House buying deal breakers

[HamAndPlaques]

My brother has just withdrawn an offer on a house because it doesn't have a gas supply, only electricity. Does everybody have a 'deal breaker' when it comes to buying property?

I didn't think I had one but DH has just reminded me that I do, and it's a bath. When we were house-hunting we viewed a place where the bathroom was brand new and the bath had been replaced by an enormous double shower cubicle with a very expensive, massive shower head. Gorgeous, but there was no bath. I could have lived without for a while in preparation to fit a new bathroom but we couldn't have justified redoing that room for at least ten years, so it wasn't for us.

What are your deal breakers...?

Main one for me is absolutely cannot have a bathroom which opens into the kitchen.

P.s. Like the poster upthread, i didn't notice my kitchen had no drawers until after we bought it either!

Until we started looking, I didn't realise I had any dealbreakers. But it turned out I did.

I had to have a downstairs loo, a futility room, a shower, off street parking, decent garden, lots of 'green' and lots of other kids.

I managed to get it all and couldn't be happier (actually, that's a lie, I would be happier if the vendor hadn't left me 2 skips worth of trash in the back garden....but I can deal with that)

I love the idea of a futility room

Shared anything
Communal anything

Must have garden
Must have driveway
Must be detached

Hmmm. I've been thinking a lot about this very thing lately. I think my deal breakers would be:

More than 50 years old
No off street parking
No nearby shops within walking distance
Not a new estate type development
Would have to have reasonable size garden
Preferably a big frontage - front door a fairly long distance from road
Max 10 mile radius to where I currently live
Nowhere near pylons or as works
Preferably a no through road

Busy road, no off-street parking, any major building work, no bath, no mains gas, no mains sewage/drains, no garden, electric storage heaters, listed/conservation area.

mrsbug yy to Kitchens in living rooms. So many new builds have that now and it would be an absolute deal breaker for me

Location I narrows it down to about 15 streets in a certain village.
Had to have been built before 1950's
Had to have potential to add value
Had to have decent hallway

My partners were:
Garage
Space for shed
Driveway good size

I dont like houses that have been well refurbished but not to my taste.

I.e. I don't mind ripping out old decor or big building works (currently in the midst of an extension build) but I feel bad throwing away a new bathroom just because its got gold taps and faux Grecian basins standing majestically on carved fish tails.