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End of Terrace or Semi -Detached

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concertplayer · 22/05/2016 22:22

Sorry silly question. Saw a house described as Semi D but actually
it is end of terrace.
I thought SD were 2 houses joined together by one wall.
Is there much difference price wise between them?
Thanks

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WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 22/05/2016 22:23

End of terrace are normally cheaper. But I suppose if you live in an end of terrace it is no different to being in a semi.

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LyndaNotLinda · 22/05/2016 22:28

Well effectively they're the same - you share one wall. But sometimes terraces have a shared loftspace and if you're looking at typical edwardian/victorian housing, terraced houses tend to be smaller than semis.

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PigletJohn · 22/05/2016 23:38

there is a tendency (apart from some quite grand terraces near town centres) for terraced houses to be have been built to a lower standard than semi's.

You may find smaller bedrooms, lower ceilings, simpler joinery, smaller fireplaces, lower windows... lots of little things. The builders/developers were aiming for a different price point.

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SpringSpringSpring · 23/05/2016 09:52

One big advantage to an end terrace is that your neighbour has two neighbors which means that you should be less likely to have noise issues with them - and if you do at least there are two accounts of the noise so it can get dealt with more quickly (bitter experience of anti-social neighbour means I always look at these things!)

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Ughnotagain · 23/05/2016 10:02

Spring I wouldn't count on it. We live in an end back to back terrace (so have two sets of neighbours) and our back neighbour is a noisy inconsiderate arsehole.

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FoxyLoxy123 · 23/05/2016 20:58

We nearly bought an end terrace. I was surprised just how much cheaper they are compared to semis. I thought they were more or less the same, but they aren't.

Some mid terraces have right of way across the end of terrace's garden I found too. Right of way over my garden would be a deal breaker.

I hate all this link detached/semi if it's only joined by a garage thing. I've seen many houses wrongly described I think it's so they're not filtered out.

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