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Is this 'Semi-detached?'
ncfcfan
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Hello.
We've put our house on the market and recently viewed the below house.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-82558112.html
We like it, and may well make an offer, but it's probably a bit overpriced. We viewed an identical house down the road which is on for £230k, and open to reasonable offers. Granted the house we like has had it's downstairs renovated, which probably explains the price difference, but I wouldn't have thought by that much.
It's billed as semi-detached, but it's not detached from anything. Is this something we could negotiate on? There's still a bit of work to be done - the decking is rotting, the garden is overgrown (not shown in pics) and there's certainly some tidying up to do.
We've put our house on the market and recently viewed the below house.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-82558112.html
We like it, and may well make an offer, but it's probably a bit overpriced. We viewed an identical house down the road which is on for £230k, and open to reasonable offers. Granted the house we like has had it's downstairs renovated, which probably explains the price difference, but I wouldn't have thought by that much.
It's billed as semi-detached, but it's not detached from anything. Is this something we could negotiate on? There's still a bit of work to be done - the decking is rotting, the garden is overgrown (not shown in pics) and there's certainly some tidying up to do.
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yes i would say thats semi detached0
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Eh. People often say semi's are where you should be able to walk to the back garden without going through a building, which this wouldnt qualify as.
It clearly started off as a semi, I can say that!0 -
It looks likes they were originally semi-detached and both the property you like and its neighbour to the right have both extended into the side return. I think you can say it is semi-detached.0
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Do YOU think it's "semi-detached"? Does it matter in any other way at all, apart from what you want to call it? If you think it's worth £X, and the vendor is happy to sell for that, then you've found it's value, regardless of whatever labels you want to attach. If you think it's worth less than that, and the vendor doesn't want to sell for that, then there's no sale - again, regardless of label.
How about "link-semi-detached"? Now there's a term that could gain some traction...0 -
It's only attached to one other property, which makes it semi-detached. So here is nothing to negotiate in this regard.It's billed as semi-detached, but it's not detached from anything.
To me from the pictures it looks in decent shape, but if you have concerns feel free to raise them with the vendor and negotiate better price.0 -
One of the reasons we want to move out of our 2 bed terrace is because you have to traipse through the house to get to the garden. Not ideal if you're doing garden work/rubbish removal.
This house wouldn't really solve that issue, hence why the whole 'semi-detached' billing, is only slightly misleading.0 -
It's only attached to one other property, which makes it semi-detached. So here is nothing to negotiate in this regard.
To me from the pictures it looks in decent shape, but if you have concerns feel free to raise them with the vendor and negotiate better price.
Well, it's not only attached to one other property. It's clearly attached to the utility room of the house next door (right).0 -
The other day there was a 'critique my house' thread where the OP ended up quite upset, hers was a modern link-det and people kept [STRIKE] repeating over and over again [/STRIKE] saying that it was not a semi in any way shape or form0
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I used to live in a definitely detached house - no party walls at all - where you couldn't get to the back garden without going through.One of the reasons we want to move out of our 2 bed terrace is because you have to traipse through the house to get to the garden. Not ideal if you're doing garden work/rubbish removal.
This house wouldn't really solve that issue, hence why the whole 'semi-detached' billing, is only slightly misleading.0 -
Not sure what you mean by "something we can negotiate on"? It's obvious what it is, we're not talking about some feature which has e.g. only been uncovered by a survey. Some people might pay more if it were "properly" semi-detached, I don't know. It's not "terraced".0
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