Do bigger houses go up in value quicker?

RelievedSheff

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is very true.

Everyone wants something different from a property. What works for one person absolutely would not work for another.

And that is why we have such a wide and varied range of housing in the UK. 

diystarter7

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

Hi

Excellent response. We had an old victorian house, terraced, massive square double front windws and then a massive single window. The previous owners had knocked two rooms into one and it was a 4 double-bed house. We sold as three and got the price of a four that sold just before ours as most people are comfy with three bedrooms even if the third like in the 1930's houses is a box room.

The number of bedrooms is important to the majority of people that are young and often go for two kids. So it is nice to have big bedrooms as @youngBleEyes said but often in the real world may people have to make compromises unless its a 4 bed house knocked into three and this can be easily turned back to four.

Large bedrooms are ideal but often i the majority of standard 1930's houses the thrid room is very small but a separte room it is and people with children prefer 3 rooms as opposed to 2.

Thaks

lookstraightahead

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is absolutely true but it's generally quite easy to make extra bedrooms if you have the space. My parents house was built in the 1980s. It's a big corner plot with four beds. But it's twice the size of the new 4-beds down the road from her.

Mums 4-bed has the same floor space as my 3-bed cottage.

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lookstraightahead said:

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mi-key said:

lookstraightahead said:

I think if we're talking size we need to be talking about sq ft not how many bedrooms.

Why? if someone needs a 4 bedroom house then it doesnt matter how big a 3 bedroom one is if it doesn't have enough rooms? 

Problem is a lot of "4 bedroom" houses are really 3 bedroom and a cupboard or something. Saw a 2 "double bedroom" flat the other day that wouldn't fit a normal size double bed in either of them.

This is absolutely true. I'm unsure why people don't check floor plans.

The agents either lie or omit measurements in many cases. It's worth taking your own laser measurement tool to confirm sizes. Especially for new builds.

peter3hg

lookstraightahead said:

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is absolutely true but it's generally quite easy to make extra bedrooms if you have the space. My parents house was built in the 1980s. It's a big corner plot with four beds. But it's twice the size of the new 4-beds down the road from her.

Mums 4-bed has the same floor space as my 3-bed cottage.

New builds vary in size as much as old houses.
On the site next to me they are selling 4 beds that range from 1060 sq/ft to 2,030 sq/ft with some 5 beds over 3000 sq/ft 

lookstraightahead

peter3hg said:

lookstraightahead said:

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is absolutely true but it's generally quite easy to make extra bedrooms if you have the space. My parents house was built in the 1980s. It's a big corner plot with four beds. But it's twice the size of the new 4-beds down the road from her.

Mums 4-bed has the same floor space as my 3-bed cottage.

New builds vary in size as much as old houses.
On the site next to me they are selling 4 beds that range from 1060 sq/ft to 2,030 sq/ft with some 5 beds over 3000 sq/ft 

Yes I've seen that too. 

RelievedSheff

peter3hg said:

lookstraightahead said:

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is absolutely true but it's generally quite easy to make extra bedrooms if you have the space. My parents house was built in the 1980s. It's a big corner plot with four beds. But it's twice the size of the new 4-beds down the road from her.

Mums 4-bed has the same floor space as my 3-bed cottage.

New builds vary in size as much as old houses.
On the site next to me they are selling 4 beds that range from 1060 sq/ft to 2,030 sq/ft with some 5 beds over 3000 sq/ft 

Much the same as where we currently live.

Our 3 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft, next doors 4 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft.

You choose which suits you the most.

For us there are only the two of us and the dog with visitors from time to time so the 3 bed made more sense. Next door have a teenage daughter and one of them works from home on a regular basis so the 4 bed made more sense for them even though the bedrooms are smaller.

lookstraightahead

RelievedSheff said:

peter3hg said:

lookstraightahead said:

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is absolutely true but it's generally quite easy to make extra bedrooms if you have the space. My parents house was built in the 1980s. It's a big corner plot with four beds. But it's twice the size of the new 4-beds down the road from her.

Mums 4-bed has the same floor space as my 3-bed cottage.

New builds vary in size as much as old houses.
On the site next to me they are selling 4 beds that range from 1060 sq/ft to 2,030 sq/ft with some 5 beds over 3000 sq/ft 

Much the same as where we currently live.

Our 3 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft, next doors 4 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft.

You choose which suits you the most.

For us there are only the two of us and the dog with visitors from time to time so the 3 bed made more sense. Next door have a teenage daughter and one of them works from home on a regular basis so the 4 bed made more sense for them even though the bedrooms are smaller.

We're they about the same price?

peter3hg

lookstraightahead said:

RelievedSheff said:

peter3hg said:

lookstraightahead said:

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is absolutely true but it's generally quite easy to make extra bedrooms if you have the space. My parents house was built in the 1980s. It's a big corner plot with four beds. But it's twice the size of the new 4-beds down the road from her.

Mums 4-bed has the same floor space as my 3-bed cottage.

New builds vary in size as much as old houses.
On the site next to me they are selling 4 beds that range from 1060 sq/ft to 2,030 sq/ft with some 5 beds over 3000 sq/ft 

Much the same as where we currently live.

Our 3 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft, next doors 4 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft.

You choose which suits you the most.

For us there are only the two of us and the dog with visitors from time to time so the 3 bed made more sense. Next door have a teenage daughter and one of them works from home on a regular basis so the 4 bed made more sense for them even though the bedrooms are smaller.

We're they about the same price?

Here is an example of the same house in 3 and 4 bedroom form, roughly 1,300 sq/ft excluding the garage.
The 3 bed is actually marginally more expensive, probably because it has an extra bathroom.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131323697

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/132306098

lookstraightahead

peter3hg said:

lookstraightahead said:

RelievedSheff said:

peter3hg said:

lookstraightahead said:

silvercar said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

I check floor plans before I look through the photos. It's alright saying this is a 3 bed semi, but I wanna see if it's decent dimensions. I'd sooner have a large-roomed 2 bed than a squidged in 3bed. And as for a 'double bedroom' that will take a double bed but you'd never fit another stick of furniture in with it...

Some people would rather more bedrooms, particularly if they have young children. Better to have each in their own smaller room than share a larger room.

This is absolutely true but it's generally quite easy to make extra bedrooms if you have the space. My parents house was built in the 1980s. It's a big corner plot with four beds. But it's twice the size of the new 4-beds down the road from her.

Mums 4-bed has the same floor space as my 3-bed cottage.

New builds vary in size as much as old houses.
On the site next to me they are selling 4 beds that range from 1060 sq/ft to 2,030 sq/ft with some 5 beds over 3000 sq/ft 

Much the same as where we currently live.

Our 3 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft, next doors 4 bed detached is about 1050sq/ft.

You choose which suits you the most.

For us there are only the two of us and the dog with visitors from time to time so the 3 bed made more sense. Next door have a teenage daughter and one of them works from home on a regular basis so the 4 bed made more sense for them even though the bedrooms are smaller.

We're they about the same price?

Here is an example of the same house in 3 and 4 bedroom form, roughly 1,300 sq/ft excluding the garage.
The 3 bed is actually marginally more expensive, probably because it has an extra bathroom.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/131323697

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/132306098

Yes a great example. That's why footage is important (in my opinion). number of bedrooms doesn't always equate to bigger.

I think a lot of people miss out when they search for 4 bed (or whatever) when it could be cheaper to buy a 3 bed and put a wall and door in if needed.