Nobody wants to view my house ! :-(

[aliceBB]

How MUCH larger must something be before you'll allow a description of "a lot larger" then?

 

Personally 50% larger is enough for me. What size guest room people want isn't the point, semantically 50% larger is "a lot larger".

 

Oh, for crying out loud. Regardless of whether the area of a small room is mathematically 40% larger than the area of an even small room, what matters is people's perception of how useful that room is to them.

 

As I said, 50% larger than 'very small' is still 'pretty' small. Now I suggest you go and look up the difference between semantic and pragmatic meaning and think about why the latter is more useful in this context.

 

I'm getting rather bored of your obsessively literal approach, so I think on that note, we must agree to differ.

 

OP, good luck with selling your house.

[DerbyTup]

We are selling our lovely home.

 

It has been on the market for 5 weeks and we have had no viewings at all !

 

We arranged an open viewing last Saturday..................not a sausage !

 

I am chasing up the estate agent every other day ...........still nothing !

 

We have now reduced the price from 210K to 199,500K, theory is that it will be picked up in the search criteria up to 200K..............still nothing !

 

It is a lovely, modern, spacious family home in a good location.

 

Private corner plot on a quiet cul-de-sac - couldn't wish for better neighbours.

 

The feedback we are getting is that it is due to the S5 postcode ?

 

I am now loosing the will to live - comments and advice please!!!

 

5 weeks and you are losing the will to live? Man! Are you stuck in a 1980's time warp or something? Back then houses would sell in a few days, but this is a buyers market nowadays. Have you not heard that there's a recession on and the economy, including the housing market, is depressed?

 

My brother just sold his property after 3 years on the market. Admittedly, it was a bit of an unusual property in terms of the remote location, but realistically, you are going to have to wait months in the current market.

 

If you are competing with new builds in the same area it's even harder as they tend to offer all kinds of incentives.

 

And if you are asking considerably more than similar properties then you are putting yourself at a disadvantage from the off - unless you have some special redeeming features that make it more desirable than the nearby similar properties to most buyers - and that doesn't mean a coy carp pond or something trivial like that.

 

I put my house on the market 18 months ago to see what interest there might be. I was half thinking about taking the equity and buying some land and building exactly what I wanted from scratch. It was on the market just over a year. I had two viewings in that time. This is a 5 bed house in a "posh" area of Sheffield.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about your postcode mate. I'd make sure it looks presentable and is competitively priced. Also I'd be into the estate agents ribs for regular feedback - how many brochures have they given out this week? How many leads from those? How many have the followed up? What feedback did they give to you from any viewings you have had?

 

Do you know you can also search online for what price other properties actually sold for in your area? This might give you some insight.

 

Most of all, I'd be patient if I were you. The economy is picking up slightly but it is going to be a long time before the housing market is buoyant again.

 

Who's your likely buyer btw? Elderly retired couple, young couple with family? first time buyer? Depending on this you might decide to market it with a different emphasis.

 

(and no, I'm not an estate agent - just someone who has been through this many, many times. More than most folk I would imagine - having moved all around the UK and Europe with my job).

[Cyclone]

Oh, for crying out loud. Regardless of whether the area of a small room is mathematically 40% larger than the area of an even small room, what matters is people's perception of how useful that room is to them.

 

As I said, 50% larger than 'very small' is still 'pretty' small. Now I suggest you go and look up the difference between semantic and pragmatic meaning and think about why the latter is more useful in this context.

 

I'm getting rather bored of your obsessively literal approach, so I think on that note, we must agree to differ.

 

OP, good luck with selling your house.

 

Well, no, you didn't say that. You said "It's not a lot larger", when you appear to have meant, "it's still pretty small".

There's nothing obsessively literal about thinking 50% bigger is "a lot larger". You were trying to change what the phrase means to be something else.

 

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DerbyTup - there is no recession.