Time to move on...not getting hopes up too much though!

GinG

GinG

GinG

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Thought I would start a bit of a progress thread on our mission to upgrade houses.

4 years ago we moved into a end terrace 3 storey, 3 bed house. Whilst perfect for me and the now wife since having Eleanor 5 months ago the house just isn't working for us.

Current house has a small kitchen and a living/dining room which at the moment we struggle to fit a table and sofa in so currently have no dining table which isn't ideal as we start to ween Eleanor and want to be able to sit around the table!

This Sunday we went to have a look at a new development and the house available is much more of an ideal family home. Detached, Large Kitchen/Diner, separate living room, 4 bedrooms, 1 en-suite, 1 bathroom, good size garden and the house has rear view of the Yorkshire countryside couple of pics below:





Now the killer bit, they developer offers an easy move option where they pay all estate agency fees and aggressively advertise the property but our house must sell in 6 weeks! If after this 6 weeks they still hold it for a further 6 weeks but if a preferential buyer comes in we lose out!

I shall keep updated on any progress, just keeping fingers crossed. If it is meant to be it is meant to be!

If nothing else it has made us realise we need to move regardless so if this does fall through...watch this space!!
 
In otherwords they let you buy thier house, attempt to advertise yours for 6 weeks then purchase your old house at a reduced rate as a preferential buyer and profit?

Sounds like good buisness for them
 
No what they do is sell the house for the price I need! They do not purchase our house or anything, they are unable to do part exchange as the price they would offer would mean we have no equity to move forward.

Not done too bad on the equity side of things, if it sells for the price I want we have around £17k in 4 years, lowest price I need would mean around £14k. And this is on a new build.

If my house does not sell the deal falls through potentially so it is in their interest to do all they can to push the agent to sell our house.

I am quietly confident as my mate recently sold his house, same site, same house type but our plot is far superior and his ended up going for sealed bids in the end due to the interest involved.
 
That looks really nice, plenty of space there.
The easy move option sounds interesting, fingers crossed it works out for you.
Just out of interest roughly what kind of money does a house like that cost, looks expensive!
 
Yeah the house is lovely and in my opinion is a perfect family home.

This particular house is £264,999.
 
Is it David Wilson Homes by any chance, GinG? Looks similar style to ours we are moving to in November in Cambs.
 
This one is a Taylor Wimpey, to be honest I know people slate new builds but I must admit this build seems better quality than the Persimmon we are moving from and we have been happy here.
 
That garage is ridiculous! Even behind a fiat 500 it looks tiny! I wonder why garages are still common if they are useless for their primary purpose.

House looks great otherwise :).
 
Pinkribbonscars said:
That garage is ridiculous! Even behind a fiat 500 it looks tiny! I wonder why garages are still common if they are useless for their primary purpose.

House looks great otherwise :).
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when you do a development like this you need to provide some parking - one in the garage, one on the tiny bit of drive - means you can squeeze a few more plots on rather than give space over to parking… whether they are actually used or not is a different matter… once did a development where we had to resize the garages so that they could could fit a freelander in them as that was who the developer was targeting!!
 
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Pinkribbonscars said:
That garage is ridiculous! Even behind a fiat 500 it looks tiny! I wonder why garages are still common if they are useless for their primary purpose.

House looks great otherwise :).
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Very few people would park in their garage anyway. They still make good storage spaces for lawn mowers and bikes.
 
Yeah garages are useless, however as Trifid says they are great for storing garden equipment etc. As the garden is much bigger than ours currently we could possibly have a shed and in the future have this as a play room / cinema!
 
GinG said:
Yeah garages are useless, however as Trifid says they are great for storing garden equipment etc. As the garden is much bigger than ours currently we could possibly have a shed and in the future have this as a play room / cinema!
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would check your deeds before thinking that - a lot of new build estates have clauses which prevent any further development for a certain time (i.e. no extensions/conservatories/garage conversions etc)

is the house complete yet?
do you know the construction method?
 
Garages on new builds now are bigger than they used to be. I had some planning done, our current garage is 2.5 x 5 metres (house built in 1997), we wanted to move it forward so we could extend into the back of the current garage, because we were moving it we had to adhere to the new building regs which meant the 'new' garage had to be 3m x 6m.

Didn't end up getting the extension done though, as there was a highways objection in that from your garage door to the highway you need 6m of driveway for a standard door or 5.5m for a roller door. We only had 4m.

If we wanted to develop the garage, we would also need planning permission as our deeds state the garage must be used for the enjoyment of the house and not as a habitable room. It's a fairly easy change to be made though so long as you have enough parking or access to parking to recover the space 'lost' by converting the garage.
 
If the house isn't built yet, can you get the plans amended to include a wider garage and the space upstairs extended out also?
 
the_r_sole said:
would check your deeds before thinking that - a lot of new build estates have clauses which prevent any further development for a certain time (i.e. no extensions/conservatories/garage conversions etc)

is the house complete yet?
do you know the construction method?
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You don't usually need planning permission for conservatories if they are under a certain size. Look around any new build estate, even ones that are not completely finished and you'll see people have built them already.
 
LeeUK said:
You don't usually need planning permission for conservatories if they are under a certain size. Look around any new build estate, even ones that are not completely finished and you'll see people have built them already.
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I just said to check the deeds as I have been involved in several where permitted development rights have been removed.
 
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