My partner thinks I am being unreasonable in our house search. We found a lovely house a few months back but both mutually agreed that there was a few things that didn't sit right with us with the property. We decided to expand our search further and found an area we adore.
On research it seems the area is high in radon. 10-30% apparently. The neighbouring area, which we also love, is 30%. On more research we both found we grew up in a 5-10% radon area, but apparently minimal radon protection is required for those levels.
It's not only the radon that's worrying me about the property we like either, it's also been sat on the market for up to two years. It's been listed with 3-4 different agents and I can't understand why. It is beautiful and needs no work. The seller said she thinks the house is struggling to sell as people will feel isolated in the area but that is not the case. The area is semi rural but clearly not isolating and other houses in the area are selling fast. It's a 5 year old property and the estate agent said new builds aren't selling. But new builds in the area are. I'm wondering if radon is putting people off? But also it seems the area is full of farm houses or very large 4-5 bed houses, or 2-3 bed cottages. The property we like is a small 4 bed and they seem few and far between in the whole area, so perhaps that's why? As for not much more money people can buy a larger 4 bed? Also there's only about 3 of these houses been built on the same estate so we know our chance of a 4 bed in the area within our price bracket will be slim if we walk away from this house.
Partner and I both agreed we can compromise on the size to live in the area. But partner thinks I am being unreasonable to potentially walk away from another house we like based on the radon percentage and the fear of the length of time the property has sat on the market.
What would you do? Am I being unreasonable? Do you live in a radon area and if so do you do anything to take precautions?
I'll add I've never been like this in a house search before. We're totally relocating and I think that is causing me to question everything and look so deep.