The nervous wait to exchange....
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We downsized when I was seventy. I don't want to move again but the missus fancies a bungalow.
Regarding site maintenance we live on a nineteen sixties built estate and I maintain as far as the road gutter regarding weeds and rubbish accumulation. Ie across the footpath and kerb.
Regarding site maintenance we live on a nineteen sixties built estate and I maintain as far as the road gutter regarding weeds and rubbish accumulation. Ie across the footpath and kerb.
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Couldn’t face moving again, at least not until retirement. I was even offered a free house for the duration of my new job (it was pretty decent too) and I still couldn’t face the upheaval.
The first one is definitely nice but i would have expected a kitchen more like the third one for the priceWe have been looking at this:
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4 bedroom detached house for sale in Shurdington, Cheltenham, GL51 for £1,100,000. Marketed by Hamptons, Cheltenhamwww.rightmove.co.uk
Just the wrong time. The boy is in nursery full time and that's nearly £1400 a month. Once he's in school something like this should be possible, depending on what the wife does work wise. We could technically pass the affordability tests at the moment, but we'd have no money to do anything else. No holidays, no meals out, eating beans on toast. And living on the edge if I were made redundant. Not something I want to put my family through.
Versus the plot we were looking at:
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4 bedroom detached house for sale in Plot 19, Leckhampton Lane, Shurdington GL51 for £785,000. Marketed by Michael Tuck Land and New Homes, Gloucester
£325k difference is a lot I know, but there have been a few houses that have gone in between and it's when I saw this one that is STC I said to the wife I can't do it, the plot size is nowhere near big enough for the amount of money despite how lovely and new it might be inside:
Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Badgeworth Lane, Badgeworth, GL51 for £800,000. Marketed by Thomas and Thomas Property, Gloucester
For now just sit on our money and keep an eye on the market.
The kitchen is defo lower end but they really don't add or remove much value.
You could certainly say the same thing about the bathroom in the second one. It looks a bit low rent compared to the kitchen.
Yeah you try telling my wife that.
If she looked at that first house it would need a full kitchen refit at the least, probably an extension or rejig of the
downstairs layout to make the kitchen bigger.
So it might not affect the asking price much but would certainly affect the overall cost.
At least to me
I think the price is fair for the land and views. Kitchens can be changed, as can the layout, we can see past it and if a place did have a stunning kitchen you can guarantee my wife won't like it.
But then you never know if the fields will be sold and they throw up 200 houses.
I think the price is fair for the land and views. Kitchens can be changed, as can the layout, we can see past it and if a place did have a stunning kitchen you can guarantee my wife won't like it.
But then you never know if the fields will be sold and they throw up 200 houses.
It’s only a matter of time, and it will be 500
Not wishing to take the thread on a tangent, but a mate of mine really exasperated me about this. He was happy to buy a house on the edge of a new estate. But when there was talk of building in the next field, then later of putting a new road through it he went full NIMBY with protests etc. Could never accept that his own house had ruined someone else's view or that the new road was needed to relieve existing problems.
Wow that 1st and 3rd house are leaps and bounds ahead of the 2nd. Would be crazy imo to buy the second house (I didnt look at areas so could be location bias?)We have been looking at this:
Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Shurdington, Cheltenham, GL51 for £1,100,000. Marketed by Hamptons, Cheltenham
Just the wrong time. The boy is in nursery full time and that's nearly £1400 a month. Once he's in school something like this should be possible, depending on what the wife does work wise. We could technically pass the affordability tests at the moment, but we'd have no money to do anything else. No holidays, no meals out, eating beans on toast. And living on the edge if I were made redundant. Not something I want to put my family through.
Versus the plot we were looking at:
Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Plot 19, Leckhampton Lane, Shurdington GL51 for £785,000. Marketed by Michael Tuck Land and New Homes, Gloucester
£325k difference is a lot I know, but there have been a few houses that have gone in between and it's when I saw this one that is STC I said to the wife I can't do it, the plot size is nowhere near big enough for the amount of money despite how lovely and new it might be inside:
Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Badgeworth Lane, Badgeworth, GL51 for £800,000. Marketed by Thomas and Thomas Property, Gloucester
For now just sit on our money and keep an eye on the market.
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Viewing went well this morning, we really like the house. It's on for £725,000 (been reduced from 750), we've put in an offer of £695,000. We fully expect this to get knocked back but I don't want to go much more than £700,000. Fingers crossed we can get it all agreed before the year closes out.
They have already moved out into a rented place, which is the house they will buy eventually. We can complete in 8 weeks so it's hopefully enticing for them.
They have already moved out into a rented place, which is the house they will buy eventually. We can complete in 8 weeks so it's hopefully enticing for them.
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We're having a general look at houses at the moment with the view to move in the next 2 years and some people are just mad with their pricing. Oh and don't get me started on "this is a 4/5 bedroom house", no it ******* isn't. Thats a room downstairs that you have decided is a bedroom. You haven't got a 4/5 bedroom house, you have a 3/4 bedroom house that you decided to use a downstairs room as a bedroom. The fact your house is 130sqm suggests that it ain't 5 bedroom. Oh and just because you have spent vast sums of money on high end finishing to your house to make it uber personal (and horrible) doesn't mean anyone else will want to pay extra for it. Your £750k house isn't worth £900k because you wasted £150k making it look horrible.
Just reminds me how much I hate house searching. Most are overpriced. Photos are crap. They lie about sizing or just don't actually add areas/square meterage and miss out photos of so much. Getting more and more tempted to do work on the house we have to give us more space. Apparently our house which is valued at about £530k would be worth £750k+ if we put a loft conversion on it according to all the people selling that version of our house. ******** would it.
Just reminds me how much I hate house searching. Most are overpriced. Photos are crap. They lie about sizing or just don't actually add areas/square meterage and miss out photos of so much. Getting more and more tempted to do work on the house we have to give us more space. Apparently our house which is valued at about £530k would be worth £750k+ if we put a loft conversion on it according to all the people selling that version of our house. ******** would it.
If we wanted to move further out, yes. But we want to stay around here for the location and schools.
@ChrisD. you could move to MK, look what you can get for £1m...
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5 bedroom detached house for sale in Seagrave Court, Walton, MK7 for £1,000,000. Marketed by Taylor Walsh, Milton Keynes
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