shaznay Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 the house looks very well presented with a lovely garden the photos are fine ..... just a really bad time for selling I'm afraid ..... not sure what the area is like but the price looks very fair to me would renting it out be an option ?
QueenKatie Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 It looks like a bargain! The inside is really nice especially the bathroom and kitchen and people will see those and be well impressed. A couple of things that you might think about (depending on how much time and energy you have) 1. If you have 5 minutes, people often just look at picture 1 on the slideshow on RightMove, and that first pic of the front of the house is probably the weakest in your set. Try putting the kitchen on instead? 2. If you have 15 minutes, speak to your estate agent and get them to rewrite the brochure, stressing the good points more strongly- the proximity of a safe park, strong community area, modern kitchen and bathroom, large garden. (It never fails to amaze me now incredibly bad estate agents are at marketing, almost across the board). 3. If you have a free day, try just tarting up the front of the house a bit more - maybe trim back the bushes, give the door a fresh lick of paint in a lighter colour (e.g. red), put up a hanging basket and some window boxes. 4. If you have a free weekend or two, beg, borrow, steal, or Freecycle a few bits of furniture, e.g. a bed, a table. Dress them up nicely with some cheap paper napkins, plates, wine glasses, and ikea candles. It's easier to sell a place furnished than not, even if you only put a couple of very basic items in there. I know it's a total pain (I just lived without my furniture for the best part of a year while selling a place) but it does make a difference. If you got new stuff, you could always recoup the cost by offering it with the house, since first time buyers are probably a pretty key market for you. Hang in there. Times are tough at the moment, but it will sell eventually. Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Sierra Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 The pictures are nice and show the home well. All the info is there. It's clean and uncluttered with a nice yard. What's not to like? Be patient, I bet it will sell.
Rupert_Baehr Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 The advert looks good, but as Shaznay said, it's probably a bad time of year to be selling a house.
Adrenalin Posted November 22, 2011 Author Posted November 22, 2011 Hi James Thanks for the feedback the house has been on the website for about 10 weeks, a long time! I don't think emoooov make any effort after they recieve their money Many thanks ... mark
Adrenalin Posted November 22, 2011 Author Posted November 22, 2011 Fantastic feedback Katy .. really appreciate it... I certainly will put in action what you've mentioned!! All the best Mark
Strix Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 I second everything Katie has said I also did a search for properties in your price bracket to see what came up - that should give you an idea of what you're up against. Think like a buyer, and decide why you would or wouldn't buy this house over another... and yes, pricing too cheaply can set off alarm bells! The very first thing I'd do is tackle the frontage photo. It looks cold and dark - not warm and homely. Lose the blue front door - red would be much warmer and goes better with the house bricks, but choose a deep red so it doesn't put any Owls off Trim back the greenery, and find something winter flowering to lift the scene Curtains! Get something up at those windows so they're not hollow black holes There's a house in Woodhouse that looks pretty scrappy in it's search list thumbnail, but it's absolutely fantastic inside, and it's a place I like when walking past, so I've no idea how the agents got it to look so bad! I desperately want to knock and tell them to get it sorted out http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-33069941.html?backListLink=%2Fproperty-for-sale%2Fmap.html%3FlocationIdentifier%3DREGION%255E27349%26insId%3D2%26minBedrooms%3D3%23_includeSSTC%3Don%26auction%3Dfalse%26locationIdentifier%3DREGION%255E27349%26minBedrooms%3D3%26previousSearchLocation%3DWoodhouse%26radius%3D0.0%26searchLocation%3DWoodhouse%26searchType%3DSALE%26useLocationIdentifier%3Dfalse%26box%3D-1.38132%2C-1.35256%2C53.35345%2C53.36249%26popupPropertyId%3D33069941%26mapType%3DMap&fromMap=true
Vague_Boy Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 not sure what the area is like but the price looks very fair to me Clearly it can't be as it would have sold by now. If you want to sell, you need to price for the market in 2011, not 2007. If you look at this history of sold prices for Everingham Road (link) you'll see that a similar house sold in 2004 for £35,000. And that was when credit was plentiful. It won't be like that for many years to come. Second credit crunch looms In 2002 one house sold for £14,750. Why do people find it quite unremarkable that prices can treble and quintuple within a few years yet simply cannot accept that they can also go the other way? The pictures look fine, in fact they're very good. But you can't blame Rightmove or the estate agents. They had no trouble shifting stuff when the housing bubble was in full swing. Have they suddenly become apathetic or incompetent? Remember, it's a housing market, no guarantees are offered. "Past performance isn’t necessarily a guide to the future and prices can fall as well as rise". If you truly want to sell now, you need to keep lowering the price until you find a level that the market will sustain.
Rupert_Baehr Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 I have a house offered for sale through a website operated by a German company. If E-Move work in the same way as the company I'm using, you probably won't get much from them. - All I get (and all I expect) is that they forward queries to me. It is, after all, an online website, not a full-service Estate Agent. - They don't take people out to view the house (nor do they charge what an agent who did that would!) I've had some enquiries from genuine buyers (plus a few who would like to take it off my hands for a song should I want to get rid of it urgently - which I do not.) It appears - although Germany never got into the house buying frenzy which occurred in the UK and elsewhere - (a ridiculous spiral of rapidly-rising prices) that not only are buyers in fairly short supply, but lenders are offering smaller mortgages and a few of those who have been genuinely interested couldn't find the deposit required by the banks. If my house sells within the next 4 or 5 months, it sells. If it doesn't, it will come off the market and I will live in it during the summer (which was my intention when I bought it.)
shaznay Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 I didnt know you paid up front for selling a property I thought the estate agent took their fee when the house was sold perhaps it might have been worth going with one of the big estate agents although thats still no guaruntee of a quick sale these days It will sell eventually maybe next spring when the market usually picks up good luck
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