to ask what your search radius would be

[salvatoresandwich]

When buying a house? The reason I am asking is that our home is on the market and our estate agents have told me that there are other 4 beds near to us for £10000 less. How near would you consider near when looking at homes for sale?

ho0w long is a piece of string?

a 4 bed from me would take me into shit hole less salubrious area in one direction, and 4 miles the other way would take me into the realms of lottery wins.

Have they told you that because they think your place is overpriced?

need to consider post codes and catchment areas, not distance from an arbitrary point.

well... how near are they?

right now i am looking for a house in a very specific area, but i guess anything within half a mile of my pinpointed spot would be good

The area is neither good or bad. It does have the plus of a fantastic comp. The house is in 1850's stone detached cottage so lots of character. I have looked on right move for houses £10,000 less than ours which are 4 bed although there are none in our school catchment there are some in other districts. Am sooo confused lol.

As Jumping says it's string territory!
Depends - city, suburbia, town, village or rural - are all going to be very different. I've been looking in a 30min drive radius of my DH's possible new job. Which is a seriously big area but bits of it are crap (so are automatically out) and bits too expensive. I'm looking at the same kind of house but there's a huge variation in prices as it depends on other stuff not just bedroom numbers - garden, parking, living & kitchen space, layout, bathrooms, new verses period property. Room sizes etc.
For example 4bed houses in a 3mile radius (it won't do 4) of here :
£1million + www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/15036474?search_identifier=SI9T3W9a1xu0vhMMlXtR1A
Or just under £60k
www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/17120706?search_identifier=7waOI8Ye+P4K3Rhkt0b3FQ

It also depends on what your price range is.

One road, houses could range from 750K - 1.5mil. 100K would be small fry to people like that. It's in a completely crap secondary school are a as well!

It depends on how well people know an area. When we first moved to our current city we considered anything north side, so probably about 6 miles radius, now we know the area if we were to move, we probably have more specific requirements as in down to particular streets or estates.

I do 1 mile from the school postcode

You could have two identical 4-bed houses, 50 yds between them. But one faces onto a fast-food outlet, and the other one is round the corner facing onto an open green space. I'd expect the latter to cost more.

Location is more than just a matter of distance from a particular point.