First time buyer advice please

petitefeet

Hello,

This is my first post so please be nice to me! My fiance and I are going to view our first house to purchase tomorrow. We have a mortgage agreed in principle and as we still live at home can move pretty quickly.

Is there anything we should particularly look out for during the viewing or any questions we should ask? Grateful for any tips!

sonastin

Make sure you look beyond the decor and the furniture. You'll be buying the walls and the space, not what's hung on them and stored in it!

Feel free to ask any questions that come to mind. This is the biggest purchase you'll ever make - don't let politeness hold you back from finding out what you want to know.

Don't stress too much about finding out everything on the first visit. After you've left you'll come up with all sorts of things that you didn't notice or forgot to look for/ask about. Write them all down as they come to mind. If you get a good feel for the place and think you really like it, go back for a second viewing later and ask all the questions and look for all the things on your list then. Make an offer after the second viewing.

And make sure you go and look at lots of houses. You'll get a better feel for what you want and what you don't like if you look at all sorts of possibilities. View a few that you think probably aren't for you, just in case they throw in a curve ball and open your mind to things you didn't realise you wanted.

Yorkie1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/property/buying_viewingchecklist.shtml gives some less common questions to consider.

In addition to the usual things about how many rooms and location, I remember thinking about random things such as how many electricity points there were, where the sun fell in the garden(s), looking at the guttering and roof carefully etc