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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Doctor Gollum on 04 June 2013, 09:37:38
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Just browsing the area on right move. What a pita finding a house with a usable Double garage! :-\
Alot have been converted into rooms or partly blocked off for storage space.
What would you look for in your next house/location...?
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What would you look for in your next house/location...?
Sun in the back garden during the summer after 5 pm :'(
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Built a deck at the bottom of the garden for exactly that reason, as the sun moves round the side of the house.
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What would you look for in your next house/location...?
Sun in the back garden during the summer after 5 pm :'(
With you on that one Andy...
Lovely sat outside early morning, but then the sun creeps further up the garden, then next doors house gets in the way >:(
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Built a deck at the bottom of the garden for exactly that reason, as the sun moves round the side of the house.
Ours is completely in the shade by around 5pm :'( ..... you could sit in the sun in the front garden on full view of the street if you wanted to. ???
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Built a deck at the bottom of the garden for exactly that reason, as the sun moves round the side of the house.
Ours is completely in the shade by around 5pm :'( ..... you could sit in the sun in the front garden on full view of the street if you wanted to. ???
Our front is open plan...but swmbo does sit out there on full view and 'toasts'
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This is prompted by another house of the same layout selling for about 50k more than we has been told ours was worth.
We knew the valuation was wrong, but 50k....? :o
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What would you look for in your next house/location...?
Sun in the back garden during the summer after 5 pm :'(
+1 we have a lovely garden but lose the sun at about the same time :'(
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I'd want a quiet location but amenities reasonably close by, a drive for 3/4 cars and a garage to work on them :y
Oh an a good loft for the train layout! :y
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Double garage was top of my list. :y
Managed to tick all the other boxes in the process too. An astroturf garden would have been nice, though. ::)
Any man who comes under pressure to convert his garage to a guest bedroom needs to grow a pair and regain control of the household trousers. FFS! ::)
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Double garage was top of my list. :y
Managed to tick all the other boxes in the process too. An astroturf garden would have been nice, though. ::)
Any man who comes under pressure to convert his garage to a guest bedroom needs to grow a pair and regain control of the household trousers. FFS! ::)
BMW owners Kev. No need for a garage most of em. Oh rather SIGH..... ;D
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Double garage was top of my list. :y
Managed to tick all the other boxes in the process too. An astroturf garden would have been nice, though. ::)
Any man who comes under pressure to convert his garage to a guest bedroom needs to grow a pair and regain control of the household trousers. FFS! ::)
BMW owners Kev. No need for a garage most of em. Oh rather SIGH..... ;D
:P
You're right though, looking around for properties with garages in my (our) area seems to mean you jump from 'regular person' money to 'mega rich' money as all the 'regular person' houses have turned the garages into rooms, and that's before you go looking for double garages that are rare as rocking horse dung :(
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Double garage was top of my list. :y
I found a house with enough room for a triple garage, then bought three 20' "link container" buildings from the bay. - can't get a car in, but insulated, lights, a water boiler + sink+ radiators, windows...
Best 2K I ever spent.
An astroturf garden would have been nice, though. ::)
I told my wife I want some emograss. [1]
[1] it cuts itself :D
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Just browsing the area on right move. What a pita finding a house with a usable Double garage! :-\
Alot have been converted into rooms or partly blocked off for storage space.
What would you look for in your next house/location...?
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It wouldn't be on the side of a mountain again............ >:(
I've half an acre up at the back of the garden that I cant get a machine or vehicle onto ,come to think of it I haven't walked on it for three years .
I built a large double garage but would build an even bigger outbuilding on that land if I could .
It'd be flat land for me..... :)
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Thera a few out past Tadley towards Newbury way. But that's a commutes passed the three worst junctions on the m4 this side if the m25.
Currently looking Crowthorne/Sandhurst way. A few but don't like the house that comes with it. :(
Hot to be well away from Flood plane too. :-\
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Ive got room for a garage like twiglets ::)
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Should also add, its far better searching local Estate agents(Spit) sites than using Right move directly.
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Thera a few out past Tadley towards Newbury way. But that's a commutes passed the three worst junctions on the m4 this side if the m25.
Currently looking Crowthorne/Sandhurst way. A few but don't like the house that comes with it. :(
Hot to be well away from Flood plane too. :-\
I hear Reading's nice. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26795734/Smilies/allrun.gif)
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Thera a few out past Tadley towards Newbury way. But that's a commutes passed the three worst junctions on the m4 this side if the m25.
Currently looking Crowthorne/Sandhurst way. A few but don't like the house that comes with it. :(
Hot to be well away from Flood plane too. :-\
I hear Reading's nice. (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26795734/Smilies/allrun.gif)
Hmmm Alton might be worth a look. :)
(That way I can pester that Wood fellow to fix stuff every 2 seconds ;D. )
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Just browsing the area on right move. What a pita finding a house with a usable Double garage! :-\
Alot have been converted into rooms or partly blocked off for storage space.
What would you look for in your next house/location...?
One where the previous muppet hadn't set the fence alight while burning garden waste :D :D :D
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my house has sun in the garden all day every day so thats summer gone then
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looking at new houses myself, I want a single garage, even that is a struggle. As you say lots have been converted into rooms, having to discount a lot due to no garage. Often no space to buy one either.
You might like this Chris, single AND double garage:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27078039.html (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27078039.html)
Quite tempted by that myself, but not in the right position at the moment to make an offer :(
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I wouldn't want to move to Ash Vale.. unless I had a thing for men in uniform.
Might work for Chris, I suppose? ;D
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Being near a motorway, and under the flight path to Heathrow, I wouldn't go looking to move close to a Railway line.
But yes that's the sort of thing. :)
4 beds though. Oh and detached. ...with on suite bathroom. In fact, make the garage on suite as well. ;D
Think we're going to be staying put for a while. ::)
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The only thing I would want is a double garage....having said that, I have access to a pretty large shed 24-7!
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Being near a motorway, and under the flight path to Heathrow, I wouldn't go looking to move close to a Railway line.
But yes that's the sort of thing. :)
4 beds though. Oh and detached. ...with on suite bathroom. In fact, make the garage on suite as well. ;D
Think we're going to be staying put for a while. ::)
I live near the Paddington line currently, if all trains were electric would not bother me as they are practically silent.
Due to my budget I'm looking at Camberley/Ash/Farnborough myself, as we need rail link and decent motorway access.
Ohh a good garden too, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms ideally. :)
Like Camberley, but what we want is usually outside our budget :(
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Being near a motorway, and under the flight path to Heathrow, I wouldn't go looking to move close to a Railway line.
But yes that's the sort of thing. :)
4 beds though. Oh and detached. ...with on suite bathroom. In fact, make the garage on suite as well. ;D
Think we're going to be staying put for a while. ::)
I know that area quite well and I think the biggest cause for concern would be the A331. I don't think it'd be as bad as it might look on the map noise-wise. The line through North Camp runs quite a few DMUs, but it's a fair way away. The problem is, in that area, finding something away from all major roads and railways is a tall order, and adding an en-suite and another bedroom on top of that is going to push you north of 400k, hence I moved a little further afield (and I'm glad I did, as I'm in a much quieter neck of the woods but still pretty well connected).
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Given our budget, it does indeed look like £400k plus to stay the same distance from London and Slough. Nearer London, no chance of a dg and loose a bedroom for the same money. No point going there.
Could get what we want out towards Newbury but that adds an hour to my journey home. And on a 12 hour shift, that's an important hour. 1/2 hour going in as well I expect. :(
Land to build a garage would be ok. Probably needs to be much more rural in that case though.
The odd property with outbuilding foes pop up. Trouble is the house usually looks like there bodies berried under the patio. :-\
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I wouldn't want to move to Ash Vale.. unless I had a thing for men in uniform.
Might work for Chris, I suppose? ;D
As a child I lived in Ash and hate both Ash and Ash Vale as there is no community spirit.
Sandhurst is a great community and I've never had any regrets moving here. Central Sandhurst and Little Sandhurst are much better than Owlsmoor and College Town. Houses with double garages tend to be big and expensive!
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Double garage in Sandhurst /College Green area is about £460,000 to £500,000. My son has one there and his is one of the very few where garage not converted to additional room. Having said that no car has ever been in the garage as it is full of gym gear, punch bag (nit his missus btw) and golf clubs.
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Being near a motorway, and under the flight path to Heathrow, I wouldn't go looking to move close to a Railway line.
But yes that's the sort of thing. :)
4 beds though. Oh and detached. ...with on suite bathroom. In fact, make the garage on suite as well. ;D
Think we're going to be staying put for a while. ::)
I live near the Paddington line currently, if all trains were electric would not bother me as they are practically silent.
Due to my budget I'm looking at Camberley/Ash/Farnborough myself, as we need rail link and decent motorway access.
Ohh a good garden too, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms ideally. :)
Like Camberley, but what we want is usually outside our budget :(
My daughter is in Farnborough - Victorian terraced in decent area about £240,000 for 2 beds and £280 ish for 3 beds. Up near Silesian College/Reading Road is not a bad area at all.
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Wold be good to see you closer by Chris, it looks like I am going to be saying the area. The job front has become very interesting and the previous cert has now become second place. I'll be looking for somewhere in Farnborough or Guildford close to where I can find some office premises :y
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You could always unconvert the extra bedroom! :)
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Can't help here either,average price on my estate for a 4 bed house with double garage £400k+ but most are closer to £500k-£600k,and yes our double garage is a granny annexe and that's why I don't work on my cars outside...to frigging cold and wet,and when the sun shines you get roasted alive.....no pleasing me ???
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With prices like that darn sarf, I'm glad I live up in't grim North. you could buy a very very nice house up here for £400k
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Have certainly looked at a move north but the houses in Daz's road dont come up very often,would save me a fortune in fuel, ::)Also we keep looking at a move to Spain or Cyprus but with their enconomies struggling were not sure when it will happen if at all :'(
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Equity value is way higher down here though. A purchase, say 30 years ago, will yealed almost twice as much cash as oop North.
Gives a much larger sum if you downgrade when you retire, or whatever. :y
E.g.
A 4bed detached house in South west London suberbs, 35 years ago cost £3,500. Today, £750,000. That house would yield £250k less up there I guess....?
But all thingaps are relative, as they say. :)
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Don't forget Chris they're starting to build the first of 2 thousand houses 1/2 mile from me,butting up to the A329M...and as the corrupt Reading council have said they are going to be 'affordable' oink! oink! NOT!! ::)
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Equity value is way higher down here though. A purchase, say 30 years ago, will yealed almost twice as much cash as oop North.
Gives a much larger sum if you downgrade when you retire, or whatever. :y
E.g.
A 4bed detached house in South west London suberbs, 35 years ago cost £3,500. Today, £750,000. That house would yield £250k less up there I guess....?
But all thingaps are relative, as they say. :)
You can get yourself a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom detached house with double garage and still have change from £250K in Cornwall ::) http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=24116517&sale=48805127&country=england (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=24116517&sale=48805127&country=england)
(http://media.rightmove.co.uk/1k/702/24116517/702_CAL120209_IMG_00_0001.JPG)
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Currently looking Crowthorne/Sandhurst way. A few but don't like the house that comes with it. :(
You moving next to Roger Budden then? ;D
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Hmm,looking at that price,think I might sell this house and buy that one then pocket the difference which would be about the same again,then move and don't leave a forwarding address so the kids can't get their hands on my newly aquired pension fund...might leave them the Omegas as I will be driving a Dodge Viper down in Cornwall :y
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Currently looking Crowthorne/Sandhurst way. A few but don't like the house that comes with it. :(
You moving next to Roger Budden then? ;D
You know what, I was thinking to myself, this road looks familiar.... ;D
....and blow me there was his house. All sorts of boats and jet skis and and cars in the drive.
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Equity value is way higher down here though. A purchase, say 30 years ago, will yealed almost twice as much cash as oop North.
Gives a much larger sum if you downgrade when you retire, or whatever. :y
E.g.
A 4bed detached house in South west London suberbs, 35 years ago cost £3,500. Today, £750,000. That house would yield £250k less up there I guess....?
But all thingaps are relative, as they say. :)
You can get yourself a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom detached house with double garage and still have change from £250K in Cornwall ::) http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=24116517&sale=48805127&country=england (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=24116517&sale=48805127&country=england)
(http://media.rightmove.co.uk/1k/702/24116517/702_CAL120209_IMG_00_0001.JPG)
That's interesting. Bit of a commute, but I mean the interior. No clutter, at all. Like its been done up to sell. Minimal ornaments. Precisely placed vases etc, like a new build show home. But a very well established garden. ...?
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I want the house 2 doors down, which has just sold again.
But the asking price was more than I would be prepared to pay, just to gain a double garage.
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I want the house 2 doors down, which has just sold again.
But the asking price was more than I would be prepared to pay, just to gain a double garage.
Yes you mentioned that before iirc. But as all things are relative, if yours is worth more than you thought, it may not be so expensive after all. If yours is worth more than you thought of course.
Otherwise, tend to agree. It ain't cheap.
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My advice on buying "expensive" property - if you're married don't fall out and get divorced!!
I got divorced back in 1986 and lived locally in a nice 3 story 5 bed detached farm house, 3 bathrooms and very large living area (had a full size snooker table in the hall), 6 seater Inglenook in the lounge etc etc, together with detached brick built 4 car garaging, with parking for 5 cars + horsebox. All in 5 acres, with brick built stabling, hay barn, 1/2 acre orchard with 30 apple trees, 5 plum trees. Had to sell when I divorced :(
Up for sale recently - £700K - wish I still lived there. But thats life I guess
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I want the house 2 doors down, which has just sold again.
But the asking price was more than I would be prepared to pay, just to gain a double garage.
Should'a put in a cheeky offer TB! ;)
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Don't forget Chris they're starting to build the first of 2 thousand houses 1/2 mile from me,butting up to the A329M...and as the corrupt Reading council have said they are going to be 'affordable' oink! oink! NOT!! ::)
Yes I've seen the adverts and stuff in the agents windows. Utter rubbish. I won't do another New build anyway, but that aside, they all seem to be so crammed in. Front doors not 5 feet from the pavement, and those with a garage barely have enough room to get a good size car on the drive, be able to open the garage door, and not have the boot blocking the pavement so pedestrians have to step into the road.
My journey home sees the traffic backed all the way up downshire way/329m to the motorway slip roads. All because of that stupid junction they put in to service that new development.
Which is a good point. That makes access to Crowthorne and Sandhurst area from Bracknell a nightmare that will only get worse. :(
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What about Farnborough?
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Mrs. KW's aunt has this for sale at the moment:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37137205.html (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37137205.html)
Needs a bit of work, TBH, but 4 bedrooms with en-suite, in a nice area. Double garage and car port.
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For a Semi that looks pretty nice :y
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For a Semi that looks pretty nice :y
I'd say it suffers a little from having most of its' room upstairs, due to the fact that it's extended over the car port. A study downstairs and perhaps a larger kitchen would be nice. That said, the bedrooms are all a decent size, not the "2 bedrooms plus 2 cupboards" you get with a lot of modern 4 bedroom houses. If you can use one of the bedrooms as a study / man cave then it'd be fine.
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My place suffers from that bedroom syndrome a little - the 'fourth bedroom' is suitable for a cot or a desk and not much more while the middle room isn't much better (a single bed is about the most you'd fit in there)..
If I could find something like that place that was detached and within my price range.. oh and the garage should either have a pit already or enough headroom for a lift.
Not asking much, I know.. ;D
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My place suffers from that bedroom syndrome a little - the 'fourth bedroom' is suitable for a cot or a desk and not much more while the middle room isn't much better (a single bed is about the most you'd fit in there)..
If I could find something like that place that was detached and within my price range.. oh and the garage should either have a pit already or enough headroom for a lift.
Not asking much, I know.. ;D
.. but you've just built a garage with a pit, and you need to focus on getting that snake on the road before the summer's over... ::)
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Mrs. KW's aunt has this for sale at the moment:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37137205.html (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37137205.html)
Needs a bit of work, TBH, but 4 bedrooms with en-suite, in a nice area. Double garage and car port.
Ooh that ticks some boxes. I'll show H. We'd have cash left over too. Although we've just gone through the pain of fitting a new kitchen. Well I say just, must be 6 years ago now. Guess I better finish it off. ;D
Commute would be doubled though, and I know she won't like the bed rooms over the car port as we have both had bedroom over garages as kids, and they are a bugger to keep warm.
I really like the car port though. Hmm.
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Bedroom size is an issue where we are. We spent almost a year looking for a house with decent size bedrooms. So relatively speaking our bedrooms are quite big, bit still small IMO.
This also makes finding another house better than the one we have, but with the extra features very difficult.
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.. but you've just built a garage with a pit, and you need to focus on getting that snake on the road before the summer's over... ::)
You mean summer 2020, right? :-[
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More pictures of garages and car pits please !! Never mind the bedrooms ::) ;D ;D