Two almost identical houses I plan to offer on - thoughts?

moneyistooshorttomention

Cakeguts wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50996262.html This house is round the corner from the one you are looking at and is much cheaper and bigger. Which makes the terraced houses that you are looking at overpriced which probably explains why they haven't sold.

Terrace/3 storey/garage underneath living accommodation though....

WibblyGirly

Cakeguts wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50996262.html This house is round the corner from the one you are looking at and is much cheaper and bigger. Which makes the terraced houses that you are looking at overpriced which probably explains why they haven't sold.

This might be one of the ugliest houses I've ever seen :rotfl:

I'm sure someone was recently murdered in Roundhay Park. I think its a big student area too and not all parts are that nice as I'm sure its where I went through on the bus and saw bars on the windows. :eek: It's next to Seacroft too which is a right dump.

Cakeguts

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Terrace/3 storey/garage underneath living accommodation though....

£65k cheaper though. That is a lot of money and sold. Accommodation is not that much different still a terrace and the back garden is much nicer

Lolly88

Cakeguts wrote: »

Link detached is a terraced house with a more expensive price tag than a terraced with a house next door. The point is that you can't get from the front to the back of the house without going through some part of the building. Detached means space all round the house. There is no way that these houses are detached. They are not semis either as there is no space between them and next door on either side. So therefore they are a row of terraced houses.

Working on the basis that they are terraced.(It only takes one neighbour to convert their garage to living space) they are very expensive for what they are.

No one said they were detached - they are link detached - in their current state that's what they are. This is a category of housing that whether you approve or not exists so to call them terraced is inaccurate. People don't generally buy detached houses because they care about being able to walk around their home without going through a building - they generally do so because they don't want to share common walls due to noise or being overlooked etc - these are issues you would also avoid to some extent with a link detached which is why they are more expensive than terraces but cheaper than detached and some semi's.

Cakeguts

Lolly88 wrote: »

No one said they were detached - they are link detached - in their current state that's what they are. This is a category of housing that whether you approve or not exists so to call them terraced is inaccurate. People don't generally buy detached houses because they care about being able to walk around their home without going through a building - they generally do so because they don't want to share common walls due to noise or being overlooked etc - these are issues you would also avoid to some extent with a link detached which is why they are more expensive than terraces but cheaper than detached and some semi's.

It wasn't me it was the land registry that calls them terraced. So the land registry is inaccurate?

Look at the previous sales on the Rightmove page.

The definition of a terrace is a row of houses that are all joined to each other by any part of another building. The builders invented the name link detached so that they could charge more for what is actually a terraced house. The fact that some people will pay more for them doesn't mean that they aren't terraced. You can't have something that is link detached. It is either detached or it isn't.

shortcrust

I’ve not seen link detached before. I don’t like it. It somehow looks more crowded than a terrace

sew_what

WibblyGirly wrote: »

This might be one of the ugliest houses I've ever seen :rotfl:

I'm sure someone was recently murdered in Roundhay Park. I think its a big student area too and not all parts are that nice as I'm sure its where I went through on the bus and saw bars on the windows. :eek: It's next to Seacroft too which is a right dump.

I live near the Park and don't recall any recent murders!

Leeds' student area is Headingley - over 2 miles West of here, and Seacroft is over 2 miles East!

It's actually a very diverse community, with a mix of leafy streets with Edwardian houses, interwar semis, postwar council houses and more modern houses. Something for everyone!

Lolly88

Cakeguts wrote: »

It wasn't me it was the land registry that calls them terraced. So the land registry is inaccurate?

Look at the previous sales on the Rightmove page.

The definition of a terrace is a row of houses that are all joined to each other by any part of another building. The builders invented the name link detached so that they could charge more for what is actually a terraced house. The fact that some people will pay more for them doesn't mean that they aren't terraced. You can't have something that is link detached. It is either detached or it isn't.

The land registry doesn’t formally list houses as link detached although it acknowledges it as a category: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662877/Annex-B-Property-type-classification-HM-Land_Registry.pdf

It will list them as either detached, semi, or terraced. My friend lives in a link detached house which is listed as detached on the land registry and some in the same row are listed as terraced and others as semi-detached despite their being no difference between them. It has no bearing on the price they sell for because fundamentally they are all link detached. Regardless of what it is listed as it doesn’t change the fact that they will generally attract a greater premium over standard terraces as a result.

Cakeguts

Lolly88 wrote: »

The land registry doesn’t formally list houses as link detached although it acknowledges it as a category: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662877/Annex-B-Property-type-classification-HM-Land_Registry.pdf

It will list them as either detached, semi, or terraced. My friend lives in a link detached house which is listed as detached on the land registry and some in the same row are listed as terraced and others as semi-detached despite their being no difference between them. It has no bearing on the price they sell for because fundamentally they are all link detached. Regardless of what it is listed as it doesn’t change the fact that they will generally attract a greater premium over standard terraces as a result.

It actually doesn't matter what it is listed as so long as someone wants to buy it.

I will always think of link detached as a kind of terrace that some people will pay more for but which I would not buy under any circumstances because I view them as mostly overpriced for what they are. Some people like them. Some people like me hate them.

What is most important is how they compare in price to what else is on the market. A house would have to be much bigger and better to be £60k more than one that has sold recently. I am not sure that these are?

StumpyPumpy

getmore4less wrote: »

Never had a long link break using insert link(Between font color and insert image on the edit bar looks like this ).

this is the insert link for No26 with no editing(the text break is in the link text not the URL that still works.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=10249182&sale=53878041&country=england

This link has been created using the URL as a link text first as I explained as one of the workarounds in my previous comment where copying the link text out of the comment and pasting it into a browser address bar will fail rather than the actual link - note the space that has been wrongly inserted in "co untry" (50th char after the hyphen).

Whatever: I'm happy it works for you. It really isn't an discussion for this thread and MSE have been made aware of it years ago (vBulletin 3.8.4 IIRC, about 7 years ago) and they are not interested in fixing it. I only made the comment in the first place because the OP quoted my post with the broken links before I had a chance to edit and add a workaround to the originals. I just wanted to warn that the copied links will fail if anyone clicks on them.

SP