julicorn's journey 2 - Moving Up

beanielou

LOve the flat. 

Likede Livingstone Road 1.

Sistergold

julicorn said:

Alright, in case some of you are still invested (wouldn't blame you if you'd thrown the towel by now ), here's the latest viewing list. The doer-upper sellers have accepted an offer already, so that one is out of the running. Ah well, saves us a whole lot of work  

Mr julicorn is viewing this one on his own this evening, because I'm still isolating (but looks like I'll be allowed back out tomorrow, hurray!): https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120159599#/

Tomorrow, we're starting things off with this viewing which we booked while we were still in Center Parcs, let's call it Livingstone Road 1: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/119759591#/
Then we're viewing a flat without a garden, but it's comically close to where we live now, so it would have been rude not to see it. I actually do like the look of it a lot, and it's very far under our budget, but the lack of garden is a shame for sure (although atm we're spending a lot more time on the beach and in the park than in our garden, and we will get that allotment at some point to....): https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120451613#/
We're then viewing a house that we were going to see last weekend already, which is when they had their open house. So it seems like they didn't accept an offer off the back of that... unusual: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/84004545#/
Aaaaand then another house on Livingstone Road has just been added as well, so we're closing off our excursion with that. We might be the first to go look at that one: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/120654617#/

I love all the houses you have listed! Fingers crossed you get one of them! 

julicorn

Nichelette said:

Not a flat person usually, but that flat is beautiful  . Anywhere else lack of garden would probably bother me, but you have a beach so meh, and think of how quickly you could get that mortgage down!

The one that backs on to the railway. Our house is parallel to the train track, we could literally spit on it from here and we can see the station from our house. We're in a village so not as busy, but the trains really don't bother us at all. I literally have to ask visitors if any have gone past because I blank them out

Either way those are a really nice selection so fingers crossed.

Thank you so much Nichelette! We could really make a good dent in that mortgage quite quickly, I'm not going to lie. And the area is honestly a dream, we love living here. It would be an amusingly easy move as well, haha!

And one of the student houses I lived in backed on a railway, I actually really liked that and found the sound really comforting. With Brighton being a terminus as well you don't really get super fast trains passing along there, they just slowly rumble into the station haha.

I'm really excited to get back out there tomorrow, it's been too long ❤

julicorn

beanielou said:

LOve the flat. 

Likede Livingstone Road 1.

I think we have really similar tastes, I remember you also really liked the twitten house haha! I think the flat is super pretty ❤

julicorn

And thanks so much @Sistergold, we'll give it our all 🥰

South_coast

Am on the edge of my seat waiting to hear how the viewings went 🤞🤞🤞!

julicorn

Thanks @South_coast , it is nice to see we're not all alone in this haha!  

The viewings went really well. The houses in Livingstone Road were good, but we didn't quite get 'the feeling' with them if that makes any sense? The first one had a super gloomy downstairs front room, probably because the window is fairly small. The one we saw in the afternoon felt a bit brighter and a bit more spacious as well, and they both are certainly good options, but we weren't as excited as we were about the other two. 

The flat was really lovely, super high ceilings, really bright and just all round wonderful. Mr julicorn would prefer a house in theory, but really liked this flat too. It has had a lot of interest, they had to extend their viewing slots today, and I reckon it'll go for much more than £450k, but it's most definitely worth it. 

The Kingsley Road one was really nice. Super quiet and peaceful, nice living space, and the master bedroom and ensuite are just fabulous. The roads around there are quite steep and I actually broke my ankle round there last year, so there's some completely irrational 'I might fall over' paranoia on my end walking around the area, but no doubt I'll get over that haha! The house really felt like home, although the garden isn't the most usable (again quite steep stairs to the top bit).  

We're considering offering on both. The flat wins hands down on location, but Kingsley Road was such a lovely house and is in a good area as well. Having our bed under the skylight and watching the stars above is a bit of a dream for me, so it definitely gets points for that. 
We'll just have to have a think about what to offer on those two. Kingsley Road has had one offer following the viewings last weekend, which is 'on the lower end of the guide price' (£600-650k). 

South_coast

Ooh, Kingsley Road was my favourite of the houses too 😀!

beanielou

Exciting times 

julicorn

South_coast said:

Ooh, Kingsley Road was my favourite of the houses too 😀!

You have excellent taste clearly - it was super nice