House with 36" water main running under the garden

danlightbulb

% moet2 said:

Maybe look at a really cheap dilapidated property on a decent plot and consider knocking it down and putting something to your taste and requirements on it.

Cant afford it. Come on, who can afford this? If I could afford this I wouldn't be needing a 90% mortgage on £180k. Some people here live in a different world.

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.... but that's the nature of a national forum though, isn't it - we all do live in different worlds and why so much good/help/advice comes from fresh eyes to something that seems insurmountable at the time, to the person.

Tiglet2

Reading through your previous threads, danlightbulb, you do have a small budget for your list of wants and wishes.  The house you want and your requirements are not going to get you that house within your budget.  You either wait until the perfect house comes up, if ever, or you get onto the ladder now with compromises. 

We were all first time buyers once and bought properties we could afford, with associated compromises.  It seems that you want a detached property, more than two reception rooms, a decent size garden, a garage or outbuildings, parking, potential to extend and in quite a specific area.  A look on Rightmove suggests that you are not going to get all that on your wish list for £180,000. 

 I have moved several times in order to improve on more space and room.  My current house still doesn't have all that I wished for and it has taken many years to get what I currently have.  There comes a time when you have to pick the best you can and perhaps consider moving once more in the future to gain those extra wants and wishes. 

My son had a similar budget to you but he knew that he could not possibly buy a house in our area with anywhere near the wants and wishes that you have, even though he would have loved to have been able to.  £180,000 here will get you a studio apartment.  You should think you are lucky you can look at freehold 3 bed houses, but the price bracket of your area would suggest that your ideal house will be over £220,000.  If you cannot stretch to that, then you are unrealistic with what you expect to get in your budget.

I will assume that the bungalow you pulled out of has now sold to someone else, so the new buyer thought it was worth the sale price, even if you did not.

 I think it is not me that is living in a different world.  It's you.

Tiglet2

Incidentally, I had a water main passing under my garden in a previous house.  It also went under my neighbour's conservatory.  There were covenants on my deeds to say that no concrete building could be constructed above it.  My neighbour had similar but still built his conservatory.  We did have a problem with the water main - it was blocked by some developers building a small development further up the road.  The water company dug up my garden and next door and replaced my pipe.  The pipe under my neighbour's conservatory was capped off and re-routed in his garden to join up with the main, so the conservatory was not demolished.  Yes, you do have to allow access or look into possibly re-routing the main or obtaining a build-over agreeement.  The house actually looks like it meets a lot of your criteria, but if the water main is a deal breaker, I guess this is a moot point.  Next.