Buy a home to do it up myself

eddddy

Skag wrote: »

i.e. where do you find such properties, if not Rightmove.

There are no 'secret' property listings. (Why would anyone want to advertise their property on a listing that's difficult for buyers to find?)

If you're not finding the type of properties you want on the main portals (like Rightmove), they probably don't exist.

NinaSwiss

Perhaps you just not looking when they are advertised and can go very quickly especially if priced right.

I recommend you reach out regularly to estate agents in the areas you want to buy. Make them know to contact you should they find themselves trying to flog a doer/upper.

quantumlobster

Skag wrote: »

Basically the issue is that me and my family are very tall and we need everything to be made in our measures, I don't look to flip properties.
So we want everything do be done from scratch.

Easy. Buy a 1930s semi with 2.7M ceilings.

TamsinC

Build your own

ACG

I have done a few renovation properties to live in.
The trick is to buy them in a poor condition but habitable.

So heating, electrics, kitchen and bathroom all in place, even if they are old/not very nice. As soon as you start looking at properties which have extensive damp problems, structural issues etc you start needing to look at bridging loans rather than a normal mortgage and that is where costs in finance start to mount up and dig in to your profit.

On a side note, your not paying a premium for a property which is in a move in condition, your paying the going rate. I am also not sure you would need to pull everything out - that seems a little extreme. Prime example being one of the properties we bought the stairs had been borded up on the rail. I took that off and the spindles that were underneath we stripped and varnished - cost to completely alter the stairs was about 2 days and £20.

Same goes for the doors, they had been painted in a yellow gloss with a wood effect in the paint, we just stripped and varnished those, again no money spent on doors/hinges - just a few days and some varnish and some new handles.