House or a Flat

rosyw

I'd go for a house every time - never a flat!

I think you are making the classic error of not seeing past the furniture, curtains etc. in the house, this is what is making it look dated, & it would certainly cost a lot less than you imagine to replace carpets, re decorate etc.

Dan-Dan

rosyw wrote: »

I'd go for a house every time - never a flat!

I think you are making the classic error of not seeing past the furniture, curtains etc. in the house, this is what is making it look dated, & it would certainly cost a lot less than you imagine to replace carpets, re decorate etc.

Or maybe not , they seem to have the area sussed....and location matters first

rosie383

For me it would be property 2. If you weren't planning on having kids then it's different. As many people will tell you, trying to keep noise levels down in a flat can be difficult with kids.
I think if prices continue to rise then in a few years you may not be able to afford a 3 bed house for your growing family hopefully. Especially if you decide that you want one of you to stop work for any length of time to raise your family.
It does all depend on the estate too. Could be a lovely place to live or not. Location would take precedence over size for me if I couldn't decide.

tain

THIS COULD BE COMPLETELY WRONG - but if you're considering resale, I'd have a look at everything in the immediate area on right move and see what the volumes are for each type of property, and how long the listings have been on there (both buy and rent).

If there are 100's of flats, and loads of them have been on there for months and months, yet only 15 houses and they don't seem to be staying around for more than 3-6 months... Might be telling you it's a good area for family homes, not so great for 'young people' flats. Conversely, if the flats are going like hotcakes - might be a student area where a flat is almost guaranteed rent. That kind of thing.

Waterlily24

The house for me too.

lazer

The house doesn't look like it would take much modernisation to me, there is a modern kitchen in place and doesn't seem to me much outdated built in furniture etc.


New carpets/flooring, and painted and a re-vamp of the bathroom to include a shower would be all I would do!


The flat does not appeal to me at all, but then I don't like open plan anywhere, but the kitchen/lounge seems dark to me, and in picture 7 there are marks on the carpet where there obviously a wardrobe or something and the wall here appears to have damp patches - have you checked this out?

fairy_lights

phemark wrote: »

High spec flat > low spec house for me. (We are buying new build flat in London right now, so we had to make the same decision).

The flat in question doesn't look particularly high spec though...

phemark

fairy_lights wrote: »

The flat in question doesn't look particularly high spec though...

It might not be "high spec", but compared to the house it looks more modern and "new".

GalaxyStar

House, we started looking in 2013 for a flat, they were small, had little parking (nowhere for OHs scooter), and the noise pollution from neighbours put me off totally. Flat turned to 2 bed terraced. Same predicament with half of them. 2 bed end of/semi. Not many of those about and some were actually more expensive than a 3 bed! so it turned into a search for a 3 bed semi! a house is more future proof, if we couldnt move at least we've got a place to grow with us. Ours needed fully modernising, everything needed doing but make sure the electrics are good as that's what would take up a lot of money, the actual decor wouldn't take it up to 10k though

Greeniron

The house, or at least not the flat. The lack of central heating, greater potential for noise and this type of design, open plan with few windows all put me off.