Pulling out of out of sale - any advice.

Section62

MultiFuelBurner said:

For the OP not for the doom mongers

If you love the property put together a pros and cons list and also checkout any other properties new to the market with official driveways.

There will always be something later on like annoying neighbours, some building work going on and multiple other things. 

With a small car I would be happy with that and deal with it once moved in. However I would knock something off the price especially if you cannot park nearby or it is permit?

It isn't "doom monger[ing]" to make the point that someone having off-street parking as a 'must have' should be wary of compromising on a property which has an unlawful parking space, especially in London where parking (generally) is highly restricted in terms of availability and who can use it, and where additional legislation has been introduced specially to allow local councils to stop people using unlawful off-street parking.

Advice not to worry about it is poor advice, because it means something which is a 'must have' becomes an 'entirely at the whim of a third party you have no control over'.

The end of a cul-de-sac of a street with terrace-type housing is also possibly the worst possible place to hope to rely on on-street parking, short of buying a property on a London Red Route.

knightstyle

Fine for a Smart car but anything bigger would not be OK and may result in a fine for over hanging the foot path.

MultiFuelBurner

Section62 said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

For the OP not for the doom mongers

If you love the property put together a pros and cons list and also checkout any other properties new to the market with official driveways.

There will always be something later on like annoying neighbours, some building work going on and multiple other things. 

With a small car I would be happy with that and deal with it once moved in. However I would knock something off the price especially if you cannot park nearby or it is permit?

It isn't "doom monger[ing]" to make the point that someone having off-street parking as a 'must have' should be wary of compromising on a property which has an unlawful parking space, especially in London where parking (generally) is highly restricted in terms of availability and who can use it, and where additional legislation has been introduced specially to allow local councils to stop people using unlawful off-street parking.

Advice not to worry about it is poor advice, because it means something which is a 'must have' becomes an 'entirely at the whim of a third party you have no control over'.

The end of a cul-de-sac of a street with terrace-type housing is also possibly the worst possible place to hope to rely on on-street parking, short of buying a property on a London Red Route.

Give it a rest, I qualified everything. It's not bad advice just not your advice

I said make a pros and cons list and if the space becomes unusable what are the other parking arrangements (on street/permit) look for a reduction in price. That's fair advice imo

Don't try and bend every response to match yours. Ridiculous.

It's over to the OP to respond not this constant back and forth. Crazy.

Londonsinglegirl

Thanks for everyone’s comments. The posts here mirror what I am trying to weigh up in my mind. 

I live in North West London and the council (Barnet) are really hot on parking.

I guess the question really is would I even consider it if there was none at all.  Really hard as I love the house and there isn’t much coming up that matches my criteria. I sold last year and back with family whilst searching. Itching to move now although love my family of course! 

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to give me your thoughts and experience. 

MultiFuelBurner

knightstyle said:

Fine for a Smart car but anything bigger would not be OK and may result in a fine for over hanging the foot path.

I reckon it's fiesta length (4m) maybe a bit bigger looking at the Zafira next door 4.5m in length.

OP needs to get their tape measure out

propertyhunter

You're actually in a decent position. No chain and it's a buyer's market - with you probably having sold when the market was more a seller's market. If your heart is still not 100% set on it after weighing up pros and cons, it only means one thing. Another property will come up (even if it seems like few are coming up right now). 

Section62

Londonsinglegirl said:

Thanks for everyone’s comments. The posts here mirror what I am trying to weigh up in my mind. 

I live in North West London and the council (Barnet) are really hot on parking.

I guess the question really is would I even consider it if there was none at all.  Really hard as I love the house and there isn’t much coming up that matches my criteria. I sold last year and back with family whilst searching. Itching to move now although love my family of course! 

Thanks to everyone for taking the time to give me your thoughts and experience. 

In which case I wouldn't contemplate taking MultiFuelBurner's advice to "deal with it once moved in", that really was poor advice.

Contacting the council to ask for a dropped kerb runs the risk of them prohibiting use of the existing space.  So 'dealing with it' really means doing nothing and hoping you get away with parking there, and that you can find a buyer in future who won't be asking for a generous discount on the asking price to reflect the non-parking space.

Not 'doom mongering' - but advice based on dealing with hundreds of cases where someone purchased a property hoping to be able to park in the front garden and found they couldn't.  Many of them in North London.

Barnet has particular problems when it comes to parking and they have become much hotter with enforcement action over recent years.  Brent would be worse though.

The scale of development going on in this area is also putting considerable pressure on on-street parking so there is no guarantee you'll be able to find on-street parking either.  It also looks like that street isn't (yet) in a CPZ, so additional controls on parking should be allowed for.

Only buy this property if you are sure you could live without off-street parking.

arthurdick

I agree with propertyhunter, you are in a very good position at the moment(I'm in the same having sold my house last year) and something  else will turn up.  How would you  feel if you bought that house and a little tiny car to fit on the drive, and one day in the future, the council come along and decide that because you do not have a dropped kerb and you are driving over their pathway, they decide to put a post in the way?.  At the moment  you may be feeling like me that you have to get back on the property ladder before you miss out, and you would regret noy buying it while you had the chance.  What would give you the most regret, missing it or having a post put in place to stop you parking there?

SadieO

Even if it is legal and usable, do you want to commit to only having a small car for the whole time you live there? Also, is there anywhere for your visitors to park? 

I think the safest assumption is to consider this property not to have parking. Would you still want it? 

Stubod

If your gut fel is to walk away from this one, then I would. If you don't it will always be playing on your mind, and others may think the same as you when you come to sell??