Is it really worth buying detached over semi detached?

Legacy_user

live with parents atm in a detached but will probably only be able to afford a semi detached as first home.

Are the newer semi detached any good, can you hear things through the walls?

Is detached really worth around £30k extra?

yoyoegg

Yes !

New builds are made of cheese singles & chipboard. You'll be able to hear neighbours break wind in a semi

Even if you buy with a sweet old lady next door, you always dread the removal van turning up and neighbours from hell moving in. At which point your quality of live will be in the toilet but you can't complain as a dispute must be disclosed to buyers.

Too_Hairy_Husky

As someone who moved out to avoid listening to her new nieghbours having sex... I would pay an extra £30k any day!!!!

ognum

I think it really depends on the house and the neighbours!

I live in an Edwardian semi and seldom hear my neighbours, have lived in a Victorian terrace and didn't hear them either. But, I think in both occasions I had quite neighbours and we are also pretty quiet

System

Too_Hairy_Husky wrote: »

As someone who moved out to avoid listening to her new nieghbours having sex... I would pay an extra £30k any day!!!!

this to me sounds like a benefit of semi detached :)

Amara

I live in a semi builded in the fifties and never hear neighbours . They never complaint about noise to us. 30k seems to a low price to have a benefit of detached house, though.

Strapped

I live in a semi but it has 3ft thick solid stone walls, so no worries.

But I wouldn't touch a new build semi or terraced with someone else's bargepole. When I bought my first house, the lady next door worked funny shifts which meant she went to bed really early, before 8pm. If I so much as turned the radio on she went mad, banging on the walls and yelling. I even used to watch TV with headphones in. It was a nightmare.

Redyam

It depends on your neighbours, obviously, which you won't know until your move in. Millions of people live in houses with a shared wall, and they cope somehow.

There are ways of reducing noise. Buy a house with a solid shared wall. You can buy sound board which reduces some of the sound coming in. And there is also the option of talking to your neighbours.

If you think it's worth it, go for it.

jennifernil

I think it must depend on the quality of the build.

Our daughter recently moved into a new terraced townhouse, on one side she has a neighbour with 2 teenagers, on the other the builders are still working on it.

During the day we have heard a bit of banging and hammering from the workmen, but no voices or music.

From the neighbour on the other side we have heard absolutely no noise, I was quite impressed.

duggan1

jennifernil wrote: »

I think it must depend on the quality of the build.

Our daughter recently moved into a new terraced townhouse, on one side she has a neighbour with 2 teenagers, on the other the builders are still working on it.

During the day we have heard a bit of banging and hammering from the workmen, but no voices or music.

From the neighbour on the other side we have heard absolutely no noise, I was quite impressed.

They probably are being quiet with their ear up against the wall listening for you making noise

marathonic

I live in a 4-bed detached house on my own (purchased recently and purchased large to avoid moving costs when I settle down and meet a partner).

One of the rooms downstairs is converted to a gym - which, no doubt, will be replaced with scented candles and cushions when a woman gets her claws into me

My point is, I like to work out with loud music and, with detached, I have that option.

Now, it may never be a factor for your consideration but my point is, if you get a certain kind of neighbour, you could have complaints everytime your kids make noise in the future.

And even if you don't have a complaining neighbour, you'll be paranoid everytime kids get too loud.