For Sale: Stunning house in rural Cambridgeshire

My parents have had their house up for sale for a while now, and barely any viewings at all. The two that have seen, wish to buy but have their own properties to sell first. My parents need to really sell now ASAP, as they have been waiting months to make an offer on another property - and there's only so long before someone else makes an offer!

So if anyone wants to live in a lovely village with good links to Cambridge, Peterborough and London (Train station is 20 minutes away and has trains every 15 minutes to London) - please do take a look at this house! The photo's do not do the house justice; it is absolutely stunning and very 'private' feeling to it. There's a lot of character, a lot of house, a lot of extra outbuildings, a lot of parking (owned driveway), a lot of garden, and even a solar heated indoor swimming pool, all for such a small price!

There are two separate links (from different estate agents):

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...?premiumA=true

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-25163214.html

As I said, the photo's really don't do the house justice - the rooms look small in the photo's (in my honest opinion) when they are much larger in size.
The first link has more photos and a floor plan, but the second link is the current estate agents.

Also, if anyone has any idea's on how to improve viewings (a lot of people seem to be looking online, but we need people through the door because we know they will fall in love with the house!) then please, all advice welcome

 

I've looked on zoopla - what do you mean by estimate? I can't see what you're looking at? (Sorry, i sound a bit ditzy!)

And both estate agents (onto the second one now) has said the asking price is absolutely fine, they don't think there's anything wrong with it

Edit: Do you mean the "4 bedroom properties in PE28" bit? If so, PE28 is a massive area, including a lot of villages and towns, and also the city of Peterborough. It's not very accurate to the specific village, nor the type of house with all the extra's you get with it. For example, the estimate could include 4 bedroom terraced houses, properties with no gardens, no private off road parking, no outbuildings etc.
Either way, my parents are considering lowering the price anyway for a quick sale, even though the estate agents think the price is spot on. It would be a shame though, as you get a lot of house for the money, a lot of gardens/plot, a lot of outbuildings/car ports/parking, as well as an annexe potential and the indoor swimming pool.

There are two other properties in the Village for the same price, both being 4 bedrooms. Neither have anywhere near as much land, no outbuildings, off road parking, annexe etc. let alone the indoor swimming pool! (if they want it, if the buyers don't my parents have made it clear the swimming pool can be taken down before the buyers move in - then there would be two annexes!)

 

Being next door to a newsagents could put people off and that mass of shrubbery in the front garden might make it look as if they are try to shut themselves off from some problem, plus there doesn't appear to be any obvious vehicular access from the front of the property and there's only very sketchy information in both estate agents' particulars regarding how this access is achieved - is a remote, shared access vulnerable to obstruction and inconvenient for visitors? (from streetview)

 

JWK In the absence of previous sold price data at the Land Registry for that property, the Zoopla estimate may well be crudely based on recently sold/updated previously sold prices for properties simply with the same number of bedrooms in the same area.

 

Cheers for that John, I didn't know about the Zoopla estimates, checked mine and it was only £124k

Refined the estimate with more details and its now £234k

No wonder its not getting viewed much.

 

Just found that there is some previous sold price info. ( £106,500 in 1996) and checking that against another property in the same postcode area Zoopla seem to be estimating current prices by assuming all property values have increased three-fold since then. What may not have been taken into account are extensions/improvements/etc. that have been carried out since that last sale, and the info. on the Valuation Office website indicates that there has been improvements to the property (Isn't it amazing all the stuff you can find out on the internet?).

 

Well that did the trick, half an hour later someone knocked on the door wanting to see the place

 

I toyed with the idea of upping the Zoopla estimated value of Castle Scrunge to a really impressive amount, but chickened out when I thought these values might be used in the event of a re-valuation for Council Tax banding purposes.

 

The news agents is detached. To the other side of the property there is a small attached house (very small). Beside that is the large private owned by us driveway, which goes behind the first part of the garden to one of our gates, and also even further back to the next set of gates. It is the houses owned driveway, but we do allow the small house neighbour to park in an allocated area of the driveway.

 

You are quite right here. As much as my parents purchased the house for a much less price, and have since sold two plots of land (so there was even bigger garden then there is now, believe it or not!) the house was a sham. It was rotten through the core with cat urine and other unpleasantries. It has only just been totally finished off completely for the sale.

How do you go about changing the estimate? As it is way off base!

 

Register with Zoopla then you claim the house as your own, you then get the option of filling in loads of details (athough sadly there is no option of adding solar panels) uploading pics and doing a write up.