer I find that really unhelpful. Can they add them on?

I feel very calm looking at your photographs. I wish I lived in such an organised and clutter free home.

In fact I’ll just add my photography suggestions now and you can take away what you want.
Photo 1: Eyes are drawn to the scruffy concrete and wonky bollard. Would be much better if closer, just showing the building and nice lawn in front.
Photo 2: Take it from further back and square on, showing both side boards rather than cut one off.
Photo 3: This gives you nothing, just a doorway, it makes you want to stop looking.
Photo 4: Until I looked at the floor plan I didn’t realise this was a dining space. Centre the table, add a vase. Do you have two matching chairs? If not I would put the high chair on the side and remove the other chair from the photo. Consider also moving the dining table into the living room and setting this up as an office space.
Photo 5&6: The room is so empty it looks like a waiting room. All the seating at one end. It needs to look more homely. If you don’t have stuff, borrow from a neighbour for the photos - a rug, plants, pictures, move the single chair further down with a coffee table next to it.
Photo 7&8: ok
Photo 9: Photo needs to be taken from further back to show the size of the room. Cutting the bed off just makes the room look small.
Photo 10: Again, take the photo from further back to fit the whole room in otherwise it looks smaller than it is.
Photo 11: ok

I also don't like it when the dimensions aren't included on a floorplan. Ask the agent to add this.
Apart from that, it looks okay and well presented.

It sounds as if you have a lot of competition, even in your own block. Also, flat prices look to have been falling in the past couple of years, although not sure about Worthing specifically.
I would wait another week or two and then reduce 5-10% if you still haven't had any interest.

Add the dimensions to the floor plan!

@TeddyBeans I didn't learn much about the surrounding area. It's really dull and lazy photography. Tell them you're not happy with it, ask them to do it again. Hopefully you'll then have time to set the scene and create a lifestyle :viewers aspires to. 😅
It's a good property, show it off!!

It looks good. Suggestion:
Add dimensions to floor plan
Turn the dining table around to show 4 people can easily sit round it
Call the breakfast room 'dining area'
Drop the price unless you have done a lot of work since buying in 2021. Prices have gone down not up.

You EPC only looks a point or so short of going up a category. I think D feels negative from an EPC standpoint but C feels a lot better (national average I think). Sometimes you can bump the category up just by changing the lights.

The market looks very flat in that area and there appears to be similar property sales to compare your price to that sold for 220K within the last year.

You bought around the P75 mark (£213K in 2021) and I see that the current P75 mark is now £220K. Have you done anything to the property to warrant the additional £20K being asked? If not, then you look over-priced - especially for Durrington - near the station.

You obviously have no control over this, but after Covid we always said that we'd never look at a flat without outside space/balcony.

Looks well presented. Good luck.

I agree with this, there have been 3 or 4 for sale in our block. We were desperate to sell for the same reasons as you. We originally went on the market at £10k under the cheapest of the other apartments in the block, and in reality have had to come down another £40k to shift it, at less than I paid 6 years ago. Profit wasn’t the driving factor though, a bedroom for DS and some outside space is.

I’m in the NW and my service charge is £240pm…