Question regarding house type

Dinah93

caracal_77 wrote: »

Thanks for the replies. where do they take this information from? the land registry? if so, who updates the LR? the developer? council?

Also, some insurance companies told me they refer to "end terraced" as "semi-detached", which makes things a bit more confusing...

Just wondering if I should do something about this or not, if I can do something or not, and why this is happening to begin with (same type houses should show as the same type online/LR).

I'm a planning officer, the regulations are the same for any house built in that style regardless of location. I have had several applications on 3house terrace extensions, and they are seen as terraces in legal terms.

Geenie

silvercar wrote: »

Posh houses round our way are called linked detached.

My friends house changed from being detached to linked detached when she allowed next door to build a garage in the space between them and connect it to her side wall. I don't think she realised at the time she would loose her detached status and was a bit miffed about it afterwards.

iyiarz

The end ones are normally refered to as 'End of Terrace', but you can't be a Semi if there's more that 2 houses in a block.

seven-day-weekend

Don't know whether there is a formal definition, but for Planning Permission purposes, an end of terrace is classed as terrraced.

gocat

Geenie wrote: »

My friends house changed from being detached to linked detached when she allowed next door to build a garage in the space between them and connect it to her side wall. I don't think she realised at the time she would loose her detached status and was a bit miffed about it afterwards.

Houses in my street are often advertised as detached even though there is a garage inbetween each house linking them. Mine is at the end of a row of about 10 houses eg. house garage house garage and so on till the end. Would mine be end linked detached :rolleyes:

Jorgan_2

poppysarah wrote: »

Do you know what a quasi semi is?

I've seen houses listed at this but can't work it out.

Thats easy, a quasi semi is used to describe a block of four, back to back houses. See said it was easy.

The four houses are usually one bedroom starter homes, with the four making up a quarter of a block, each property will have another property to one side and another property either to the front or rear. Does that make sense?

Doozergirl

I think the definition is registered with the Land Registry by the solicitor who must rely on the estate agent or salesperson's definition (or is it perhaps even in the Sellers Property Information Form? I can't quite remember if I've had to circle property type or whether it's just for insurance purposes).

Whatever, it is certainly logged by someone who isn't perhaps qualified to know exactly what defines a semi from an end of terrace. It's just for information's sake AFAIK and doesn't make a jot of difference to anything except perhaps the sale price figures for different property types at the LR.

Jorgan_2

gocat wrote: »

Houses in my street are often advertised as detached even though there is a garage inbetween each house linking them. Mine is at the end of a row of about 10 houses eg. house garage house garage and so on till the end. Would mine be end linked detached :rolleyes:

Years ago Bryant built a house called 'The Datchet', and got away with calling it link detached, i don't know how as apart from the two on either end, they looked like terraced properties to me.

bryanb

Jorgan wrote: »

Thats easy, a quasi semi is used to describe a block of four, back to back houses. See said it was easy.

The four houses are usually one bedroom starter homes, with the four making up a quarter of a block, each property will have another property to one side and another property either to the front or rear. Does that make sense?

These are called "cluster homes" round here.

PasturesNew

Call them what you like. They're all too small and overpriced!