Would you move from a detached to a townhouse

Tancred

avenida wrote: »

Thank you!! Yes we had it on the market for 1 year back in 2009 and had 5 viewings

Now looking at this one, its not that modern inside but i can c the potential, what do you guys think?

http://www.propertypal.com/8-craiglands-manor-newtownabbey/194567

Northern Ireland is insanely cheap. Where I live now this house would cost £300k - I could buy two of these houses in Northern Ireland!! :mad:

Strapped

lazer wrote: »

A definate No - and an even mopre definate no for that house.

If was a period house or something special I would maybe consider it - but not for a new build.

Are you livng in Newtonabbey now or just moving to the area?

This. We did move from a detached to a semi, but it's a period one with solid stone walls and we never hear the neighbour.

Davesnave

avenida wrote: »

Now looking at this one, its not that modern inside but i can c the potential, what do you guys think?

http://www.propertypal.com/8-craiglands-manor-newtownabbey/194567

I think that's a better bet. Might be smaller and bound to be built behind eventually, but it's perfectly liveable, not on the school kids' way home and you can replace things as and when that's affordable.

Mrs_pbradley936

I like the 2nd one better and as for town houses - you are always hovering the stairs!

Hard to sell because no good for old people or babies/toddlers with all those stairs. So your market is limited to youngish people with no kids or the kids being of an age where nobody is worried about them falling down the stairs.

Yes you can have stair gates but you need a lot and you get lazy with them so leave them unlocked. Can't you tell I know all about it!!

saverbuyer

Remember to go in well below rateable value whatever house you decide to make an offer on. Especially in Newtownabbey.

lazer

Tancred wrote: »

Northern Ireland is insanely cheap. Where I live now this house would cost £300k - I could buy two of these houses in Northern Ireland!! :mad:

Newtonabbey is one of the cheaper areas in NI for reference

The same house in a safe respectable area in Belfast would me much more expensive.

saverbuyer

lazer wrote: »

Newtonabbey is one of the cheaper areas in NI for reference

The same house in a safe respectable area in Belfast would me much more expensive.

Average salary in NI is much lower than any other UK region.

witchy1066

googler wrote: »

That's OK, but as you can see, I wasn't the only one to read your post as though it was directed at me.

(Hand-shake) Friends.

definitely , it is only a forum and I would never get personal ,I do see how it read though but was not intended that way


OP is size more important to you than privacy, that is the question you need to ask or is it possible to get both, with your budget I am sure it should be achievable

all the best whichever way you go

Principia_2

googler wrote: »

Why don't you wind your personal abuse in, and consider what I said - Grand Piano. An acoustic instrument, not an electronic one.

I have this image of some oblivious musician banging away on his piano or woodwind with headphones on At least he wouldn't be able to hear his neighbours banging on the wall

Detached for me if there is a choice, then semi then end of terrace and only mid terrace if desperate. I'd rather have a 3 bed detached than a 4 bed mid terrace. Obviously if you need that 4th bedroom then that give a different slant on the whole thing.

phoebe1989seb

Strapped wrote: »

This. We did move from a detached to a semi, but it's a period one with solid stone walls and we never hear the neighbour.

We did the same, although we had previously lived in three detached houses Having moved from a four bed detached Victorian, we downsized from a 6 bed detached (also Victorian) in a city to a much smaller detached Tudor house in a semi rural location.

The first two detached properties had relatively good sized gardens for city houses - 30-40' wide x 65-80' deep - but they were still quite close to the neighbours either side. Obviously we had little issue with noise from the neighbours within the house, but in the second house we had a nursery school next door which did cause its own problems during the day time.

We then moved to a third detached (Tudor) which originally had a large plot surrounding the house on all sides, but more recently the garden-grabbers had struck and by the time we purchased the garden comprised a wrap-around affair about 25' deep max, surrounded by bungalows dating from the '50s to the present day.

At that property we had most problems with noisy neighbours, but again these were all outside - parties, neighbour practising his pub-singer act in his garage etc, lol!

From there, like Strapped, we bought an attached 200+ year old stone village house with one attached neighbour. We have three storeys, but the neighbouring house has only two. The walls here are sooooo thick, nothing can be heard from next door. We also have around 1/4 acre of un-overlooked garden, so we feel the benefits of this, plus the overall better location than the last place, far outweigh the fact we've gone from *detached to attached*

As a self-confessed period home addict, I don't personally like any of the houses linked in this thread and it would have to be a very special house/location to convince me to buy modern, but in the OP's position I would still be trying to find something less attached - a semi if not an actual detached - rather than the house in the first post, because IMHO, the noise through the thin walls in a newer house would potentially be too much for me.....sorry! Even my parents' 1920s semi had walls you could hear the neighbours conversations/TV through