What is the biggest thing that would put you off a house?

Bonniepurple

Area
No off road parking 
Steps to the front door and back garden 
No bath
One toilet (that’s me of the reasons we’re moving!)
unadopted road
Next to shops (been there done that - 5.55am delivery lorries reversing every. single.day.)
Obviously if the neighbours clearly are thugs then that’s a no, but neighbours can and do change so that nice elderly bloke might be replaced by a thug at any point. 

phoebe1989seb

Main road, attached, too many neighbours in close proximity, small garden, near to a school or nursery.

We've previously lived in a stunning (imho) period house on a rural A-road where the traffic noise/rumbling and consequent shaking of the property was terrible. Also another (city) detached period house on a main road with traffic lights/double yellows and a bus stop close by..... I know, what the heck were we thinking?!?!

So no more main roads for me, especially as I'm really sensitive to extraneous sounds 🙄

We also owned a large Victorian house next to what started as a small a nursery school. Firstly it expanded into the entire property, then it went on to open a second branch opposite. Parking - although we had permits - was a nightmare and the noise from screaming kids in the garden was unbearable at times.

Rural all the way for us now!

Splatfoot

Shared drive
close to pylons
No parking
no hallway
Built right on the road (no pavement etc). Even if it was quiet, I wouldn't be able to sleep for fear of someone crashing into the house.
On a big estate
Modern

SallyDucati

Main road
No drive
Road packed with cars (making visitor parking difficult)
Too big a garden!  (I'm not a gardener but like my small back one)
large modern developments

tealady

On a main road
No off road parking
North facing house
On a rat run
Near to a school 
No shower 
Poor broadband
On a steep hill

Hannimal

Greatgimp said:

Primary school (parents picking up kids creates traffic nightmare), buzzy electric boxes up poles and in the street, factory/shops traffic, attached property, garage you can't get a car in, busy pub ( remember them?), smelly petrol garage, anything that increases pollution (roundabout, t junction etc), tourist area, steep hills, unadopted or shared private roads, crime hotspots, still thinking... may come back with more!

Described my house just there  

Hannimal

Honestly, a lot of yous have described the house I've just bought - unadopted alleyway at the back and on a very very steep hill. It's also small and not south facing. No drive either. It's my starter-home.

In an ideal world I would have so many things different - I'd be in a victorian house walking distance from work and city centre, I'd have a drive and a car and a husband a child and a six figure salary. Unfortunately realistically I have had to make do with being a single person on a modest salary, so a lot of the things that would in an ideal world be no-nos for me have gone out the window. I would've bought on a busy road - even offered on one on a main road but perhaps luckily didn't get it. I definitely opted for moving to an area I wouldn't have dreamt of living in a few years ago, because in this city I could not afford a house in a more desirable area. So I guess what I am saying is that I think every house will find a buyer when the price is right, and many people are willing to compromise to get on the property ladder. 

WiseOwl00

Leasehold
Being on a hill

Drive on a slope - I have too much of a fear of parking on hills, heard too many stories of handbrakes failing 
Main road 
No bath or space for a bath 

lady1964

Shared drive
No drive
No access to rear garden
Stairs in the living room (spent 23 years in our last house with that & always hated it)
No utility room
No en suite or no way of having one put in
Sloping garden
North facing garden
Too close to a school (we have one around the corner but parking is never an issue)
On a main road
Large rear garden
Poky kichen
Blimey, I’m quite picky 😂

ouraggie

Being overlooked in back garden
No gas supply, so electric hob 😡
Near a school, bus stop or pub
Sycamore tree in the road, near to house (got this now. The leaves drive me mad).
Beige travertine tiles in the bathroom. 
Stone cladding.