Which house would you buy?

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We want to buy a 4 bed house. Most detached houses here in our budget are on busy roads.

House A: Around £850k for about 1850 sft detached. Needs a bit of work and new bathrooms. Backs on to a busy road.

House B: £750k for a 2000sft detached. But the road connects two busy roads. There is a bit of traffic with the bus stop diagonally opposite the house. Very small garden but backs on to a public park.

House C: The other day we drove past a quiet neighbourhood and there was a 4 bed semi for sale. It’s at £570k and needs a full refurb. It’s 2000sft and the room sizes are good too. One more problem is it has a north facing garden and the front garden is really small.

I want to go with the semi (option c) and slowly get work done. Can buy a second buy-to-let with the money we save. DH wants to wait for a suitable detached to come to the market.

Which option would you chose?

If you end up with a noisy neighbour semis are really awful. Ok people can be noisy in their gardens but you can get away from it and it only tends to be in good weather, I lived in a semi years ago that had really horrifically noisy neighbours it was truly dreadful. I am in a big semi and have had the same very quiet neighbours for 22 years but they are really getting on in years. When that house sells it will very probably be to a family or someone planning one. Even well behaved children make noise.