To wonder what it felt like when you had 'the feeling' when viewing a house?

[Mentalblip]

What did it feel like for you???
I think I just felt it for the first time!

A feeling of excitement.

Then fear waiting for offer to be accepted.

Then excitement when it was.

Then fear it would all fall through.

Then moving in felt like home.

As soon as we walked in for the viewing I felt calm and safe & the whole feeling just got better and better the further round we walked.
As pp said moving date felt like coming home.
Best of luck with your move op

I was shocked at how much work would need to be done, but I just knew it was 100% where we'd be moving to. I didn't exactly love it, but it was right and exactly what we'd been looking for. It was fait accompli. I knew the minute I saw the thumbnail and map on Rightmove.

Just ‘this is it’. I don’t think I’d got further than the hall. Three times.
I knew things would need doing but it was just inevitable evolutions to something that was already ‘right’.

I could just imagine myself living in the house, walking up the path and opening the front door. I even planned where the Christmas tree would be :)

It was more that a house, it was our home :)

For us it was the fact that every other how we’d viewed just didn’t feel quite ‘right’ somehow. They were perfectly nice houses, it was usually something we couldn’t quite put our finger on.

When we viewed our house, it was filthy and disgusting but we somehow felt excited about its potential. We talked about it all the way home.

I walked through the house and burst into tears 🤣

It was SO embarrassing! I'm a bloody architect and very very emotionally detached from property.

I had never been mushy about a house before & whenever I watched Kirsty and Phil I'd laugh at anyone who cried at their forever home.

But when I viewed the house I'm in now, I fell apart. Cringe cringe awkward cringe!!

It's just a basic tiny 2 bed house as well. Nothing grand.

I didn't even believe in "forever homes" until I viewed this pokey little dwelling!!

Being able to visualise my family in the living room and kitchen diner, living our lives in the future. Misty eyes 🤣

From the moment I saw it. And then when we went to view it and walked into the house, we absolutely knew. It was a mess and needed a lot of cosmetic work and we did the visual equivalent of putting g your fingers in your ears and going la la la so we wouldn’t see anything that would change our minds. Still here 15 years later. It is a magical house. I would never leave it as it would feel like a betrayal. It’s ours.

We looked at loads and had an offer rejected on the first house we offered. That house I was instantly wowed by the kitchen and curb appeal but the garden was tiny and we have young children. Despite being close to a school I liked it just didn't love it.

The house we bought we saw the following week and I instantly felt a good 'vibe' when I entered. The house was flooded with light and i instantly liked it.The rooms were a great size, separate dining room and a good sized garden. The bedrooms were spacious and I get it would be a house in which our family could grow. It felt calming, like I was home. It will be 5 years this December and I still love it. Don't get me wrong it needed improvements but when you walk in and imagine your family living there, that's the house you go for.

It's hard to put it into words but basically what @BeenHereForYonkyDoodles said!

All these people who just knew, did you not have to make sure you didn't just fall for the shiny, done up house, rather than the one with the things you wanted, but work to be done to get it all right? I find it far easier to be seduced by the fancy looking one, when actually I'm looking at space, layout etc.

We walked into the hallway and I thought yes this is nice.
Then DH opened the sitting room door and I saw the most beautiful double receception room I had ever seen and DH and I looked at each and my heart started to gallop. We both knew it had to be ours and spent the next 5 hours drinking wine in a restuarant at the end of the street while watching someone get married in the church across the road. On Monday I got the mortgage agreed and Tuesday we placed the offer - a bit below asking price but all we couldn't quite afford and they accepted as they felt it was meant to be.
Still absolutely love this house as do our two DDs who were born in it.

Literally walked through the door, saw the hallway and knew it was the one. Felt like coming home and just felt this sense of belonging there.

Walked in and it was awful decor but I didn’t see any of it, just imagined how I could live there.

Not me @StrawberrySquash as it was the size and ceilings of that reception room that seduced me. The house looked pretty good but it was a home as opposed to a staged showhouse nice and I knew it was for us.

I had it just from looking at the Rightmove listing. We are on an estate so all the houses are pretty similar and we had looked at 2 on the same estate before but for some reason this one felt like the one. Even with the horrible brown carpet and kids toys piled high in the living room 🤣

We saw 5 in one day. This was the last and wildcard as out of town.

At each house we'd sat in the car and done a pro and con.

This one we looked around then as we walked towards the car I said to DH and can't think of a single con and he said same. We then went home, grabbed the kids and drove them to the road and said this is the house, you will have to use public transport and we are further out. They all said yes so we put an offer in for asking.

Still don't know what it is but a year on it just feels like it was meant to be for all of us

The cat also loves it

It was perfect in every way & it immediately felt like home !
The property also ticked all the boxes on my list & was within budget & a great location

However, I knew that it would not be my forever home & due to circumstances I ended up moving after a few years

For me it's not having to try and talk myself into anything. Most houses I have that sense of "I know it's probably not a big deal, and I'm sure we'd get used to it, BUT....." Whereas with the houses I've actually bought, the compromises just didn't feel like a big deal.

But maybe for you, the decor actually is one of the most important things. There's no point talking yourself into a house that you don't really love just because it's the "more sensible" option, or you could make the most profit on it if you're willing to live on a building site for 18 months if you really don't want to do that.

No such thing as free money. Doing up a property is hard work, and you might make more money by working longer hours at your regular job! As long as you're sensible with what you pay for a property, it's very rarely objectively "wrong".

Our last house I thought:

This is the one.
This is going to happen. (We'd already been gazumped on another one. )
I was always meant to live here.
This house has been waiting for me.

We moved from there 3 years ago as we had 2 kids by then and had outgrown it. Our new house is very similar but a bigger version. We've renovated and decorated it just like our old house.

But I just don't love it like our old house 😭 Not the same feeling!

I did that 😂

I think I must be the odd one as the first time I saw our house I dismissed it, that was partly because it was more money than we wanted to spend so I didn't want to like it. After a couple of other houses fell through we went back over the houses we had seen and decided to stretch ourselves and go for this one. We have only been here a few weeks and obviously the past few months have got tricky for everyone financially but it does feel right and I feel happier and happier here each day.