Seaham - What's it like?

EdGey

EdGey

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It's exactly between mine and the wife's jobs and we're looking at houses.

Google tells me it's a nice area, but then google also tells me that Burnley is a nice area...

Aside from being North of the M25 and thus beneath you, what's it like? A nice seaside town? One to avoid?
 
Seaham has changed a massive amount over the past decade (for the better) and almost unrecognisable from my childhood visiting grandparents, harbour is lovely, load of places to eat, good shopping just out of town at Dalton Park.

Presume you would be buying on one of the newer housing estates?
 
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EdGey said:
Google tells me it's a nice area, but then google also tells me that Burnley is a nice area...
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My uncle moved back to the UK from Hong Kong when he retired - he was so used to getting the most square meters for his dollar, that Burnley was where Google told him to look when buying a house here...

£109k for an 8 bedroom ex-HMO, which he bought without a survey or viewing beforehand, after losing £3k in fees trying to buy a former corner shop.

...we warned him, repeatedly.

The "8 bedrooms" turned out to be a 3 bed terrace with an illegal loft conversion and many bunkbeds in the dining room, lounge and asbestos garage at the end of the garden...

Compared to his 3 bed condo in Repulse Bay, he still thinks he got a bargain.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Presume you would be buying on one of the newer housing estates?
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Not necessarily, we've never really been drawn to new-builds, except for the more unique and usually larger examples, which I expect will sit uncomfortably close to/over our max budget - but we remain open minded.

Thanks for comments, people.
 
I'm in Sunderland so not far away (near the town centre)
Seaham is generally fine not really a "bad" place in it it's been improved allot over the years. Just by the sea which is nice lots of hilly areas.

Although good luck with the market, it's genuinely crap right now.

Just don't go further south, Murton, Peterlee etc best avoided
 
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