Help with selling a bungalow - advice needed

youth_leader

I've just had a look at the Which survey and see Bamburgh is rated as No 1 - that explains why they have just started allowing dogs at the castle. 

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Alderbank said:

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You know what, that almost ticks all my boxes. Corner plot, hospital, supermarkets, a museum, a library, a beach, a train station. A nature reserve. What more do people want.

Have you ever been to Brid?
Which? magazine's recent (2019) survey ranking Britain’s seaside resorts has said Bridlington is one of the worst in the country, scoring lower than Blackpool.
By contrast other coastal towns on the Yorkshire coast such as Whitby and Filey scored highly.

So what you saying it’s a rough area full of rough people which would violently clash with my gentle and good nature manner?

Well that explains why a 5 bedroom newish detached house sold for 228k two years back. As someone always told me “their is always a reason why houses are cheap”.

If I was to start a new post would you good people spec me a house for a certain budget where I can live with people like myself, would that work?  The thing is I’ll have to postpone such a post because I have locked in my money for another year in savings accounts.

With such a post though I may get the sensitive types on my back again.

 

grumbler

CSI_Yorkshire said:

Sunnyday65 said:

Thanks for the reply youth_leader.    We didn't consider the EPC so we'll have a look at that.     Sorry to hear about the problems selling yours, it is very stressful doing things like this.   

EPC is pretty poor - quick glance says:

Electric room heaters
Less than half low-energy lighting
No wall insulation
Poor hot water cylinder insulation
Old non-condensing boiler
No TRVs

To some people that will mean "we need to spend thousands or bills will be massive".

EPC was done in 2014 though - has nothing been updated since then?

Built around 2000 without wall insulation and TVRs?! That's really hard to believe. And why on earth electric heaters in a relatively new bungalow?
I'm in the market for a bungalow and low EPCs really put me off. My older friends pay £7K p.a. for heating their detached house. They can afford this. I cannot.

Alderbank

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Alderbank said:

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You know what, that almost ticks all my boxes. Corner plot, hospital, supermarkets, a museum, a library, a beach, a train station. A nature reserve. What more do people want.

Have you ever been to Brid?
Which? magazine's recent (2019) survey ranking Britain’s seaside resorts has said Bridlington is one of the worst in the country, scoring lower than Blackpool.
By contrast other coastal towns on the Yorkshire coast such as Whitby and Filey scored highly.

So what you saying it’s a rough area full of rough people which would violently clash with my gentle and good nature manner?

No, I'm not saying that.

I don't need to. Comparison site Crime Rate UK says:

Bridlington is the most dangerous medium-sized town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and is among the top 10 most dangerous overall out of the East Riding of Yorkshire's 171 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Bridlington in 2022 was 107 crimes per 1,000 people.

In November 2022, Bridlington was the worst medium-sized town in the East Riding of Yorkshire for bicycle theft.

In December 2022 Bridlington was the East Riding of Yorkshire's most dangerous medium-sized town for burglary.

Bridlington recorded 34 reports of criminal damage and arson during December 2022, making its crime rate of 0.96 the worst medium-sized town for criminal damage and arson in the East Riding of Yorkshire that month.

The most common crimes in Bridlington are violence and sexual offences

https://crimerate.co.uk/east-riding-of-yorkshire/bridlington#:~:text=Bridlington%20is%20the%20most%20dangerous,107%20crimes%20per%201%2C000%20people.

The Yorkshire coast has nicer places to live than Brid.

youth_leader

When the flat resin roof of this bungalow was blown off in Storm Arwen, as it was apparently 'new' in 2016, I was surprised to find it hadn't been insulated.  It seemed no thicker than a shed roof.  When it was replaced I paid the extra for it to be insulated.

How did you see the detail of the EPC CSI_Yorkshire? 

JGB1955

youth_leader said:

How did you see the detail of the EPC CSI_Yorkshire? 

They're all searchable at Energy performance certificate (EPC) – Find an energy certificate – GOV.UK (find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk).

No mention of electric room heaters as far as I can see....

CSI_Yorkshire

JGB1955 said:

youth_leader said:

How did you see the detail of the EPC CSI_Yorkshire? 

They're all searchable at Energy performance certificate (EPC) – Find an energy certificate – GOV.UK (find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk).

No mention of electric room heaters as far as I can see....

That's the line I was going off.

grumbler said:

CSI_Yorkshire said:

Sunnyday65 said:

Thanks for the reply youth_leader.    We didn't consider the EPC so we'll have a look at that.     Sorry to hear about the problems selling yours, it is very stressful doing things like this.   

EPC is pretty poor - quick glance says:

Electric room heaters
Less than half low-energy lighting
No wall insulation
Poor hot water cylinder insulation
Old non-condensing boiler
No TRVs

To some people that will mean "we need to spend thousands or bills will be massive".

EPC was done in 2014 though - has nothing been updated since then?

Built around 2000 without wall insulation and TVRs?! That's really hard to believe. And why on earth electric heaters in a relatively new bungalow?
I'm in the market for a bungalow and low EPCs really put me off. My older friends pay £7K p.a. for heating their detached house. They can afford this. I cannot.

Yes, I agree, it does seem odd.  Makes me wonder how well the EPC was done.

Even if it's not true, it's something that people might be put off by.

JGB1955

CSI_Yorkshire said:

JGB1955 said:

youth_leader said:

How did you see the detail of the EPC CSI_Yorkshire? 

They're all searchable at Energy performance certificate (EPC) – Find an energy certificate – GOV.UK (find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk).

No mention of electric room heaters as far as I can see....

That's the line I was going off.

Surely N/A means not applicable? I.e. there are NO electric room heaters.

CSI_Yorkshire

JGB1955 said:

CSI_Yorkshire said:

JGB1955 said:

youth_leader said:

How did you see the detail of the EPC CSI_Yorkshire? 

They're all searchable at Energy performance certificate (EPC) – Find an energy certificate – GOV.UK (find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk).

No mention of electric room heaters as far as I can see....

That's the line I was going off.

Surely N/A means not applicable? I.e. there are NO electric room heaters.

Well the line above has N/A next to floor, and I'm pretty sure that those are there.

I don't know whether it means N/A as in they don't exist or N/A as in they don't add to the score.

I'll have a look at mine and see what it says.

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Mine doesn't mention anything like that, so it doesn't really clarify - maybe it's up to the assessor if they list what they didn't see in an N/A category?

user1977

CSI_Yorkshire said:

JGB1955 said:

CSI_Yorkshire said:

JGB1955 said:

youth_leader said:

How did you see the detail of the EPC CSI_Yorkshire? 

They're all searchable at Energy performance certificate (EPC) – Find an energy certificate – GOV.UK (find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk).

No mention of electric room heaters as far as I can see....

That's the line I was going off.

Surely N/A means not applicable? I.e. there are NO electric room heaters.

Well the line above has N/A next to floor, and I'm pretty sure that those are there.

I don't know whether it means N/A as in they don't exist or N/A as in they don't add to the score.

I'll have a look at mine and see what it says.

It's in the column headed "rating", so I guess they just don't affect the scores. But they're certainly all descriptions of features which exist at the property.