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Why isn't my flat selling?
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It's only three floors up. There's no lift. That's normal in Scotland, not sure what you English are used to! A lift would of course make any charges significantly higher, so take your pick.
A modern build block of flats would have a lift even if there were only 2 floors, I believe, due to the laws around accessibility for wheelchair users and people with mobility problems.0 -
No 19 is on record for selling at £110k April 2017
Looks like it may have been the same type of layout.
Planning for this development was back in 2006.
Approved April 2007
06/01188/PP
https://www.eplanning.north-ayrshire.gov.uk/OnlinePlanning
google maps shows the build for this block was started around 2009 and they were still selling in 2011 and sold prices would indicate the last sold later.0 -
No, I don't think those are current regulations, at least in Scotland - there are newbuild developments being marketed now which don't have lifts (e.g. this one), though it may be more of an expectation for higher class developments.Red-Squirrel wrote: »A modern build block of flats would have a lift even if there were only 2 floors, I believe, due to the laws around accessibility for wheelchair users and people with mobility problems.
There are limited accessibility requirements for floor levels of dwellings which can be accessed by wheelchair users e.g. houses needing to have a downstairs toilet, but that doesn't mean everything needs to have a lift.0 -
Lovely flat, clearly the issue is the price and the lack of a lift, you are even moving yourself for that very reason.
2 beds likely will attract a family, not good carrying a pustchair up 3 fights of stairs.
Drop the price or wait, either way it will sell, just might be a good while off if you opt for the latter.
A requirement for a lift is probably another 50 years off...we are just at the stage where the requirement
is the Bathroom has to have a door wide enough for a wheelchair, the rest of the doors can be unable to fit a wheelchair!0
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