Not a realtor but have worked with a great one several times. May help to virtually stage furniture in the pictures to help people envision living there.

Is the master bedroom upstairs? That is a turnoff to a lot of people.

I live on opposite side of Houston...2 houses in our section for sale and aren't moving.
Wrong time of year to be selling unless you are in super desirable area like inside the loop or maybe Katy or woodlands
Also lots of folks are still waiting for rates to come down some more

Bad time of year. Just wait it out.

$148/SF is a screaming deal on a price per sqft IMO. In any market that should be true.

If master is upstairs, then that is a drawback. And this is a home for for a first time homebuyer/starter home. Economy is not as it had been publicized, especially for average home buyer. $3k/month as a payment for a sub $400k house is stiff.

Separate issue but the curb appeal is kinda struggling. It's kinda a square box. The double garage doors with large brick wall and single window gives it a stale 4-plex type look. Not sure what to do though. Only thing I can think of is maybe a wall mounted basketball goal above the split in the garage.

Having your cover photo be taken at some angle might reduce the cubism feel some.

Maybe someone else might have some ideas.

Would agree it's probably timing. They listed after the Summer selling season, which is a big deal in suburbia.

Best to wait it out if they can. Should start to pick up in a few months.

If a house isn't moving, 99% of the time it's price. Maybe the price "feels" good. But as mentioned, the likely buyer for this house is probably feeling the pinch like no other time in their life. The market is speaking, and it's telling you that the house as advertised isn't worth the price. So it's either the advertising, or it's the price. You either advertise better and hope for the best, or drop the price.

Bc it's Missouri City ?

MS08 said:

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$148/SF is a screaming deal on a price per sqft IMO. In any market that should be true.

If master is upstairs, then that is a drawback. And this is a home for for a first time homebuyer/starter home. Economy is not as it had been publicized, especially for average home buyer. $3k/month as a payment for a sub $400k house is stiff.

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It's pretty crazy that a house considered a starter home costs ~$400k.

Truth.

Sienna Plantation. An hour to civilization. How much water did it get in Harvey? Funny, people still want to know that. Ridge Point HS, 30% White, 27% Hispanic, 23% Black.

Nice stuff out there. It's just out there. My GP lives out here & used to commute to I-10/Campbell where Village Medical is located. Then moved a bit closer to the I-69/Sugar Lakes location. Finally said screw that & retired since he wanted to know his kids.

It's price. If I look in your immediate area, there's a house on N Barnett with updates and more development in the yard and better layout listed $20k higher than you that I'd easily pay more than $20k for over the Andrew's house. It's also not moving but I'd assume some of that is seasonal. I'd suspect that's your closest comp in the area, it also isn't moving and it's priced significantly better relatively speaking.

Remove the 5 and 6 year old big ticket item replacements from the ad too. These are late 90's houses so advertising things 30-50% through their useful life isn't really the hot selling item you or the realtor seem to think it is. I'd guess the vast majority of the houses in the area are on par or better when it comes to useful life of your water heater, HVAC and roof just based on home age and how long those things typically last.

I'm sure many don't notice... But there are issues with the photos at are a HUGE turnoff for me. Every time I've been in the market, ANY listing where I noticed what I'll describe below I would immediately move along and never looked back. I think more and more buyers do the vast majority of their looking online and for every house they actually step foot in, they've probably done 10-20 "showings" of listings online that they never mentioned to their realtor. You can't lose the showing online!!!

Get very good photos and showcase the home properly.

Whomever took and posted those photos doesn't know what aspect ratio is. EVERY photo is stretched in one direction or another. I presume they were taken with their phone and then forced to fit a web template that didn't match. IF I had to guess, the phone is probably taking photos in 16:9 and the broker's web template is using a more traditional 4:3 or 35mm film based aspect ratio.

From one photo to the next the floor tiles are different widths. In one photo the kitchen island looks square and in the very next it's a long rectangle. Look at the dining nook; the back wall appears radically different from one photo to the next.

I quit scrolling before I even got to the photos of the bedrooms. But from the photos I've looked at, I can't get a feel for what size the rooms and spaces are. With or without staging I have no idea, and even adding staged furnishings won't help if there isn't consistency in size from one photo to the next. If I can't tell the size or even the shape of that island is, how can I tell how big the table is or if that bed is a King or just a Full?

I realize it's not something everyone notices, and these aren't the worst I've seen. But don't give any viewer a reason to keep scrolling. I REALLY wish more realtors paid attention to these details. Maybe it's just me...

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Pictures are boring and a turn off. Without being staged, and everything being the same color, I had a hard time making it through more than the first few. No way to tell what room is what, or how it flows.

If it's a perfect cul de sac, why not have a nice drone shot showing it's position? Or photos of the street void of beat up cars parking on the street?

Large backyard is the biggest selling piece to me, but seems to be an afterthought in the photos. Maybe have some cad designs mocked up with patio cover, landscaping, or a pool idea. Our last house had those in the listing, and it's what caught my wife's eye.

The write up is difficult to read. It feels like someone reading straight off a power point.

Also it's $5k above the Zestimate. We know those aren't right, but that's like a store asking $4 for a bag of chips with $2.99 printed on the front of the bag.

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bulletproof logic

This a first time home owner price point, and rates over 7% is really squeezing the affordably of most first time home buyers which of course hurts that part of the market.

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That site showing the location as a Major flood risk likely does not help. Is that even true? May ask them to re-evaluate that.

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Lol. Zillow is absolute trash at knowing anything about a property or area.