Buying other side of semi detached house

GDB2222

I once had a house with two staircases. Great fun!

If you buy the house next door, normally the trick is definitely not to knock it all into one property. You'll want to be able to separate them again for selling.

sarah_elton

My friends parents went the other way - bought a house which had once been two semis and are converting it back to two houses, and will then sell one to some family members they want to live next to.

The house as they bought it was quite odd. When the people converted it from two semis to one house, all they really did was knock the kitchens together (they were at the back of each house, across the back) to create one looooooooong kitchen. So you'd walk in, have a lounge, dining room and kitchen at the back, walk through the kitchen and then into another lounge etc. Also had two separate sets of stairs, nothing joining the houses on the top floor. Most strange but I guess it works for some people. Hey, you could give teenagers practically their own house and not hear from them.