Offset Garden

lincroft1710

OP's other thread

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5743289

Littlebobo1981

If your front garden is large enough to be used as a back garden I would do that as then you can sell your house as the offset garden being 'extra' much like a allotment.

All the houses with offset gardens I looked at they were the only usable space (front gardens if any were tiny).

I would have offered on one if they had a front garden big enough to use as a garden meaning the offset bit was 'extra'.

Another option would be to make the front into a drive, however personally i don't think this is necessary as parking is never really a problem here ..just people seem to like that ..so many options that i can see just the $$$ to do it ..makes me wonder if we should just stay and do the work but that will mean money we don't really have and my son is really wanting to move to somewhere his friends are now

ProDave

It would still be interesting and save a lot of confusion for buyers if you could do a sketch of how it is laid out and include that with the sales particulars.

Even to state on the particulars the garden is accessed by a very short walk along a shared rear path.

Downsides are might be difficult or impossible to get power to a shed or workshop and obviously not as convenient.

Cakeguts

I think that the garden is actually not attached to the house? It isn't really what most people would consider to be a garden but more of an extra plot of land that goes with the house.

Lizabeth21

I think looking at this and your other thread that your front garden is good - but would benefit from the gardeners attention. Also start packing away all unnecessary stuff (you’ll have to soon anyway) -it looks small because you’ve obviously grown out of it! The separate garden is a bonus.

Cakeguts

The non attached garden is going to be a huge problem because you don't have any control over the garden immediately outside the back of your house. If you got a neighbour from hell they could plant large trees in their or a hedge that takes all the light from the back of your house.

Your house is like a house with a front garden only and a seperate plot. This arrangement won't work for most people so to sell the house you need to sell it for the price of a house that doesn't have a back garden but which does have a small plot of land that goes with it.

Cakeguts

There is a 3 bed house that needed a bit of updating like yours that sold for £200k in 2017. It had a back garden. So if a 3 bed house with an upstairs bathroom and a back garden is going to sell for £200k that means that your house is very overpriced.

You have to set the price where someone will pay it inspite of the disadvantages to your house. Your house needs to seem to be good value for money.

iammumtoone

Cakeguts wrote: »

Your house is like a house with a front garden only and a seperate plot. This arrangement won't work for most people so to sell the house you need to sell it for the price of a house that doesn't have a back garden but which does have a small plot of land that goes with it.

But the OPs front garden looks as big as many houses back garden, if the layout was changed and the path put to the side there would be a useable size of available garden.

Then the back garden would be an extra,

Priced right it would be a nice set up.

Cakeguts

iammumtoone wrote: »

Priced right it would be a nice set up.

Exactly and at the moment it isn't priced for that market. It is priced for a house with an upstairs bathroom and an attached back garden.

Littlebobo1981

So the estate agents have incorrectly valued our house then ? they actually said more than we have put it up for !?..

We paid 144995 for it 13 years ago, given the amount of work we have had done to it ( new central heating, 3 damp courses, structural work, guttering, flat roof, new boiler, bathroom replaced i'm kind of !!!!ed that now it's not likely anyone will buy it because the gardens not attached to the property..yes we were young and stupid when we purchased ( i was only 23) but the garden is huge and someone with a vision could easily add an outbuilding there ( such as my neighbor has) and use it as an office ...perhaps i can convince husband to do that and we will just have to stay here for ever ..sorry venting but totally fed up with this house ..our loft is bursting full of stuff we have saved and saved despite me losing my job and husband also loosing his..add a young child to that and well we should be happy with what we have !

I think if we put it on for 200k that would be a steal as there are much smaller homes on busy streets going for that round here ..maybe i have an over inflated idea of how much my house is worth ..SIGH !

Sorry fed up with it all and so very tempted to just give up and accept we are stuck here forever.