Obviously.Originally Posted by SvN
Obviously.
I can't find it on Rightmove
This isn't England. Online estate agents have no place up here. Purple Bricks has failed miserably and Right Move nobody looks on.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property...pes=&keywords=
I think I've figured out why you haven't had any viewings.
Do you think people still look in the newspaper for their next house?
Christ. I need to move.
It is Dundee though...
5 miles.
DD5 1/2/3 is the most expensive postcode and is very exclusive. The radius is about 2 miles. So having changed the search to reflect that, please show me a bigger, better presented house than mine?
I think you completely missed my point. You're not getting viewings because noone can find your house, as it's not listed on the website that every under the age of 70 uses to search for houses.
Like I said SvN, if you want to sell a house in Tayside you go on TSPC. In Scotland the market is different.
Yes SvN, Magic knows best. His record viewings speak for themselves.
If you are desperate, I'll trade you for eight random PS2 games and a half eaten cheese and branston pickle sandwich.
Let me check how much we've got left in the TTH fund.
I’ve never heard of anyone not using Rightmove.
Rightmove isn't that popular in Northern Ireland either. Propertypal is the most popular here and I don't think it covers many other areas.
But why not have it on Rightmove? Your EA should be putting it on there, it will cost them like Ł100 but it should be standard practice.
There are enough houses on Rightmove to suggest you're wrong. But I suppose your viewings speak for themselves...
& Zoopla.
I'm a twit
That house I saw tonight was really lovely. It was pretty much as nice as in the pictures. Only thing is though, the street's pretty narrow and there are cars parked all along both sides. It seems like it'd be a nightmare trying to get parked in front of your own house and getting in/out of the street as well as only one car can go down it at a time but traffic can go both ways.
That would genuinely put me off even considering it.
I'm a twit
Depends on your budget doesn't it. If you can afford to tick both location and property, then do, but if you have to compromise then I'd do it on location (within reason).
Exactly. It's very unlikely you'll be able to tick every single box unless you're spending high 6 figures. It's usually a case of compromising things you care less about.
Parking would be more important to me than nearly everything else.
'Fiercely protected' doesn't sound like an area I'd want to live in.
The apartment I am moving to next month has two garages.
It's what's bugging me the most about our potential new place.
No parking on site so I have to pay Ł84 a year to park 5 minutes walk away.
Ah, my enz. Which bits you looking at? Leam and the surrounding area is nice, move there.
Parking is the one slight unknown at the place I'm buying. It's down a sort of side street which doesn't lead anywhere except to these properties, and there is on and off street parking space, but it isn't 'allocated' - so am I to assume then that every cunt will just park outside my place even though there is no real reason to do so?
I think it'll probably be alright but there is no arena of life where people are bigger cunts than the parking arena.
Can you filter by religion on that?
Parking has never been a problem for me. That does not bother me. Its a home with a bathtub. New homes made for one person are only having showers fitted. Saving space I guess. Fuck off.
Leamington, Warwick, Stratford, Solihull are the main areas. We've dismissed quite a few villages around Leamington because they're just too small. We found a house we loved in Southam, but then went to have lunch in the town centre and it was just absolutely dead.
Stratford is amazing. Move there.
We're struggling to find anywhere suitable in our budget, unfortunately. We'd need an extra 50-70k to be able to get what we want.
The only things we can afford are in awful new build estates a couple of miles outside of the actual town.
Is it just me or do new builds all seem very cramped and small for the money? I suppose it's developers maximising their profits but they're shite.
Yep they really are. They all have a "lounge/diner" or "kitchen/diner" so you end up losing a room.
Funny you say that, In the last few years I've converted so many houses to have a kitchen/diner rather than separate rooms. It was also the first Inside job at my own house.
If I was going to buy a new build to live in for a long time I'd want a big kitchen /diner rather than two rooms.
We have a lounge/diner too, but they started off as separate rooms. The problem with the new builds is that you don't get anywhere near as much space as you would if you converted two rooms. Instead you get a single room that's slightly bigger than a normal lounge.
The payoff you get with new builds is that they were't built by some long dead shark in 1965.
No, they're just built by 21st century sharks.
At least the ones of days gone by used actual cement and mortar to hold things together, and didn't try to keep the land the house is built on for a permanent ground rent.
Wouldn't your settee end up absorbing all of your cooking smells/moisture over time in a 'lounge/diner'? They're the second most stupid thing in contemporary [posh] houses, after balconies overlooking your own garden.
Only if you cook your meals in your dining room.
I suppose it depends on the size. You see flats with them and you wonder where it all goes.
The living space in our first flat was essentially a single room with a kitchen at one end and the dining table squeezed next to the sofa. The biggest problem was the noise from the washing machine.
Our old flat was an open plan new build and it was much better. Everything being separate is just irritating.
A dining room is a huge waste of space, we’ve got kitchen/diner/living space at the back of the house then a front living room separate.
If you've still got the extra space but just knocked down the wall then that's great.
Yeah, open plan is good but 'open plan' in the sense of new builds where it's a kitchen that they've stuck a tiny table into the corner of and you have less space is shit.
In fairness they're all just about the most expensive bits of Warks/WMids you could have picked.
What kind of place you looking for, big house? Leamington proper has plenty of lovely Regency houses/flats with super modern yuppie interiors. Probably couldn't afford more than an apartment at your budget, though.
The villages/small towns like Southam etc are ALL dead around here as well, mate. You'll be lucky to get a pub and a post office. Lutterworth is alright? It's a bit more Leicester way, but it has about 5 pubs, a couple of half decent restaurants and is right by the M1 and a stones throw from the M6.
Rugby is worth considering as well. Property here is cheap, there's loads of good pubs and restaurants (and this is something that's constantly improving), and it's incredibly well connected. I can get from my front door to London Euston in less than 90 minutes. There's loads of soulless newbuild estates popping up all the time, but the centre and surrounding parts have some really lovely old Victorian and Edwardian houses.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property...-82611539.html
I mean look at how cute this is, and it's right by the big nice park in the town centre. Corner shop 30 seconds away with an excellent selection of sandwiches too.
@SvN
Market Harborough is great as well, thriving town centre, loads of good shops, but it's probably quite expensive there and it's quite a bit more East than the other places you're looking at
Rugby is too far for me to travel to work every day, unfortunately. I did consider it, but one of the reasons we're moving is so I can be in the office every day - so I'm only really considering areas that allow me to do door to door within the hour, and have the option of getting the train if I want. This rules out quite a lot of areas, which is why we ended up with the areas selected, and ruled out all of the nice villages around Leamington.
We considered Coventry until we spent 5 minutes driving around there.
We've lived in the city centres of Birmingham and Southampton for the last 12 years, so we're not quite ready to move to a tiny village with a pub and post office. That's why the areas mentioned appeal, they're all fairly lively as long as we can live within walking distance of the town centre.
Never consider Coventry. Never.
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