Disclaimer: I know £700k is a fortune to spend on a house outside of London, but this is our budget and we are struggling to find what we want in London.
We want London north of the river or suburbs of London (because of where we both work), either a natural 4 bedder (not loft converted) or a 3 bed we can do a loft conversion on, but would need to then be more like 600k in that case. I want a garden. I want at least 3 of the bedrooms to be doubles. I want good space downstairs (I really want a utility room, or space to add one).
Am I being unrealistic? The sort of house in the sort of area we want seems to be more like 850k and we cannot stretch to that. Am willing to look at areas outside if London but close. North or West of the city preferably.