Dilemma big house with small garden vs small house with big garden

missbiggles1

lee111s wrote: »

20m is still a decent sized garden.

Really? I didn't consider 60sqm to be a large garden.

lee111s

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Really? I didn't consider 60sqm to be a large garden.

Depends what you're used to!

However, I misread that it was square meters, I thought the OP meant 20m in length

Hoploz

On reading the title, I was going to say, buy the smaller house with bigger garden, as you can change the house but not the plot size.

However, the garden size is not the issue - the concrete building is going to be awkward to mortgage, and equally awkward for your buyer when you come to sell. And if you think you're planning to stay a long time, that almost makes it worse because by the time you come to sell it'll be even older and even more liable to problems with the structure, making it even harder for a future buyer to mortgage. I would steer clear.

westernpromise

What Hoploz said.

Also, you hear of people wishing the house was bigger much more frequently than their wishing the garden was bigger. As long as you have a space outside to sit in for the few days in the year when you can, you're doing OK. Unless you're a keen gardener a big garden just implies more work.

Noctu

What are the two gardens like? Which way do they face? Which one seems more suited for your preferences and needs (e.g. do you prefer an ornate garden, or a garden with lots of places to sit, or something in between)?

We moved from a house with a massive North East facing garden to a small ish South West facing garden. The massive garden was difficult to maintain and got hardly any sun, despite looking very nice. The small ish garden gets sun from 10-11am to sunset, is flatter and is just so much easier to step out into, sit, and relax/eat/etc.


I would also never buy a no fines house due to the issues with obtaining a mortgage... a lot of people won't look at them because of this, which will make it more difficult to sell.

warby68

No to concrete house, regardless of garden. Not what you asked but you might be kind of sidelining the obvious by concentrating on the garden debate.

ellie27

lee111s wrote: »

20m is still a decent sized garden.

20 sqm is the size of my living room. You would be lucky to get a patio set and a couple potted plants in that area. Then where would the lawn go?

ellie27

Do you really have to choose just between those?

I would say go for the bigger house, but hearing the size of that garden I would NEVER buy a house with such a small garden.

The 60 sqm is still small..... have you got your measurements correct?

lee111s

ellie27 wrote: »

20 sqm is the size of my living room. You would be lucky to get a patio set and a couple potted plants in that area. Then where would the lawn go?

Read the thread. I corrected my mistake.

ellie27

lee111s wrote: »

Read the thread. I corrected my mistake.

I know, 20m in length is a pretty good sized garden (assuming the breadth isn't around 1m!)