max budget of 250K - what price house would you view up to?

PasturesNew

OK, let's go posh. If you're prepared to go out to Linton, check this place out.

LOVELY village, quiet, respectable. Wealthy people live here.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION^19146&minBedrooms=4&maxPrice=280000

Also, check out the river. It's a fabulous place to hang out in the summer, with or as kids. Go down Overcoat Road from the High Street and just follow it all the way, when it turns into Chain Road keep following it. You end up on a big flat riverbank opposite an old pub that's actually 20 miles away by road. Used to spend hours/days down there.

PasturesNew

Nenen wrote: »

Thanks very much PN. However, Willingham is too far north for us. I work south west Cambridge city (a pain to get in and out of in traffic from any direction but much worse from north) and my dh has to travel to Colchester and Chelmsford fairly often so we really need to be south or west... east at a push as we like Fulbourn ... preferably not more than 8 miles from centre... but have gone out as far as Linton. S*d's law being what it is, south of city is more expensive! Really don't want to be on a big estate if we can help it... but then perhaps I am being too fussy for the money we have available. I can't help feeling that a quarter of a million should get something really nice probably unrealistic though.

Ah, South West....

OK ... off to RM again

Not all the south's pricey. Sawston's a bit of a bargain sometimes.

PasturesNew

At first I thought Meldreth, another posh place. Not much there, but there is a station on the main line into London for starters.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23512421.html

But that's too far west really. So I ran a line between Chelmsford and Colchester ... and looking up between the two, Saffron Walden. That's always been lovely.

So I looked - it used to be really pricey. No idea what the proximity to others is because they don't show you, but this has more space than you need to batter all your kids/husband ... and enough room for them to rush off to cry in

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-25805072.html

Looks like somebody owned the end plot and built on the end (different colour bricks), but it is in a close ... could be !!!!!, dunno.

barnaby-bear

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why would anybody look in Arbury if they had £250k? Just 2-3 miles further out there are much better/nicer/safer places. Arbury's always had a bad reputation - and you don't have to go far to find somewhere "better".

Because the places 2/3 miles further out are even more expensive.... once stuff broke the stamp duty £250k limit - it sort of hovered for a few years but 3 beds for under £250k is a very hard search without serious compromise....

barnaby-bear

PasturesNew wrote: »

This isn't looked into directly (sold now)
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-21607243.html

Weird extension....

PasturesNew

barnaby-bear wrote: »

Because the places 2/3 miles further out are even more expensive.... once stuff broke the stamp duty £250k limit - it sort of hovered for a few years but 3 beds for under £250k is a very hard search without serious compromise....

The compromise would be Arbury. Going 2-3 miles out isn't always £250k.

PasturesNew

barnaby-bear wrote: »

Weird extension....

I've seen a lot of those. You get to have your extra bedroom and still access the garage and extra parking and the back garden.

imho ... it doesn't look good ... but it serves a functional purpose of space.

barnaby-bear

Nenen wrote: »

We can't find anything we like within 2-3 miles of the city for 250K with 3-4 bedrooms (or an extra reception as my dh often works from home) PN. I really wish we could. I have a thing about not being overlooked from the back, (by which I mean a house backing onto ours whereby their back windows look directly into ours with not a lot of garden and/or trees inbetween) which cuts the options considerably. Very little is coming onto the market... we have even started looking as far afield as Linton and still no joy.

It's not you - it's a lot of tat on the market - !!!!!!!!!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26117441.html?locationIdentifier=REGION^274&maxPrice=250000&maxDaysSinceAdded=7&pageNumber=1&backToListURL=/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E274&maxPrice=250000&maxDaysSinceAdded=7

barnaby-bear

PasturesNew wrote: »

The compromise would be Arbury. Going 2-3 miles out isn't always £250k.

People always say this but there's always a significant issue/compromise and when you ask people to find an abundance of nice stuff that is supposedly out there - they kind of can't - I always thought the western ugly but decent sized private 1970s village estates might suit Nenen (Harwick/Comberton)...

PasturesNew

barnaby-bear wrote: »

It's not you - it's a lot of tat on the market - !!!!!!!!!
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-26117441.html?locationIdentifier=REGION^274&maxPrice=250000&maxDaysSinceAdded=7&pageNumber=1&backToListURL=/property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E274&maxPrice=250000&maxDaysSinceAdded=7

Had a spare bit on the left hand side of the council house they'd bought .... built a new house. At least, that's what I make of it.

Bit thin... but not as thin as the one on Newmarket Road I viewed in about 1988/89 that was about max under 7' wide and for sale at £70k. (2 up, 2 down, no parking)