How many houses did you view before finding the right home?

steve_bilton

Most recent move - we looked at 15 in one Saturday, OH decided that the first was the one, I went for the 2nd, saw the other 13 and went for the 1st - a tiring but satisfying day.

We'd got our buyer so needed one quick - and achieved it.

HouseHunter_2

tomstickland wrote:

I looked at about 10 and then bought the first I'd looked at.

this is exactly what we did. I'm moving from a victorian terrace to a house built in 1985. The thing about the house I'm buying, I LOVE downstairs but I was massively disappointed with upstairs. It needs a bit of work, which is fine, but the room sizes are smaller than I was hoping. as we viewed several more we realised that we liked this one: location, kitchen, garden (EVERYTHING bar the size of the main bedroom) so much that we were prepared to make the compromise. As it had been on the market so long by the time we offered we were able to get it for a lower price than if we had jumped straight in three months earlier. We haven't exchanged yet though so please keep everything crossed for us

black-saturn

HouseHunter wrote:

I'm moving from a victorian terrace to a house built in 1985.

A Victorian Terrace built in 1985?

This is also a victorian terrace built in 1896. I looked round 4 houses before settling on this one but I didn't have a lot to choose from as I wanted cheap houses.

My mum and dad on the other hand looked round about 30 when they were moving. I thought they were never going to find anything.

HouseHunter_2

no, my current house is a Victorian terrace, so nice big bedrooms and high ceilings. My new house was built in 1985, so a nice big kitchen, larger garden BUT smaller main bedroom.

Stubbsy05

Viewed 5 and went for the 4th

Many of them were recently converted flats so were very small. Just couldn't see myself living there.

The 4th one I'm buying was built around 1900 and has huge rooms, higher ceilings I hadn't considered it until the Vendors had dropped it 10K which came right into my price range!!

Oh and I got that feeling when I walked in that it was the one for me!

pigeonpie

Can anyone beat my/our record [for stupidity]? The very first flat we saw in March 2004 was just great but we fussed about it and ummd and awwd and of course someone else got it - by £5gs. It's now more than 2 yrs on, we're renting with the lease about to run out & being evicted (another move to who knows where) and all we have seen is overpriced (London!) or just not in our budget or awful. You have to have that 'this is it' moment when you're spending so many £££s. All we have is that 'this isn't it' moment and we're not that fussy (honestly). We are thinking of awarding a prize to the 1000th horrible flat we see
Previous house - looked at 25 or so identical terraced victorians before something just clicked. It wasn't even in good condition and had revolting dog-chewed yellow stripey wallpaper, but had a happy atmosphere as soon as you walked in the door. So of course we sold it when we moved abroad for a bit and.....it's worth 4 times what we sold it for now.
Owwwwwwwwwww.
The trouble with flats is also the flat may be nice but the neighbours rap fiends !

lilybugs

My boyfriend said that he expected to look at about 30 and I knew we were going to have problems as there was only one house on the market that we liked the look of. (We are very picky). We almost bought it but it fell through. Luckily and unbelievably, another house that managed to meet our criteria came on the market that week and we've just exchanged. I've kept a really close eye on every out for every house that came on the market and I'd say that in a year about three or four have been ones that I would consider looking at.

huki

Eighteen houses viewed and rejected , bought the nineteenth as me and the wife both said as we left the property "I want it!!" We move in on Friday Sept. 1st.

Jimbo333_2

3, but the last 2 were just to prove to ourselves that the first place we saw was the place for us (we're in it now!).

We did however view dozens on rightmove.co.uk (virtually).

clairehi

We bought the first house we saw, viewed another 5 though afterwards just to make sure we werent missing out on something better. in fact, 4 months after moving in I still check on rightmove to make sure my dream house isnt out there - so far, no sign!