{"id":19535,"date":"2018-07-31T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T08:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=19535"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:21:38","slug":"how-not-to-sell-a-home-the-20-biggest-property-turn-offs-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/2018\/07\/31\/how-not-to-sell-a-home-the-20-biggest-property-turn-offs-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to sell a home: the 20 biggest property turn-offs revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selling property – as well as showing it to prospective tenants – can be a tricky business, but you can make it easier by avoiding these common mistakes…<\/strong><\/p>\n

With huge sums of money being handed over in any property purchase<\/a>, buyers have a right to be slightly fussy when they’re looking around a potential new home or property investment<\/a>, and the same can be said for renters<\/a> looking for their next pad.<\/p>\n

New research conducted by GoCompare into what buyers find the most off-putting features in any home has revealed that damp – or more specifically, damp stains on walls and ceilings – was the number one turn-off with 69% of people saying they’d think twice about investing in any home that had this lurking within.<\/p>\n

While it is unsightly, damp can also be costly and difficult to resolve, particularly in older homes<\/a> if they are badly insulated and single-glazed<\/a>, which is probably why most people would walk away. As a prospective tenant, the idea of living in a home which might be prone to damp isn’t an attractive one, which is why any landlord<\/a> or investor with damp problems in their property would find it easier to let it in the long run by resolving this issue.<\/p>\n

Bad smells such as food, pets<\/a> or cigarette smoke were next on the list for 63% of respondents despite this being a relatively easy to fix problem depending on the cause and extent, while a home in a poor state of repair<\/a> with rotten window frames and peeling paintwork was a no-no for 59% of people.<\/p>\n

Here’s the full breakdown of the top 20 things that put people off buying a property:<\/p>\n

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  1. Damp stains on walls and ceilings \u2013 69%<\/li>\n
  2. Bad smells (e.g. damp, food, cigarettes, pets, etc.) \u2013 63%<\/li>\n
  3. Property in poor state of repair (rotten window frames, peeling paintwork, etc.) \u2013 59%<\/li>\n
  4. No parking \u2013 56%<\/li>\n
  5. Broadband blackspot \u2013 53%<\/li>\n
  6. Unfinished building work \u2013 53%<\/li>\n
  7. No garden \u2013 52%<\/li>\n
  8. Property not connected to mains gas \u2013 51%<\/li>\n
  9. Rubbish strewn in neighbouring gardens \u2013 48%<\/li>\n
  10. A dirty house \u2013 46%<\/li>\n
  11. Outdated electricals\/wiring \u2013 46%<\/li>\n
  12. Poor natural light\/dark rooms \u2013 43%<\/li>\n
  13. Dilapidated neighbouring property \u2013 43%<\/li>\n
  14. Proximity to major road or motorway \u2013 43%<\/li>\n
  15. Small room sizes \u2013 40%<\/li>\n
  16. Small kitchen \u2013 39%<\/li>\n
  17. Bad DIY \u2013 38%<\/li>\n
  18. Student let next door \u2013 37%<\/li>\n
  19. Old boiler or central heating system \u2013 37%<\/li>\n
  20. Stone cladding, render or pebble dash on exterior walls \u2013 31%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Selling property – as well as showing it to prospective tenants – can be a tricky business, but you can make it easier by avoiding these common mistakes… With huge sums of money being handed over in any property purchase, buyers have a right to be slightly fussy when they’re looking around a potential new… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":19540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[341,317],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097338,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535\/revisions\/6097338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}