Neighbours from nowhere near hell
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I don't know if anyone can help me with this.Indeed.I'm not even sure that I have a serious problem. However here goes -
I live in a quiet village in Worcestershire.The street is of mixed housing with a few half timber houses going back several centuries - 2 different generations, (one post WW1, one post WW2) of housing association (ex council)houses and a number buildt in the last 40 years. My house is one of the more expensive newer builds.
We have been on the market for a year and have had 5 definite very interested buyers, all of whom have backed out after walking to the end of the street, about 100 yd away, and looking at the state of the 2 ex housing association but now privately owned houses with cars, pallets of building materials, rusty trailers etc litering the fronts of their houses. All of which have been in place for at least seven years.
Now I can't complain about the street. It's as quiet as can be after 7:30 PM and the neighbours give no trouble whatsoever. However, as soon as prospective purchases take a look, they immediately back off.
. I'm not sure how to move things on. I've reduced the price, but that is not what seems to influence the buyers. Do I just reconcile myself to this? Does anybody have any experience of a similar occurrence? I appreciate that there are a lot of people who are in far far worse neighbourhood situations than I am but the house and gardens are now beyond our ability to maintain and we need to downsize whilst we still have the strength
I live in a quiet village in Worcestershire.The street is of mixed housing with a few half timber houses going back several centuries - 2 different generations, (one post WW1, one post WW2) of housing association (ex council)houses and a number buildt in the last 40 years. My house is one of the more expensive newer builds.
We have been on the market for a year and have had 5 definite very interested buyers, all of whom have backed out after walking to the end of the street, about 100 yd away, and looking at the state of the 2 ex housing association but now privately owned houses with cars, pallets of building materials, rusty trailers etc litering the fronts of their houses. All of which have been in place for at least seven years.
Now I can't complain about the street. It's as quiet as can be after 7:30 PM and the neighbours give no trouble whatsoever. However, as soon as prospective purchases take a look, they immediately back off.
. I'm not sure how to move things on. I've reduced the price, but that is not what seems to influence the buyers. Do I just reconcile myself to this? Does anybody have any experience of a similar occurrence? I appreciate that there are a lot of people who are in far far worse neighbourhood situations than I am but the house and gardens are now beyond our ability to maintain and we need to downsize whilst we still have the strength
loggo said:
I don't know if anyone can help me with this.Indeed.I'm not even sure that I have a serious problem. However here goes -
I live in a quiet village in Worcestershire.The street is of mixed housing with a few half timber houses going back several centuries - 2 different generations, (one post WW1, one post WW2) of housing association (ex council)houses and a number buildt in the last 40 years. My house is one of the more expensive newer builds.
We have been on the market for a year and have had 5 definite very interested buyers, all of whom have backed out after walking to the end of the street, about 100 yd away, and looking at the state of the 2 ex housing association but now privately owned houses with cars, pallets of building materials, rusty trailers etc litering the fronts of their houses. All of which have been in place for at least seven years.
Now I can't complain about the street. It's as quiet as can be after 7:30 PM and the neighbours give no trouble whatsoever. However, as soon as prospective purchases take a look, they immediately back off.
. I'm not sure how to move things on. I've reduced the price, but that is not what seems to influence the buyers. Do I just reconcile myself to this? Does anybody have any experience of a similar occurrence? I appreciate that there are a lot of people who are in far far worse neighbourhood situations than I am but the house and gardens are now beyond our ability to maintain and we need to downsize whilst we still have the strength
I know you've said you have reduced the price but its obviously not enough. Anything will sell if the value is right.I live in a quiet village in Worcestershire.The street is of mixed housing with a few half timber houses going back several centuries - 2 different generations, (one post WW1, one post WW2) of housing association (ex council)houses and a number buildt in the last 40 years. My house is one of the more expensive newer builds.
We have been on the market for a year and have had 5 definite very interested buyers, all of whom have backed out after walking to the end of the street, about 100 yd away, and looking at the state of the 2 ex housing association but now privately owned houses with cars, pallets of building materials, rusty trailers etc litering the fronts of their houses. All of which have been in place for at least seven years.
Now I can't complain about the street. It's as quiet as can be after 7:30 PM and the neighbours give no trouble whatsoever. However, as soon as prospective purchases take a look, they immediately back off.
. I'm not sure how to move things on. I've reduced the price, but that is not what seems to influence the buyers. Do I just reconcile myself to this? Does anybody have any experience of a similar occurrence? I appreciate that there are a lot of people who are in far far worse neighbourhood situations than I am but the house and gardens are now beyond our ability to maintain and we need to downsize whilst we still have the strength
Doesn't mean you need to give it away but it does need to be a lot cheaper than the same size / spec house without the outside drawbacks.
I know someone who lived under the flight landing path for Gatwick. I was in the garden for the first time and it was genuinely shocking when the first jet went over. They put their house up for £800k and it got snapped up.
Another person I know bought a house next to a working garage / petrol station, railway level crossing and station and big country pub that does events. Paid £650k but the same house without those would have been £800k in the same general area.
You just need the right buyer which will be a combination of time and price. If you want to speed up the time you have to compromise on price.
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