Would you move from a detached to a townhouse

moneyistooshorttomention

Coach houses = other peoples cars underneath YOUR home...with the car fumes percolating up through:eek: If you're particularly unlucky = the car-owner spending hours noisily tinkering with the car underneath your home:eek:

...and that's before you start wondering about technicalities like flying freeholds/insurance/etc:eek:

On a different tack, I've certainly seen plenty of detached houses that I count as barely detached (eg one particularly bad one only had about 1-2' feet of space between their sides and I had serious doubts whether anyone could even manage to squeeze in between them if any outside maintenance was needed to either of their walls).

The one I am moving to has about a 10' gap between it and the next door neighbour one side and rather further away from the one the other side. I guess that counts as "really" detached...

I think the thing about these town houses (modern version) or terrace (older version) is that, with a lot of them, it feels like neighbours before and behind can literally peer out of their windows and in through yours (the one I am currently selling certainly has that). Even with sticking up sheer curtains of some type it can still feel like you can only have visual privacy in the main areas of the house. When feeling particularly "driven up the wall" by lack of privacy before now I've resorted occasionally to sitting on the stairs to feel quite certain that I had my privacy.

Waterlily24

Detached for me

Tancred

Detached houses are always ideal but they also offer extremely poor value for money when looking at available space. For a pokey 950-1000 sq ft detached house with a box room as third bedroom you can probably buy a 4 bedroom town house with 1500 sq ft or more.

geoffky

I would want 100k to even think of having Neighbours again...You will regret going back to Neighbours.
People are mad...

Mickygg

I had a detached new build. Might as well have been terraced as I could hear conversations of people walking past as clear as anything. I kept getting woken up by a woman getting the 7 o clock train wearing her heels as she walked!! New build detached.... Ugh.

However I moved to another detached and all fine now. No noise. I lived in terraced and never again. Never ever again. Dont move back to a terraced as you'll be constantly assessing the noise, especially as you are thinking about it already.

avenida

Thank you for all your comments, we have not dismissed a terraced house or semi, now going detached only

avenida

avenida wrote: »

Thank you for all your comments, we have not dismissed a terraced house or semi, now going detached only



I got 2k below rateable value for my house, which i though was really good.

Its a nightmare, there are houses on the market that I like, but the rateable value is about 20k over rateable value. Could I really go and view things around the 180 mark and offer 160?

We don't need 4 bedrooms, but most of the ones that are big downstairs are 4 bedroom houses

We can extend out the side of our house and put on a 6 x 4 m extension, just worried it will go over budget, 40k is our absolute maximum

clark24

Our last house was a large detached one, with many other large detached ones in the surrounding area and it is the noisiest place I have ever lived (and the first detached house I had ever lived in). The neighbors all seemed to think that as the houses were detached they could make as much noise as they liked, inside and out and after a year of living there we were so desperate to leave to get away from their constant all night parties, gardening until gone 11pm and cars revving and general people coming and going 24/7. It was a nightmare! I am so glad we were renting so after 12 months of no sleep even though it was a posh area and the houses were big and fancy we couldn't take another moment of it.

We now live in a semi detached, but in our our postcode there is us, the house attached to us and a big farm up the road. Our neighbours and lovely and not at all noisy, and it is the quietest place I have ever lived. (chosen specifically due to the 12 months of wishing I was deaf at previous property).

So although last place was detached, and houses were not very close together we never had a moment of peace and quiet so don't think that detached means less noise....

clark24

Also the detached house was 200 years old, very thick walls but listed so no double glazing. Others in the area were the same, or new builds with thin walls and double glazing. Either way we suffered living there.

moneyistooshorttomention

Mickygg wrote: »

However I moved to another detached and all fine now. No noise. I lived in terraced and never again. Never ever again. Dont move back to a terraced as you'll be constantly assessing the noise, especially as you are thinking about it already.

Very true re the constantly assessing the noise from neighbours.

The very first thought will be "Is this reasonable or unreasonable noise for them to make?". Most of the time the noise hasn't been unreasonable of itself BUT you still get annoyed by the fact that you shouldn't be able to hear it.

If its UNreasonable noise (as it has been occasionally in my experience, but some get it a lot worse) then it will definitely have "steam coming out of your ears" with fury about both the house and the fact that you have such selfish people as neighbours.