Do bigger houses go up in value quicker?

badger09

On a new build estate, plot position & garden size can also influence price of otherwise identical or similar sized properties. 

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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.

That's only 97.5m2. The government's absolute minimum recommended size for a 4 bedroom 2 story property is 97m2, but that's for a micro house. In other European countries it is below the minimum legal limit, and well below the typical size.

It's slightly better for a 3 bedroom house, depending on the layout and available storage space, but still very small.

Houses that small should not be built. The legal minimum should be at least 110m2. That's for a detached house, for a semi or terrace it needs to be a bit bigger to allow for reasonable sound isolation between dwellings.

mi-key

That's only 97.5m2. The government's absolute minimum recommended size for a 4 bedroom 2 story property is 97m2, but that's for a micro house. In other European countries it is below the minimum legal limit, and well below the typical size.

It's slightly better for a 3 bedroom house, depending on the layout and available storage space, but still very small.

Houses that small should not be built. The legal minimum should be at least 110m2. That's for a detached house, for a semi or terrace it needs to be a bit bigger to allow for reasonable sound isolation between dwellings.

Why? a lot can depend on the layout, and if 97m2 suits the people living there then there is no problem. House size makes no difference to sound isolation for terraced or semis it depends where the sound is generated.

gazfocus

You’ve all brought up something I’d not really
thought about before. 

The house we are selling (a 4 bed detached) is 515sqft upstairs whereas the house we are buying (a 3 bed semi) is 500sqft, so not a whole lot different. However, the difference in layout has resulted in the 4 bed house having an en-suite and a fourth bedroom with that 15sqft extra. 

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mi-key said:

That's only 97.5m2. The government's absolute minimum recommended size for a 4 bedroom 2 story property is 97m2, but that's for a micro house. In other European countries it is below the minimum legal limit, and well below the typical size.

It's slightly better for a 3 bedroom house, depending on the layout and available storage space, but still very small.

Houses that small should not be built. The legal minimum should be at least 110m2. That's for a detached house, for a semi or terrace it needs to be a bit bigger to allow for reasonable sound isolation between dwellings.

Why? a lot can depend on the layout, and if 97m2 suits the people living there then there is no problem. House size makes no difference to sound isolation for terraced or semis it depends where the sound is generated.

We shouldn't be building houses that small. Houses in the UK last for centuries, barring wars. They need to be built with that in mind.

Small houses just lower the minimum space people can afford. If developers were required to build larger homes they would charge the same for them.

gazfocus

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mi-key said:

That's only 97.5m2. The government's absolute minimum recommended size for a 4 bedroom 2 story property is 97m2, but that's for a micro house. In other European countries it is below the minimum legal limit, and well below the typical size.

It's slightly better for a 3 bedroom house, depending on the layout and available storage space, but still very small.

Houses that small should not be built. The legal minimum should be at least 110m2. That's for a detached house, for a semi or terrace it needs to be a bit bigger to allow for reasonable sound isolation between dwellings.

Why? a lot can depend on the layout, and if 97m2 suits the people living there then there is no problem. House size makes no difference to sound isolation for terraced or semis it depends where the sound is generated.

We shouldn't be building houses that small. Houses in the UK last for centuries, barring wars. They need to be built with that in mind.

Small houses just lower the minimum space people can afford. If developers were required to build larger homes they would charge the same for them.

It’s no different to the fact that houses are built with barely a garden nowadays. It’s pure greed by the developers, trying to squeeze as many houses onto the plot of land as possible. That’s the main reason I’d never buy a ‘new’ house.

mi-key

It’s no different to the fact that houses are built with barely a garden nowadays. It’s pure greed by the developers, trying to squeeze as many houses onto the plot of land as possible. That’s the main reason I’d never buy a ‘new’ house.

I do agree with that point. I would never buy a new build house as you get so much more space and garden for your money. It does make me laugh when you see these estates of 'executive' new builds at huge prices, and they have tiny little gardens and all the houses are crammed in together.

I had to visit someone on a new build estate recently. These were all 3 and 4 bed detatched, and reasonable size houses ( and by no means a cheap estate ), but they were so crammed in, and the plots so small there was only room for one car on each driveway, so the whole street was full of everyones second cars and the closest I could park was nearly 100 metres away

peter3hg

In many cases it is the councils who push the density because they have housing targets to meet so want the maximum from the small number of sites they have available for development.
Often it would be more profitable for the developers to build a smaller number of bigger houses on bigger plots because the profit margins on those are much better than smaller houses.


I live in a new build and I would describe the garden as an ok size. It is about 45ft long and 50ft wide. While not massive by any means, it is bigger than the gardens in most of the 60s, 70s and 80s era houses I looked at around the same price. 50s and earlier were mostly bigger.

The plot size for the house also is reasonable for a semi compared to others in the price range. There is a 22ft long front garden, tandem drive down the side of the house that would fit four cars at a push and a roughly 20ft by 10ft detached garage that can easily fit a normal sized car.