The nervous wait to exchange....

[tamzzy]

@ChrisD. Have you tried to gazump?

 

[ChrisD.]

I dunno about you but I’m at the age now (40 next year) where this is the last move until retirement. So it needs to be right.

Similar here, I'm 42. Our boy is 3 next year, I don't mind moving once he's started school if it means getting into the catchment area of a decent secondary school. But after we move, I absolutely do not want to move again.

 

[Hagar]

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.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

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.

 

[964rs]

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

www.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:

Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Plot 19, Leckhampton Lane, Shurdington GL51 4GW, GL51 for £785,000. Marketed by Michael Tuck Land and New Homes, Gloucester

www.rightmove.co.uk

£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

www.rightmove.co.uk

For now just sit on our money and keep an eye on the market.

The first one is definitely nice but i would have expected a kitchen more like the third one for the price

 

[b0rn2sk8]

The first one is definitely nice but i would have expected a kitchen more like the third one for the price

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.

 

[964rs]

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

 

[ChrisD.]

The first one is definitely nice but i would have expected a kitchen more like the third one for the price

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.

 

[LiE]

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

 

[Mr Badger]

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.

 

[Buffman]

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

www.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:

Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom detached house for sale in Plot 19, Leckhampton Lane, Shurdington GL51 4GW, GL51 for £785,000. Marketed by Michael Tuck Land and New Homes, Gloucester

www.rightmove.co.uk

£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

www.rightmove.co.uk

For now just sit on our money and keep an eye on the market.

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?)

 

[ChrisD.]

You could walk between them all in about half an hour. Same village.