Would you buy a house on a private road?

paulsad

I regularly deliver to some posh newbuilds off a private road and its a !!!!in nightmare - huge potholes - my customer said the road is owned by the local farmer and he refuses to allow any filling in as the road is then used as a cut through by speeding motorists - the lady has had to buy a 4x4 just to get to her home as the road was ruining her old car's suspension.

makeyourdaddyproud

Slinky wrote: »

It's funny how people view things. Our local estate agents see the few private roads round here as selling points.

It's a selling point only to those with infinite pockets. How lucky for some!

Missus_Hyde

There was another thread on this subject here.

macman

ellie27 wrote: »

A house we are looking at is on a private road.

The road has 3 detached houses on it.

Owners say they have never had any problems on the road and they did have pot-hole filling in and split the cost 3 ways. Neighbour on one side been there for 45 years and other neighbour around 25 years.

Would the private road put you off? I wonder if thats one of the reason it has not been bought already.

Which means that the odds of at least one property changing hands in the next few years is very high...if no formal agreement exists, there is always the chance that future maintenance will be an issue.

Hoploz

We were interested in a house on a private road last year. There was a company for its maintenance which consisted of the six houses that used it. They apparently shared the cost of a few hundred pounds as and when it was required. It was in a very poor state with huge potholes, which we queried with the EA who said the seller was going to ensure that the road was resurfaced by the time of completion. He said it was normally done every 3 or 4 years. That put me off as i couldn't see how it was possibly being maintained at all if this is what it was like after only 3 years!

We were thinking that we would change our car after new house - the house was under budget so we could have basically afforded whatever car we wanted. But we were concluding that we could never have the neat convertible we hankered after and would have to get a 4x4 instead

We ended up not buying the house for other reasons, but someone else did. We went down the road about 6 months later and it was either never resurfaced or was done so rubbishly that it was still full of horrendous pot holes.

So glad we are not there. Still got the old car but a nicer house

moneyistooshorttomention

I don't know what the EA meant here by resurfacing. When I say resurfacing I mean resurfacing.

Its my understanding that the worst case analysis of how often a road needed resurfacing would be at 20 year intervals at the most.

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LOL at the thought of a private road being a selling point to those with "infinite pockets". I wish......:rotfl:

Doesn't stop people already living in said private road thinking you must have plenty of money or you wouldn't be coming to live in "their road".....yeh right....:cool:.

ManuelG

I grew up on a private road made up of earth.

It's only the bit that someone tarmaced over that breaks up!

pickles13

Missus_Hyde wrote: »

There was another thread on this subject here.

Ooh thats my thread....well we decided to go ahead!

ellie27

pickles13 wrote: »

Ooh thats my thread....well we decided to go ahead!

Haha, so did we - we had an offer accepted this afternoon!

I read your thread too!

Missus_Hyde

Glad to hear it, Pickles!!:j