Two identical houses - two different sized gardens - price difference?

UnderOffer

My two observations:

1. based on my experience of perusing new build site plans where they indicate each style of house in a different colour, the price of for example a 3 bed semi is identical to all the other similar 3 bed semis, but the rear garden can differ in size depending on location, so they don’t knock a few £k off for a smaller plot. See pic of blue plots 50, 59, 61, 66 all differing garage/garden locations and size but very likely the same price. 
2. I prefer house B on your map. 

ProDave

For me it would be property A.  Not because of garden size, but position on the estate.

Property A the parking and garage is a more conventional alongside the house layout, and is a little off the road so more secluded.  I am always nervous of a vehicle parked on or adjacent to a public road being vunerable to "undesirables" that may walk past.  Property A with it's parking a little off the road makes me less nervous.

But given a choice of others on the estate I would choose neither, I would prefer one with a south or west facing garden.  Both those face east, so for your typical working person, when you come home from work in the evening your garden is in shade.

YoungBlueEyes

cymruchris said:

If there were two identical houses on the same street - same size - same internal layout - same condition - pretty much same everything - but different sized gardens - would the smaller garden have no material impact on the price, a negligable difference or a reasonable difference? The house price is £250k.

Property A

Our situation is almost exactly like this, except we're on a cul-de-sac so the road issue isn't the same. 

The house in the top right of your first pic is like ours - a 60's semi, next door is exactly the same except for the garden. Originally the semis on our road all had a small back yard similar to the concrete/patio (?) area of the top right pic. At the bottom of our gardens is the old school, and in between us and the school was it's allotment, which backed right up tho the yards. Allotment sold off in chunks and our sellers bought their chunk but next door didn't. So they have a yard, we have yard + garden which is at least 3 times the size of the yard. We paid £14k more for our house than neighbour paid for his. We moved in summer before last, he was the Christmas before that (so other than that Truss nonsense it was practically the same time). Ours wasn't on the market long and we had to pay over asking to get it, his was on the market a long while.

markin

Bigger garden means larger conservatory or extension and still with a good garden, Or simply not feeling penned in. 10-20k more.

Dead end road alone would be worth an extra 10-30k to some people.

But personally 90% of new estates feel claustrophobic to me, so it would not be either one.

cymruchris

Some really good points above - thanks for the comments.

Property A (Big garden) is a little crowded with houses around it:



Property B (smaller garden), a little more private - you can see A at the end of the road, you can also just make out that property A has a three storey house behind it overlooking its garden):



And B from the rear with the curved garden (can't get the rear of A as google maps didn't go there)

markin

In the 60s to 80's that corner plot house would have been a lovely big garden for the house next Door.
And where is the house attached to A meant to park a second car that won't block A's drive or the other side?

ProDave

The number of cars parked on pavements demonstrates this estate does not have adequate parking so I would be looking elsewhere.

Think ahead 10 years when most of us are supposed to be driving electric cars.  You can park and charge 1 per house at the moment.  Much shuffling of vehicles of you have 2.

markin

Looking at the wide area pic i can't workout a way that 27, 29, 31, 33 can have a second car.  25 has tarmacked its grass front.

lincroft1710

Having now seen photos of both houses, a song by Pete Seeger comes to mind.

Bonniepurple

cymruchris said:

Some really good points above - thanks for the comments.

Property A (Big garden) is a little crowded with houses around it:



Property B (smaller garden), a little more private - you can see A at the end of the road, you can also just make out that property A has a three storey house behind it overlooking its garden):



And B from the rear with the curved garden (can't get the rear of A as google maps didn't go there)

What’s quite sad from my point of view is that it looks virtually identical to a new build that’s going on near me.  There’s no individuality, no attempt to make it fit in with the local area.  Yes, some will be made with Cotswold stone, but a) those are the pricier ones and b) the typical honey coloured Cotswold stone isn’t what the local buildings look like.  Diesel and soot covered is perhaps a truer (although less attractive) colour!