Opinion on Location

pimento

It's not this one, is it?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30384053.html

If it is, I can see why you love it.

Mazzawa

Pimento - not quite but same area of the town! Have been eyeing that up too but the pennies just arent there!

Hazyjo - perhaps you're right but the thought of renting is just not appealing, had a horrendously stressful year so would love to just move in and put the kettle on and start picking paint! We know that our dream house in a dream location just does not exist at the moment, prices up here for 'that' house are 300k+ OVER our budget!

Skint_Catt

Mazzawa wrote: »

1. Perfect house, garden and garage of our dreams but in a not so great area.
2. Modern house not to our tastes with a good garden but close to neighbours. Great, safe and popular location that backs onto fields.

We had a similar dilemma in regard to your No1 and decided that we just couldn't go with it. We drove round the area before viewing & hoped that we just didn't like the house - sadly we did! As 'ok' as it looked on a summer's saturday, in the middle of winter & dark nights (and a footpath along the back of the garden) we weren't prepared to feel 'locked in'.

Something else came up shortly which was even better in a fab location!

(No2 would be my personal 'choice' (without knowing more!), however how would you feel if three storey townhouses were built on the 'fields' looking into your garden - a huge possibility these days!)

If you can wait, then do (just read that you can't wait, sorry )

C xx

Mazzawa

Skint_Catt - thanks for your thoughts, and that is exactly my concern with option no.2. The field behind a house just down the road where our friend lives has a pylon in it hence why planning apps have been rejected. Just looked more closely at the house we are viewing (a good 20-30 doors along) and the field it is behind doesn't have one...the pylon jumps into the field one away a few houses before. This, I suppose means that it is prime building ground having services so near by in a good area. hmm...

I should also say that the house I love is a rambling old victorian number, complete with range cooker and wine cellar. The other one is a 70's build that isn't so easy on the eye but then has that view... I'm just going to go and cry in a corner somewhere until someone buys me a house and sticks me in it. Easiest way.

Maybe I should call Phil and Kirstie...

sunshinetours

Being picky but your dream home would have the location as well. Its one thing you cannot change and whilst a cliche these days i have to agree with the general principle saying buy the worst house in best street you can afford.
Saying all that anti social behaviour happens everywhere these days. Its just more likely or more apprent maybe in slightly run down less prosperous areas

Ninjawombat

Hi Mazzawa,

I don't know if you're aware of it but the new Borders Railway line (due to be completed in 2014) will make a stop in Gorebridge on route to Edinburgh. As you know, there's no train route from the borders to the city at the moment, so the only way for people to travel there is by car or bus. I have been trying to convince my parents to buy a property on the borders rail route as I know that when it's completed, property prices are going to shoot up! You might want to check the Gorebridge station map using the link below though, just in case your new house is going to be next to the line.

I'm sure that there will be a lot of development along the railway route, so I can imagine Gorebridge will benefit greatly from it. I think that if you love the house, you should definitely consider it. It could turn out to be a great investment!

http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/rail/projects/borders-railway/the-project

zappahey

Mazzawa wrote: »

Wish we had the English system up here, would be so much less stressful!

I've bought and sold in both Scotland and England and, believe me, the English system is far more stressful.

The fact that your transaction can be derailed at any moment by someone many links away in the chain is only one source of stress, off the top of my head.