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Is it OK to buy a 75-years old house

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  • spud211
    spud211 Posts: 56 Forumite
    Not everyone in the UK likes/prefers old houses..

    Personally I don't like them at all - My house is brand new and I may well take another new build in the future..who knows what my opinion is then.

    People on this board in particular love older houses (generally anyway) but I think that the fact most people in the UK buy 2nd hand is more because of availability rather than preferring to buy a 2nd hand one.

    The simple fact is that in the UK we are /very/ short on space, so as most houses in the country were built over 25 years ago (which is what I consider to be old), there are vastly more of those for sale than any new ones.

    In the USA and lots of Europe there is much more space available for building,this is especially true in the USA. As a result there are more newbuild homes available and a bigger market for them.
  • zcacmxi
    zcacmxi Posts: 136 Forumite
    Regardless of the age of the house, it can have defects. I'd therefore always get a Homebuyers survey on any house I was buying, regardless of its age.

    I've read in a number of places, that for older properties a Full Structural Survey is recommended.
  • mlz1413
    mlz1413 Posts: 3,028 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Ensure it isn't a pre-fab house, bricks clad around a steel structure as these do have problems with the steel rusting.
    Other than that I can't see why the OP is so worried, but agreed with the thought they are not from UK.
  • Norma_Desmond
    Norma_Desmond Posts: 4,417 Forumite
    I notice the op hasn't returned; 'foreign' or no this has to be a wind-up? :D

    Getting scared of my 200 year old house now.....:eek: :D
    "I'm ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille...."
  • mlz1413
    mlz1413 Posts: 3,028 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    looking at OP history he has only posted twice - and they are 2 years apart!!
  • GillsMan7
    GillsMan7 Posts: 246 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    My house was originally built in the 1600s. I win. :D
  • olly300
    olly300 Posts: 14,738 Forumite
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    spud211 wrote: »
    Not everyone in the UK likes/prefers old houses..

    Personally I don't like them at all - My house is brand new and I may well take another new build in the future..who knows what my opinion is then.

    People on this board in particular love older houses (generally anyway) but I think that the fact most people in the UK buy 2nd hand is more because of availability rather than preferring to buy a 2nd hand one.
    I hate new properties.

    I've only ever been in one new built property that I thought was reasonably alright. Though it was in a rough area of London.

    Normally the gardens are too small for the size of the property, the rooms are small and/or the internal walls are really thin.
    I'm not cynical I'm realistic :p

    (If a link I give opens pop ups I won't know I don't use windows)
  • dipcho2002
    dipcho2002 Posts: 7 Forumite
    Thank you very much for your advice. I am going to buy that house.
  • warehouse
    warehouse Posts: 3,362 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    All houses need new cambelts at 88 years.
    Pants
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    This sounds like a foreigner posting to me. It's not a posting from somebody in England.

    The language is all wrong. Guessing American.

    Not American, I reckon. "What will happen with my house when it will be 100 years old "

    That sounds like a well-educated writer but not one for whom English is a native language.

    Better grammar than a lot of native speakers on this forum, but the error with "to be" in the future tense is a classic non-native speaker error.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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