To ask what your priorities in buying a house would be?

[Bells3032]

If you were buying what would be your non negotiable.... And how far from a station/high street would you be willing to live?

Wow, just wow. Most people’s list of basic requirements would be 550-600 minimum here. Probably more actually if you wanted a larger garden!

Good garden with decent sunlight.
Decent Sized third bedroom.
Drive and garage.
Two reception rooms.
Easy access to the bus stop for high school.
Non-smoking neighbours
Pub within walking distance

No water, flood plains, low level.

I'll only live on hills far far away from flood plains.

Semi rural
Characterful at least 70 years old
Detached or semi
3 large or 4 medium sized bedrooms
More than one toilet
Large garden ( at least 2x size of house)

Not too many neighbours
Parking for 2 cars
Not on a main road
Under 2 mile to good infant or junior school
Shop within 10 mins
Under 30 mins from parents

Don't mind it needing work
Don't mind adding an extension
Don't mind if the layout needs changing

Garden
Parking (drive/allocated/on street are all fine)
Not a galley kitchen.

Detached
4 double bedrooms
Double garage
At least 3 full bathrooms
At least 2200 sqft
Open plan
Downstairs WC
Utility room large enough to have separate cooker
Breakfast island large enough for 4
Office
Garden and front drive
Basically American in style
Within 1 mile of where I live now

All at a price I am not prepared to pay, so the search goes on. It doesn’t exist, I know.

Parking, good garden, neighbors.

Off road parking, high ceilings, good size garden, character, scope for expansion/improvement, good school catchment/grammar area, I'd happily live rurally or in a village. DH wants a town and mainline station, so we compromised with a seaside town walking distance from mainline to London, twenty/twenty five minute walk to town centre but local mini high Street with nice cafés, hairdresser, florist, butcher, greengrocer etc, ten minute walk to the sea or a nice park. To afford what we wanted where we wanted we had to buy a complete wreck. We're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel though and I've loved where we live for lockdown.

Decent sized bedrooms.
Good schools
Near to town centre
Big kitchen

Four decent sized bedrooms and a south or west facing garden

Detaches
Non-fitted kitchen
2 bedrooms and office or 3 bedrooms
Preferably a cellar
Garage/storage space
and last, but not least

Affordable!

Not in UK, looking in SW France

Not too much land, max 1000 sq m

Non negotiables:

Minimum 3 decent sized bedrooms
Good sized garden
Downstairs loo
Off road parking
Small shop for essentials within easy walking distance
Countryside walks from doorstep

detached
parking
location

Location
Detached
Space
Parking
Garden
Internal layout works for our needs
Needs no/little work

South-facing garden and driveway were our non-negotiables. And a garden large enough for a workshop for DH.

And no more than five minutes walk from a shop. (High Street is about 15 minutes walk and the station is about 25 mins.)

Who on this thread has read anyone else's answer other than their own?

Tag me if you have!

I've read one or two.

4 bed, 2 reception, separate large kitchen diner.
Sw facing garden with an open view to the horizon. Garden at least 1/2 acre, preferably more. Not a garden that has been ‘done’ by someone else either preferably.
Enough room for a Japanese soaking bath.
No neighbours.

Rural/semi rural but with reliable fast broadband.

Min 4 bed plus study

2 bathrooms (one en suite is fine)

Off street parking for 2 cars

Detached

Easy to get to 'town' (supermarket, drs etc).

Not miles away from a city

Land/small holding etc

A cottage for my mum within 2 mins walk

I have quite a bit of that now so v v lucky but dh and I have a dream (and it is a dream based on no reality) of having some small scale market garden so we need land.

The reality is I have kids approaching teen years and whilst I want to live in the country proper, it would be too cut off for them. I grew up rurally and it was difficult and I wouldn't want that for them. Maybe in 10 years time.....

Non-open plan,
Downstairs toilet
Off-road parking
Not low ceilings
You can’t hear motorways, trains etc
Area around looks well kept
Within walking distance of corner shop

S or sw garden not overlooked
A proper living room, no open plan malarkey
Detached

Location first and foremost (the village we like, not on a busy road, walking distance to a shop). Then detached with a decent amount of driveway parking and four decent sized bedrooms.

There are other things we'd like; utility room, dedicated study, etc. But if we get the above right are happy to extend or reconfigure to get to our ideal layout.

One of the main things for me is tidy neighbours. How are you even supposed to know?

Decent garden
Off road parking for 2 cars (and preferably a garage)
Detatched (semi at a push)
Decent sized bedrooms (no one sleeping in a box room) and enough bedrooms so children don't have to share.
Large living space
Not next to a busy road/railway track/airport
Up a hill (less risk flooding)
No more than a mile from high street/amenities
Bath (and upstairs bathroom)
Downstairs toilet
Freehold (or ability to buy the freehold while purchasing)

And with good schools within walking distance!