How many houses did you view?

Emmazom

We've had the wow factor twice, particularly with the one we viewed yesterday. I knew I would love it before we even viewed.

It's edwardian, absolutely huge, in great condition (from what we can see), original features, and not a bad area, although it is on a main road.

We viewed the whole house with out mouths agape and as soon as we left my partner said put in an offer, we had other viewings that day so decided to wait for later.

We talked ourselves out of it, there is on street parking but only room for one car, and that;s if someone else hasn't parked their, we plan to start a family shortly so would definitely need the 2 cars back again, so we decided against it.

Now I just wonder wether we should make such a big deal out of it or not, does anyone here have no parking? How do you get around it?

steph2901

When I bought my current house, I'd looked at 7 other houses before I decided on this one.

Grenage

Emmazom wrote: »

Now I just wonder wether we should make such a big deal out of it or not, does anyone here have no parking? How do you get around it?

You park and walk. It's not that much of a chore really.

ElsieMonkey

Emmazom wrote: »

I hope we're not, we saw a property yesterday and the house itself was more than we could have wanted, but there was no parking so we didn't go any further.

Can you really not compromise on off street parking?

Have you seen anything with off street parking where the house is also as good as this one you saw yesterday?

Are you being realistic? Have you done your research and seen that plenty of houses you like the look of with off street parking exist IN your budget? If you're scraping the barrel to find these then you may be waiting for something that will never materialise.

Maybe you should go back for second viewing on the one yesterday, and really see if you can feel happy with parking on the street.

LittleMax

When we were first time buyers in 2002 we had decided on a particular estate we liked. We viewed 4 properties on the same day, and knew as soon as we went into the 4th that it was the one for us. Made an offer on the spot.

This time we looked at new builds, saw two properties that we liked but it was more about choosing the best plot so in some ways easier.

Our list of essentials are around being on a quiet street for the cat, not being overlooked and having off road parking for 3 vehicles. This tends to narrow the field down quite a bit so we tend to not be too picky over and above this.

Clutterfree

1991 - FTBs viewed 3, bought the third.
2002 - weren't planning on moving but saw a period property in our village for sale, liveable but needed a lot of work. Put our house on market and sold same day within hours (probably under valued but you live and learn! )
2013 - weren't planning on moving but went to view a property in our village. Could smell damp at front door so that was a no! Didn't look for any other properties.
2016 - saw a period property in next village, needs updating but fine otherwise. Put our house on market, accepted an offer on ours 2 weeks ago and had our offer accepted on the period house.

So in answer - 3, 1, 1.

Because we are quite particular in our wants - non-estate, period property, doer-upper, parking we knew we had to find somewhere before marketing ours.

Fingers crossed it all goes through...

[Deleted User]

Where abouts in the Midlands are you?

We viewed 5 in total but I grew up here so know the areas to avoid. There were very few houses within our price range in the good areas which whittled it down a lot!

Clutterfree

Emmazom wrote: »

We've had the wow factor twice, particularly with the one we viewed yesterday. I knew I would love it before we even viewed.

It's edwardian, absolutely huge, in great condition (from what we can see), original features, and not a bad area, although it is on a main road.

We viewed the whole house with out mouths agape and as soon as we left my partner said put in an offer, we had other viewings that day so decided to wait for later.

We talked ourselves out of it, there is on street parking but only room for one car, and that;s if someone else hasn't parked their, we plan to start a family shortly so would definitely need the 2 cars back again, so we decided against it.

Now I just wonder wether we should make such a big deal out of it or not, does anyone here have no parking? How do you get around it?

If that house had parking it would be priced accordingly and probably out of your budget.

Most people have to compromise on something.

Emmazom

We can settle with off street parking but as this isn't a designated spot it's not always likely to be available, we would quite happily park over the road, or further down the street but again there isn't a lot available.

Especially with us planning on having a child I don't particularly want to walk miles from where I have parked come rain or shine. There's also no rear access to the property (it's terraced) so again would need somewhere for vans etc to stop.

We're aware that to get somewhere with space to park we will probably have to settle for a different style of house, as edwardian/victorian homes aren't known for their winding drives, I'm just struggling to visualise putting an offer in on a house I don't love.

I'm on right move etc every day so feel I have a good grasp of what's out there and what we can afford, we're currently looking, tipton/wednesbury/west bromwich in the Midlands

ElsieMonkey

Our wants list for the one we're buying now was:
Victorian or Edwardian
4 double bedrooms (the area we're buying in has a lot of stock like this)
Garden
Close to station
Max 15 min walk to town/beach and supermarket

We have a car but off street parking just doesn't exist with the style of houses we were looking at/wanted so I didn't give it any further thought. It doesn't bother me.

The one thing I thought I wouldn't be able to compromise on was garden size. But our budget dictated to us that we would only be able to afford a small garden, plus the period properties are town houses and don't have big gardens anyway. We would have had to go further out of town and for a 1930s style house for the garden, but I surprised myself that I wasn't prepared to make this sacrifice for a garden. Turns out we have everything on our list but with a small courtyard style garden instead.