How can we sell when buyers keep raising the same issues?

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We originally listed our 2-bed terraced property in September 2025. It is priced in line with other properties and we are located in the East Midlands it was put up for 180k. We were happy with the photos and not had any issues with the Estate Agent.

We had an offer November 2025 but our buyer pulled out last minute just before a completion date was set due to personal reasons.

We relisted the property April and have had 6 viewings in 4 weeks. Our house needed renovated when buying it 5 years ago and we did all the work straight away so we have had all new flooring , a new kitchen, replaced the boiler, new front door , a few bits done in the bathroom (but it is getting tired , it’s a 3 piece white suite though) it isn’t perfect but it’s a lot better then it was and looks relatively modern now.

When we originally had a buyer we had an offer accepted on a property and all the paperwork was completed the same as ours. The seller is happy to wait for us to find a new buyer but didn’t say how long for… we also wanted to move before September as we need to move our daughter schools.

the problem is a lot of our feedback is the same negative points and we don’t know what else to do know to sell again.

the same points are normally

• Access issues - to access our house u drive uphill to a shared drive way, there are 5 garages and 3 visitor parking spaces. The houses are located directly behind. It is not suitable if you have mobility issues.

• The gardens - back gardens to small , front has no privacy (all the neighbours use their front ones, but ours is just grass and pathed)

• The parking - because there are 3 visitor spaces it is tight to get your car into the garages but several neighbours do.

We don’t know what else to do at the point because these are things we can’t change. We bought the house because we could afford it at reduced price due to it needing work so these issues were okay to compromise on to get in the property ladder at the time. We have dropped the price now from 180k to 170-180 guide price. Any advice welcome because I don’t know what else to do at the point.

There's a saying in Sales that "anything is only worth what someone will pay for it". Often rhyme or reason don't apply and sometimes it's just timing.
You possibly seem to be in that classic trap of holding on to a valuation that was never achievable. Everything will sell, but at the right price. Your options are to reduce the price or wait (however long it takes) for the market to reach your valuation.

Another Estate Agent valued it at 190k, the other two 180k. I've dropped it to 170k but I understand what your saying I'm probably gonna drop price again now.

A £50/55k increase in the last 5 years isn’t going to fly regardless of the work that has been done. I think you need to drop the price.

I’d also avoid things like guide prices or ranges. They cause confusion.

I have a path running through the front of my garden up the door. There is a grate to the right infront of the house. So it's abit of a tricky one to do a lot with unless we started taking the slabbed path up. It's private as in no one drives up unless they live or visit but not private in regards to neighbours.

Honestly the other two issues I could live with but I would never buy somewhere that couldn’t be accessed if I had mobility issues because it’s one of those things that can just happen one day suddenly. I was on crutches for a summer when I was 12 and now I’m paranoid.

Honestly it doesn’t sound like there’s much you can do other than stick it out. Sounds like it’s at a good price and if I was you I’d wait a bit before your drop it, but that’s just me.

Prices haven't actually moved that much in the last five years. have you spent £45 grand on it doing it up? Have a look at what you can get for the same money in the same area and try to be honest with yourself about how yours compares. As a pp said, it'll be perfect for someone, so you either wait for that perfect person, or you drop the price to make it appeal to more people with it's draw backs. And as you want a school move time isn't on your side.
When I look at houses, privacy, parking and garden size are bigger factors than then state of the house, the state I can fix, those other external factors I can't do therefore any house with those compromises would be worth less to me and I'd be tempted only if it was exceptionally good value for the area.

Also when comparing prices locally you need to look at sold prices not listed prices. You may well be comparable to local listed prices but they haven’t sold either.

Fair enough, the Estate Agent doesn't use Offers Over so that's why we went with a guide price as suggested by them.

2021 wasn’t far off the peak for property prices in recent years. It probably needs to be more in line with what your neighbors paid for their done up version, so maybe £150k.

There are 3 reasons a property won’t sell - price price and price!

We have had a lot of help and favours so probably 10k but would of been more if we hadn't done a lot our selves or had favours from family and friends in Trades. Similar up are up for around the same price. More desirable ones about 180/190k. That's fair point I'm probably gonna drop the price now.

Another neighbour bought theirs for 160k a year ago. It needed the whole house doing up.

Your listing needs to include a plan and better description.

Price is always important but don't let people be disappointed when they view when more information would help.

I'm finding it hard to picture but any chance the parking issue could be solved by turning your front garden into a parking space? Or even just showing the potential for it somehow? And when you say the neighbours use theirs, do you mean they've all grown hedges or something to make them more private and use it like a back garden?
The vast majority of people find it really hard to imagine something being different to its current state, and many buyers don't have a lot of spare cash to improve things, so if you can make a few changes to present something differently and give them an idea, that could help.

It has a floor plan, measurements , 360 inside view of the house and I have had the Estate Agent change the description to better reflect the draw backs.

The estate agents did what estate estate agents do - exaggerate the price so they hopefully get a higher commission upon the property selling. This is a buyer’s market so you need to do everything you can to make the property attractive and in your case it’s lowering the price.

The average property increase is 20% since 2021. Did you know this? What justifies your property going up by more than double that?

Unfortunately the garages are in front of the houses, we all use a shared path behind it access our garden / front doors. My house is in the middle so the end properties either side are more private as u don't walk past them to your house.

It hasn't gone up double, I had to do a lot of work to it . My neighbour bought same years as ours for 140k. Mine is now up for 170k...

Feedback is always stuff you can’t change, which is why feedback is pretty useless. If it was easily changeable it wouldn’t put buyers off, they would just buy the house and then change it.

However someone will still buy it with the access/
parking/ small garden issues if it is the right price. Clearly buyers don’t think the price is right to compensate for those compromises. So you’ll need to drop the price to sell.

you can’t assume that doing £45k work increases the value by £45k.

I had a similar issue.

• garden too small/overlooked
• kitchen medium sized - local demand is for huge open plan
• house layout, have to walk through lounge to access all the other downstairs rooms rather than them being off a central hall.

We dropped the price and sold. A neighbour with a similar house has stubbornly refused to and is still sat on the market 7 months later.

Maybe they overpaid. If yours was competitively priced you'd have buyers wanting it.

That is exactly my point Op, it appears both estate agents valued it at an unachievable price.

I bet they would have given you a different valuation if you said "if I don't sell at 190/180k minus £5k, you don't get paid".

Fair point, we had a lot more interest when we dropped the price but same feedback again.

Ah I see, maybe a hedge would increase the feeling of privacy? Or embrace that it's not private and fill it with flowers so the Instant reaction is omg this is gorgeous. Make your front garden so pretty that they don't notice the neighbours.