Downsizing

redpepper64

Congrats! It looks beautiful.

gallygirl

Looks great SDW - big rooms and bright :j

pollypenny

I'm feeling d!jà vu here, SDW. I thought you'd posted this about a fortnight ago?

The place looks great, anyway. Good luck.

seven-day-weekend

pollypenny wrote: »

I'm feeling d!jà vu here, SDW. I thought you'd posted this about a fortnight ago?

The place looks great, anyway. Good luck.

I think I did, on a different thread.

racon

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Updating to say - out and about on our travels we saw this:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49496849.html/svr/2717;jsessionid=6D131EBCE2CF7630F2674A43712305CD?premiumA=true

We have offered, and have had accepted, £138k:):T:j:beer::T

It's about a mile from where we live now. It has shops either end of the road, walking distance to a pub, a church around the corner (although we shall continue attending our present one, but it's there if we want it), we can keep the same Doctor , the bus comes right down the road every 15 minutes and although it is on an estate, it's right on the edge so doesn't feel as though it is. Ideal.

It needs a bit of work doing, but that just means it will feel like ours. We are going to make the present kitchen area a utility area and have the main kitchen in the rest of the room. There will still be room for a table. The garage needs re-roofing and the bungalow may need a rewire, also the double glazing needs replacing at some point and the whole place needs decorating, but really it's the kitchen and garage that need doing urgently.

The garden is bigger than our present one and we are hoping we can relocate our wildlife pond there - we can physically move the pond as it is plastic, and hopefully if we take some sludge and plants and original water and a few frogs they will recolonise. As it is hopefully in the spring when we get the keys, we will be able to take some frogspawn . If we can't take the pond (taking advice on whether to move frogs) the we'll start off another one with our own frogspawn.

Our mortgage broker is confident he can get us a mortgage on our present house, so that we can do the work in the bungalow before selling, which will be good. He will let us know hopefully in the next few days. If he can't then we'll put the house on the market next week (the vendors do know our position, I don't think they are in a hurry as it is an inherited property).

Excited!

Hey, And I thought that the South West was a reasonably cheap area. For what you are paying for that, you could just about get a small flat with the kitchen in the living room and no garden down here!
I would be happy to be paying at least £250,000 min. for that property.
3 bed detached are fetching £355,000 with 4 bed at over £420,000
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47204107.html

seven-day-weekend

We are having a meeting with the vendor's estate agent on Wednesday, by which time our mortgage broker will let us know definitely if he can raise a mortgage on our existing house, or whether we have to put it up for sale straightaway.

(We've already put it on a free site: http://www.propertysell.co.uk/property/16585/super-3-bedroom-victorian-terraced-house.html

zygurat789

racon wrote: »

Hey, And I thought that the South West was a reasonably cheap area. For what you are paying for that, you could just about get a small flat with the kitchen in the living room and no garden down here!
I would be happy to be paying at least £250,000 min. for that property.
3 bed detached are fetching £355,000 with 4 bed at over £420,000
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47204107.html

It just goes to show how wrong you can be.

zygurat789

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

We are having a meeting with the vendor's estate agent on Wednesday, by which time our mortgage broker will let us know definitely if he can raise a mortgage on our existing house, or whether we have to put it up for sale straightaway.

(We've already put it on a free site: http://www.propertysell.co.uk/property/16585/super-3-bedroom-victorian-terraced-house.html

It has been a long time since I was round there but my recollection is that the street in which your house is is not at the location shown on the map on the above link.
Maybe it's just my mind going or my computer, nearly as old as me, not being accurate enough.

Murphybear

Dodgy hips and knees are getting more common with an ageing population.

If you have these replaced you will appreciate having no stairs!

Bungalows are great, you get better use of the space. Perhaps you could find a bungalow a bit larger than the one you showed?

seven-day-weekend

zygurat789 wrote: »

It has been a long time since I was round there but my recollection is that the street in which your house is is not at the location shown on the map on the above link.
Maybe it's just my mind going or my computer, nearly as old as me, not being accurate enough.

I must be getting old too, but I cannot see a map on the link?