Is this house worth £143k?!

lincroft1710

Cakeguts wrote: »

It wouldn't be worth anything to me at all because the stairs are in the living room. It may look very nice but you will find that the heat will all go up the stairs. (Hot air rises.) The landing at the top of the stairs will always be nice and warm.

Have to disagree on this one, my living room is nice and warm. But just walk up stairs from living room and landing definitely much cooler

Cakeguts

Expansion on the awful label. Flood risk? M1 noise? and parking?

booksurr

graemesmith88 wrote: »

Any expansion on the "awful" label? I understand it's small and the stair-in-lounge issue but so far otherwise I've not seen anything overtly horrifying.

consider who the target market is for that house. Obviously a "new" build development so max number of properties squeezed into smallest plot possible. So...

- it is a first time buyers property, it is too small to be anything else
- is the area one that attracts single FTB or just married FTB? Who are your neighbours and what sort of noise will they and you interact with. Is there are community or merely a dormitory feeling.
- yes it is 2 bed so the newly married can survive their first child, but will want to move when the second one arrives (unless they are like your vendors and clearly live in poverty cheek to jowel in an overcrowded house)
- yes it has a rear garden to put a kid outside in, but it is tiny and like a prison yard all fenced in!
- the lounge will forever need to retain a corridor from the front door so its configuration is limited. Stare at the radiator and the TV above it on the wall because nothing else can go that side of the room.
- open stairwell
- little storage space (vacuum cleaner hung on wall?)
- no kitchen wall cabinets so a family would struggle to store "stuff"
- under counter fridge and freezer or free standing fridge freezer? Either way they comprise further kitchen storage space

perfectly acceptable house for a single person, too much compromise for a family, therefore price is based on FTB low end affordability

StumpyPumpy

I grew up in a house with open stairs and heat disappearing up them was never a problem. The only real issue was not one that would impact a single occupier: namely noise from the living room (TV etc) disturbing children trying to sleep upstairs.

Oh and another problem that wouldn't affect the op: being a teenager returning home after an evening at the pub and having to pretend you're sober whilst climbing stairs to bed in full view of your parents.:rotfl:

SP

teddysmum

It looks very cramped, yet you can tell that the camera lens has exaggerated the size.


I had a work colleague who bought a house with a staircase in the living room (after living in the stairs in hall type) .He said he'd never have one again and didn't stay there for long.


Our houses have stairs in the hall, but the people a few doors down knocked the living room to hall wall down, making a larger living room, but the new buyers, reinstated the wall, before moving in.

Fosterdog

I'm another one not bothered by the open stairs, I grew up with open stairs, my second rented house had them and the house I've just bought we actually knocked down the hallway wall giving us open stairs plus a much bigger living area. Noise isn't really an issue as we tend to keep doors closed upstairs except when all doors and windows are open for an airing which tends to be when just one of us is home. Heat escaping also isn't an issue, downstrairs stays lovely and warm, the landing was quite cold until we added an extra radiator on the landing and now it's fine.

The thing that really puts me off the house is how small and cramped it is, look at the small gap to walk through, past the sofa to get into the kitchen. Not so bad if you had a smaller sofa but the room is still tiny and really won't hold much furniture plus as has already been said lack of storage.

Crashy_Time

Worth under 100k IMO.

searchlight123

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Worth under 100k IMO.

very helpful and incisive comment. well done you.

nkkingston

I suspect their lack of budging on the price has less to do with the cost of two bed terraces and a lot to o with the cost of 3-4 bed semis with larger gardens. We looked at a couple of places that size, and though stairs in the living room doesn't bother me in itself, the impact it has on storage was a massive issue - not enough space for book cases. It's cute, and I bet it's warm and well insulated, but you have to be very sensible about your belongings. Frankly, I'm incredibly impressed they've managed with three kids.

fairy_lights

It's uncomfortably small, for a two bedroom house that's not enough living space by far. Having both the front door, kitchen door, and stairs in the living room seriously restricts how what little space there is can be used.