Houses for sale

[JoM]

This is the same as the flat we bought in 1991 as a new build, this one is just around the corner from where we lived Loved the flat, hated the area - it was a nice area but no one really spoke.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45300179.html

[Kaz]

Very similar to the place my sis and BIL had in Yeading (nr. Heathrow) around the time they got married in '85 They were only there a year or so then sold up and got a 3 bed 1930s semi in Luton for a similar price!

[Kaz]

This one has just gone STC, just around the corner from us. Different design, the houses down there are about 10 years older I think

[JoM]

That's nice, I prefer your house though (and their garden isn't as nice either).

We were in that flat for just under 3 years. We thought we'd be there for longer. The flat below had been for sale since a month or two after we - and they - moved in (an unplanned pregnancy meant they needed to buy somewhere with more room) so we thought that if we put it up for sale it'd give us time to save a larger deposit for a house while waiting years for a buyer to come along. Two days after it went up for sale a couple knocked on the door asking if they could come in and have a look. Half an hour later the estate agent rang with an offer which, after a bit of consideration and discussion, we accepted. We both ended up moving back in with our parents for 6 months while we then saved like mad and house hunted. We paid £35000 for the flat. John's sister had bought a house a mile or so away for £9000 just 3 years earlier.

[Kaz]

Wow, your flat was headhunted!!! Those were the days eh?

Those prices too, do you know the house my first ex and I bought in the winter of '78/'79 cost us £19,950 It was a five bed cottage - two old cottages in the middle of a terrace knocked into one, in a sweet little hamlet a few miles north of York You'd put that amount on a few credit cards these days, not bother with a mortgage

The house I linked to, I think I prefer our layout too, more liveable and bigger bedrooms, and we are very lucky with our garden - being on a corner ours is wider and bigger than most on here

[JoM]

I wonder how much your cottage would go for now?

We're on a corner but rather than having a large back garden, our land is more on the side of the house. I suppose if we felt we wanted a bigger private garden we could get the wall knocked down and rebuilt further out but it's big enough for what we need. I think having such a large garden at our old house put us off

I'm puzzling over what my sister and her boyfriend are up to. They've decided they want to move over to Burton On Trent and have put an offer in on a really lovely house but haven't put their house on the market yet. I don't know, I always thought the conventional way of selling/buying was put your house on the market, find a buyer and then look seriously - I'd find it too stressful to find somewhere I loved and then risk losing it with having to depend on my house selling. Funnily enough my friend in Orkney has gone about it all in that kind of way. They had an estate agent take photos and measurements ready for listing but she said that she wasn't going to give them the go ahead until they'd found their ideal property. She said a few weeks ago that they'd found the one, a house which they'd fallen in love with and really wanted so they'd finally put their's on the market, had a few viewings and one couple was coming back for a second look and were hoping to make an offer. I've not spoken to her since then but it's still for sale.

[Kaz]

I'm not sure of current value but it had land too, about 1/3 of an acre so not much change from £300k I suspect

Oh that is a strange way of doing things Like you I would be scared of losing the new house

We have space at the side between a fence and the edge of our property, a strip about 2m wide by 6 or 7m long, so could do the same as you describe, and did actually briefly consider it before we got the gravel done - but decided not to bother. TBH if we didn't have the dogs I would happily lose half of our garden and have a conservatory - lots of the houses on here have them

As long as I kept the decking to sit out on, and some of my patio for my tubs I would be happy, but we need the grass for the woofies

[JoM]

I'd quite like a conservatory but it'd take up a lot of the garden. A couple of people on our close have had orangeries built this year, both of the houses are the ones in the style of yours. From the bits that I can see they look really nice.

At your house in York, did you find having a large garden a bind when you were younger? Our garden was big at our old house and we found it such a pain when we were younger, it was only in the last few years of living there that we started to take an interest.

BTW - next door never did move so yes, that's the second time they've put it up for sale in 18 months, sold it and not moved.

[Diflower]

The one I thought had moved in at the end (the late Sue's house), with the blue car, hadn't - he was there for a couple of days decorating
Someone's there now with a small removal van - it's being rented. So I'll have to wait and see what colour car they do have

[JoM]

I hope it fits in with the colour scheme