please help - i love this house inside but...

trumpton

Forget about the inside - you can change the inside of any house. The house and garden look very nice - it doesn't look ex-LAH and I think you have to judge the area by what the other houses are like. Are they tidy with nicely kept gardens? Visit at different times of the day to see if there are kids hanging about.

I was brought up on a council estate where all the families kept their properties really tidy. Unfortunately as another poster said, as the tenants got older and passed on, they were replaced by some real scrotes. I would check what other houses there have sold for on the estate and make sure you don't overpay.

talulahbeige_2

Its Boston Spa, i dont think you'll have a problem.
Go for it

kingshir

As everyone else says, it looks lovely. I would visit the street/area at different times and days (evenings, weekends etc) just to check what it is like then. However, I have to say I would do that no matter where the property was situated. Good luck:D

Catblue

The price looks sticky to me, unfortunately.

No house on that road has ever sold for £200K or over. And the vendors want £265K for the one that you are interested in.

Most expensive house ever sold in that road was £198,950 in July 2004.

Most expensive semi was £192K in March 2004.

The vendors of this house have obviously spent a lot of money on it. But from a personal point of view, I'd be thinking that it is risky to spend 30% or thereabouts over the current ceiling price of the road.

If you had to sell, would you ever get back what you had spent on it?

That's just my opinion, though.

vegasbaby100

call the local authority or whoever runs the social housing for the area and ask them what properties they still own they will be more than happy to tell you. if there are any issues place a FOI request with them and they will have to provide the infomration for you but i am sure it wont come to that!

chickmug

Sorry to go against most comments so far but being an ex council house WILL put a significant number of people off if you come to sell.

Alizarin's comments are spot on.

You can't have it all ways getting a great home inside and very sellable when you need to sell at a good price. More pople, than not, would compromise and have somewhere smaller in a better area. Sorry but that is my experience of such matters.

PasturesNew

£280k is the most ever paid in that road, number 12 in August 2005.
£198,950 was next, number 18 in July 2004.

Number 42 sold for £192k in 2004 and at a loss of 11.5% in 2007 when it sold for £170k.

It does seem over-priced. Nice/big house though.

I'd not paint the exterior. You'd have to do three sides and then redo them every 3-5 years. Not only would that probably cost you £1000/time, but you actually have to find somebody who is willing to do it ... and then they need to be reliable/competent.

Catblue

PasturesNew wrote: »

£280k is the most ever paid in that road, number 12 in August 2005.

That's interesting. The £280K in August 2005 is not showing on Rightmove Sold prices, but shows on nethouseprices.co.uk.

Thought all the sites used the same Land Registry sold data.

gman20_2

Great looking house. Maybe paint it. Other than that looks really well done inside.

PasturesNew

Catblue wrote: »

That's interesting. The £280K in August 2005 is not showing on Rightmove Sold prices, but shows on nethouseprices.co.uk.

Thought all the sites used the same Land Registry sold data.

What they probably do is buy a service that provides them with raw data ... from there the raw data is imported into their own database and filtered in some way. Who knows how their algorithms are programmed.

There are some flats near my parents' house that only show on one site and no others. They are all different.