Anyone else been gutted to sell house which you love?

TrudieinLondon

I dont feel that way yet but I am beginning to get little pangs. I think when it comes to exchanging I will feel sad. When I bought my house it was a compromise but over the years I have come to appreciate all its good points. Things like being halls adjoining so not hearing the neighbours, nice open plan layout, having a side entrance to the garden so not having to walk through the house, long private garden. I think I got a bargain.

Carl2510

I wasn’t to attached to my property, as it was more an investment when I bought it. Didn’t need a lot doing. But when I sold it and moved in with the in laws not far from it, it was very strange not being able to park up and just open the door I drove past it a few times but now I’ve stopped. 

Slithery

Carl2510 said:

I wasn’t to attached to my property, as it was more an investment when I bought it. Didn’t need a lot doing. But when I sold it and moved in with the in laws not far from it, it was very strange not being able to park up and just open the door I drove past it a few times but now I’ve stopped. 

I once moved to a different house in the same little village and it took me months to stop walking back to the old place after nipping to the local shop...

Splatfoot

We completed on our house last Tuesday. I loved our house. The kids grew up there, it's the longest I've lived anywhere and I was so worried I'd be full of regrets. But I haven't yet looked back. I think it may have helped that we are going off travelling in a van so all our stuff went into storage. It meant for the best part of a week, we were in a pretty much empty house which helped to de-personalise it. 

Scotbot

I have always been delighted to sell my houses, With one exception never liked  them,  they were pragmatic buys based on what I could afford and where my job was. My two favourite houses were both rentals.

RelievedSheff

We were quite the opposite when we sold out last house. We couldn't wait to hand over the keys and pick up the keys to our brand new home.


We had come to hate our last house which was unfair because it wasn't the house we hated it was the neighbours and the area. It was a weight lifted when we moved into the new house and we drove away from the old house for the last time.

Soot2006

I was very sad to leave out old house and particularly the garden. But I actually love the new house even more despite it needing so much more work now ... And I was feeling so despondent about  leaving behind a hand-landscaped fruit garden that I had nurtured out of a patch of mud over 10 years, but in the end the garden was the selling point that tipped the scales for our buyer (there were three houses for sale on our street due to the impending start of a big new development) . Lockdown and working from home since March has meant I have done three years worth of gardening in one summer here at the new house, so now you can imagine I feel better about it all and have a new long-term plan in place for house and garden.

MeandO

Yes, Me, very much so, it feel very much like a bereavement for me and I don't think I'll ever get over losing my last house.
It was my first house I bought for just me and DS after a divorce. I wasn't too sure about the house at first, but couldn't find anything else and knew I could make it lovely for us. I spent 18 months and lots of money decorating the place and landscaping the garden, when I found massive cracks through the upstairs walls internally and out. Whilst work was being done to repair the cause of this, more and more major problems were uncovered to the point where I had to make the heartbreaking decision to stop throwing money at it and move. I part exed for a new build, which then had horrific issues too and in which we have never settled.
I have now sold the new build and have been hunting for a new home for us for months and again, couldn't find anything. I have had an offer accepted on a house that is probably a quarter of the size of our last lovely house, but hopefully it will be enough for us to feel settled in and stay at least until DS is grown. The survey is being done today and I am so nervous more issues will be found, or even worse, missed, like the last one. I don't think I could go through all that again, I feel like I need a house to heal us now after the past few horrific years!

Imelda

Yes!
We are completing on our sale this week and moving into rented accommodation as we could not tie in our purchase with our sale.
I feel sad as this is the house we brought our babies home to and I have so many memories here. I think I would feel better if we were moving straight into our new house as I am excited about that but this stop-gap is giving me doubts (and anxiety that our purchase will fall through). However, I know it is the right thing to do. I will probably shed a little tear when I shut the door behind me.

lady1964

My youngest DD was the most upset out of myself, my DH and my other 2 DD’s as she couldn’t remember living anywhere else (she was 3 when we bought it) and we’d lived there for more than 20 years. Our other two DD’s had left home quite some time before we sold but youngest was still living there, we bought somewhere for her to live in so she wasn’t homeless!

I wasn’t sorry to see the house go as I’d already moved into our new home (long story, not very interesting), that said, I had some very happy memories of living in the house, it was in a nice area with good neighbours but I’d wanted to move to where I am now for a very long time so mentally, it wasn’t a biggie to leave behind.