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Is house A worth 90k more than house B?

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 15:43

Views from the wise women of MN.
Both houses really nice 5 bedroom detached. Both in similar locations close to each other, not overlooked and away from main roads. House A has double garage and house B just a single integral garage)
House A has lovely large kitchen/dining room whereas house B has separate ones. Bathrooms in house B I think are slightly nicer as they are larger and en-suite has jacuzzi bath.
House A has a swimming pool, house B a hot tub.
Is A worth that much more than B?
Views?
House A - www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35399774.html

House B - www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-20501547.html

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LIZS · 27/10/2011 15:49

Difficult to sya without more pics of no.2 but 2nd house has 5th bd in attic, so perhasp smaller footprint/plot and looks more closed in. Not sure how much use you get out of either a pool or hot tub tbh !

SugarLemons · 27/10/2011 15:51

yes i'd say so

pippala · 27/10/2011 15:52

Definatly house A!
Love the kitchen space. House B has seperate dinning room which will only be used for sunday best (in our house anyway) waste of a room IMO
Swimming pool will be well used as you live in the SE. Ours costs us about £1,000 per year to heat and chemicals etc, always open/close clean ourselves as it very easy! We heat only in april and sept the rest of the year it stays 84ish due to the sun and the solar bubble cover we bought.
Hot tubs need to be constantly heated, full of dead skin and boby fluids and when the sun is hot you need to cool down not sit in hot water.

HettyAmaretti · 27/10/2011 15:54

A is certainly worth more than B.

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 15:56

Not sure why not many pictures of House B on rightmove but think (hopefully) here are some from estate agents website.
www.homesonview.co.uk/Scripts/FullDetails.aspx?CID=ASTOCRAW&AID=ASTOCRAW&PID=ACP03155
Lizs yes, house B has large bedroom in loft conversion and also a study area which is quite nice whereas house H has a downstairs study.

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LoopyLoopsPussInBoots · 27/10/2011 15:59

I prefer house C, D and E.

LIZS · 27/10/2011 15:59

That's better. B rooms looks boxier in the photos. How much garden is left in A's plot if you allow for the pool ?

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 16:00

pippala that is very interesting and useful information about pool maintenance/heating. I had no idea how much that would be. Is that for an electric heater?

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 16:04

Loopyloops nice, but out of catchment.
Liz don't think B's photos do it justice. Downstairs rooms are smaller, obviously kitchen/dining room in A is amazing but think bedrooms in B are slightly bigger than A.
Not a huge amount of garden left in A after pool and no grass which I didn't particularly like. All paved in backgarden and a little bit of gravel at side which I suppose could be replaced with grass for DC.

Obviously I know A is worth a lot more than B but not sure it is worth 90k more

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Itsjustafleshwound · 27/10/2011 16:09

Could be proximity to good schools - 0.2 of a mile is a big deal! Just because you are in a certain road in our neighbourhood also adds value - our house is worth £10K more because we don't live in the road up our street??

It also all boils down to what you are prepared to pay for a house and what blather the agent has told the vendors ...

LIZS · 27/10/2011 16:11

Also depends where on the estate they are. The Balcombe road end was built earlier than the rest iirc.

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 16:13

Istjustafleshwound funny you should say that. I said to DH this morning that we ought to look into the distance in relation to catchment. Local infant school VERY oversubscribed and house A appears to be twice as far away although doesn't seem it driving but suppose they do as crow flies?
DH and I have been arguing/discussing this like sensible adults for a few days now and are torn

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Itsjustafleshwound · 27/10/2011 16:15

This knowledge comes from bitter experience and a whole lot of school gate gossip!

Oh! How we all laugh when the EA pamphlets come out about new developments and their promises that the schools fall in catchment areas!!

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 16:24

itsjustafleshwound oh dear, that doesn't sound good Sad
Lizs both in 'old' part of MB, which is apparently the most sought after part. House A is in fact the first road off the Balcombe road

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ChippingInToThePumpkinLantern · 27/10/2011 16:28

I would definitely contact the school and ask for their take on the 'catchment' area.

IndieSkies · 27/10/2011 16:31

They might do shortest lit walking distance. You need to find out.

B is more attractive, IMO. But I would knock through the kitchen - dining room, or kitchen - 'family room'.

Double garages - expensive use of bricks and mortar, IMO. That's commuter belt suburbia for you.

Do you want a pool / double garage?

Can you walk to shops?

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 16:37

thanks for advice, will contact school next week or maybe ask local council as they allocate places.
'shortest lit walking distance'?
DH wants a double garage even though I've just pointed out even with a single he never puts his bloody car in it. The pool is tempting for me, childhood dream Blush but not sure how much we'd actually use it.

Can walk to shops from both, probably 10-15 (depending how slow bloody kids are) mins from house A and 5 from house B.

IndieSkies interesting thought about knocking through on House B. Dining room was an extension though so wall between kitchen and dining room is an external wall so not sure if that would cause problems. Might be worth talking to a builder I suppose.

I'm so glad I've got you lovely ladies to 'talk to' about this. DH and I are going round and round and round............Wink

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IndieSkies · 27/10/2011 16:56

Shortest lit walking route = not across a field or down an unlit alleyway, but can include an alley with lighting. It's a way of defining a safe walking route and stopping parents claiming that they are in cactchemnt because they can trespass across the landfill site as a shortcut, or for a local authority to claim that it is reasonable for a child to cross railway tracks wghere there is no crossing. I presume.

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 17:04

gosh, you know so much about this, thank you. There are loads of footpaths around this village/estate but no idea whether they are lit. Will go and look tomorrow.

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EdlessAllenPoe · 27/10/2011 17:05

an exterior pool can reduce value as they aren't useful all year-round and cost to maintain (they don't keep themselves leaf free)

for that budget...are you sure about area/ style of house? (ok, me projecting dislike of new-style builds here...plenty of victorian stuff in Crawley)

for your 90k you also get a slightly larger kitchen and a futility.

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 17:10

funny you should say that "Edless*, I read an article a few years ago about pools reducing value and apparently a lot of buyers actually fill them in which seems a bit daft to me.
I know what you are saying about new builds but we want to be in catchment for the local school.
Yes, love the large kitchen and utility room, have always wanted/needed one.

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EdlessAllenPoe · 27/10/2011 17:15

cute, out in the sticks....

is walking distance to the joys of crawleys shops really such a draw?

i'm thinking that the big sainsburys just outside crawley is going to get most of your trade anyway....(or, the big tescos a bit further away..)...though it is nice to have a 'nice walk' built in to where you live...crawley town centre isn't my idea of that. the park is ok i suppose.

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MOSagain · 27/10/2011 17:16

very nice but not enough bedrooms sadly

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EdlessAllenPoe · 27/10/2011 17:17

the way i see it - hot tub = luxury
swimming pool = exercise :)

i know which appeals to me more....

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