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Terraced or Semi Detached?

NH2004 · 2013-12-02 11:15:17

I need to seriously buy a house in the New Year and am torn between buying a cheaper terraced house or a semi detached. I've viewed a couple and once inside the terraced houses seem quite nice and liveable, and you don't really seem to gain much space by buying a semi. Opting for a terraced house would make repayments very…

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pops5588 Posts: 638 Forumite

4 December 2013 at 10:10AM

We viewed a mixture of semi and terraced properties, and we got much more space for our money with our terraced house. There is also no right of way issue with our property and it has plenty of off-road parking which was important to us.

We didn't have to put our heating on for ages because next door started early and we benefitted :P and can only hear the neighbours when they let us know they were putting in new skirting board and there was a bit of temporary banging. That's it.

I was wary of terraces, not even wanting to view them at first but I am completely won over.

First home purchased 09/08/2013
New job start date 24/03/2014
Life is slowly slotting into place :beer:
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