Link detached or end terrace?

twinniesplusone

I’m currently in process of buying a house. The estate agent have listed it as link detached the council as terrace. It is a detached two story with ground floor (hallway and utility) attached to another house (in middle of another). Everything on google says link detached are houses attached by garage. So would it be a link detached or end of terrace as it’s always been link that not a conversion. 

HRH_MUngo

I personally would call it a terrace. It's in a row of houses joined to each other. 

PasturesNew

It's an end of terrace, technically.  As you say, a link detached should just be a garage.  You'd be joined by habitable rooms, allbeit you rarely sleep on the stairs unless you're drunk and can't quite make it to bed  

The link detached is either an agent trying to lure people in, deliberately choosing those words, or just a simpleton mistake and misunderstanding (they can be wet behind the ears).  

The thing is: whatever it is called, are you happy with the house and the price.  That's all you should care about, not wording.  Are you happy that the house you are buying is the best you could get for your budget, right now (as you are restricted by only having access to houses that are actually for sale).  

If I thought this house was the best I could get at £X I'd not worry about wording.  Semi, end of terrace, link detached: all just words.  Do you think you could do better in your budget?  Probably not. 

Davesnave

What Pastures said.

Doozergirl

What Davesnave said ☺️

RelievedSheff

Terraced..

davidmcn

I'm not aware of there being any "official" designation of such things, so make of it what you will. Out of interest, where do the council list it as terraced? 

twinniesplusone

we are happy with every we are happy with everything just want to get the right terminology for insurance - although I think I will mention all this to them. It’s on most lists I’ve found as terrace not one thing as link so far. 

Cakeguts

Link detached is estate agent speak for terraced that is going to cost you more money.   Detached means not joined onto anything else except perhaps a garage but that is not joined onto anything else and in theory you can walk all the way round the property without going through any building or part of a building. Semi detached means one wall is attached but you can walk all the way round the rest of it.

Terraced is where the property is attached to something else on both sides so you have to walk through some other building to get to the back from the front.

All link detached house are in fact terraced houses.

Lokolo

Cakeguts said:

All link detached house are in fact terraced houses.

Or semi-detached. 

Lokolo

twinniesplusone said:

we are happy with every we are happy with everything just want to get the right terminology for insurance - although I think I will mention all this to them. It’s on most lists I’ve found as terrace not one thing as link so far. 

Personally I'd use whatever your survey said it was. Mine stated it as detached so I put that on insurance form.