Nobody wants to view my house ! :-(

[Olive]

At first glance it seems ultra modern and well-designed, although not everyone wants ultra modern, of course.However, these things may be putitng people off:

 

The 'blurb' is amateurish - did the estate agent write this?

 

Only the main bedroom is a decent size - the other two are small (9' x 8' ish).

 

The wall-writing is squirmy - I'd get rid of it. The tangerine is a bit much, too.

 

Elaborating on this - there doesn't look to be anything wrong with the house or the way it's presented. It looks in good order. Yes the orange is maybe quite personal, but probably not something to worry about unnecessarily.

 

If it's in good nick, well presented and on Rightmove, then really the main problem will be the price (and by that I mean how it's priced for the area). It's still nearly £200k for a 3-bed, two of which are quite small. I'm not sure that changing estate agents would change the fundamental issue of the price /room number and size / location.

[Cyclone]

Did you get multiple valuations initially, and did you take an average, or the highest one?

[geared]

To be fair, if you look at all the 3-bed Properties (on Rightmove, 180 in total) in S5, the OP's house is the most expensive.

 

And by 20 grand as well.

[mogwai84]

just to add some balance, we bought via Haybrooks (Hillsborough) and found them to be really good.

[nightrider]

I have noticed properties have shot up in price in the last 6 months.

 

I am looking for a property in S6 but it seems everything has had £10k slapped on last years prices.

 

The economy is picking up but wages need to start going up before another property boom.

 

More than 10k I think, and most "sell" for well over asking prices (though often they seem to come back on the market a month later, not sure why - people bidding up so much they can't get a mortgage to match?)

[Bloobell67]

Hi - some great feedback on here for you - the only thing I would add is to check your selling price to be a round number?

 

IE go for £195k or £200k - price increments go up by £5k on Rightmove, if someone is looking just over the £200k price range for eg and enters £200-£210k - then your house won't even come up in their search? If they are looking up to £200k which you say is the reason why you dropped to £199500, your house will still come up regardless if it was on at £200k so your house comes up in both searches?

 

That's some good advice I had which I thought would be useful to share.

 

Also, are you with Zoopla as well as Rightmove?

Edited March 13, 2015 by Bloobell67

[Cyclone]

More than 10k I think, and most "sell" for well over asking prices (though often they seem to come back on the market a month later, not sure why - people bidding up so much they can't get a mortgage to match?)

 

I'm not sure this is true at all. I've been selling for quite some time in S6, and it's taken a while before we've finally had an offer at under the asking price that we've accepted.

We had plenty of viewers, and comparing to similar properties we weren't over priced (and the house was well presented and maintained, although empty). The offers just didn't come in, and certainly not over the asking price.

[geared]

Unless it's somewhere like Bradfield I can't see people wading in and offering over the asking price.

 

Don't get me wrong, S6 is a nice area - but going in over the asking price is London practise.

[BIGDINNERS]

nice house, but at £200k its in the wrong area, you can pick up a 3 bedroomed ex council in the same area for around £70-80k, blame the estate agents for over inflating the prices in the first place. they know what their doing:suspect:

 

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The last house I purchased 6 months ago took 2 weeks of constant daily pestering by myself, before the estate agent decided to put my offer forward to the seller. It appeared that they didn't want to sell the property because the market value had dropped,the house had been listed for almost 2 years ,originally at £15k more than the asking price I'd seen it at,

The seller agreed to sell as soon as they'd been given my offer.

 

Estate agents take the ****:loopy:

[denlin]

TBH we live in a two bedroom terraced house not far from OP and our living room is 13ft sq, the kitchen is a lot bigger and the bathroom has a bath and a shower. It's been modernised and worth about £40,000 I would think. I can't see anything in S5 postcode getting best part of £200k. Nobody with that kind of money would choose this area