Help my choose between these houses!

[katemyn]

House A

Medium sized kitchen/diner
Decent sized living room but is a bit dark
Two double rooms
1 single
Detached
Decent decent garden but needs turf laying
Driveway
Could prob get for £195k but need to spend £10k on new kitchen etc

House B

Semi detached
Large living room
Large dining room
3 double bedrooms
Small garden
No driveway
Probably get for £215k and needs £20k spent which is doable but pushing it slightly.

Both are in really short distance of each other so nothing between them in terms of location. Not sure if the small garden and kitchen is a deal breaker on house B even though living space is bigger...

[katemyn]

thanks bakeoffcake!

[DownWithThisTypeOfThing]

Yep, still A.

[antimatter]

I would buy ouse B.
Reason - third bedroom can be occupied by a (messy) teenager

third bedroom in detached house is IMHO small.

[Bakeoffcake]

I think B is bigger and lighter. You could easily knock down the wall between the kitchen and dining room in B, so you would have a nice sized room.

I can't work out why B is more expensive than A, when B needs so much more doing to it, has a much smaller garden and is semi detatched.

[OatcakeCravings]

Detached every time.

[antimatter]

*too small

[katemyn]

Would like to put in French doors in A and maybe add conservatory in future. That would hopefully let in more light to living room too. Brown carpet doesn't help. Been on for 2 months with no offers which is really unusual for this area and is making me wonder if I'm missing something..

[katemyn]

B has a view.. Maybe that's it! It does seem a bit overpriced but the agent says there's been interest and a cheeky offer that was turned down

[mamapants]

When I looked at 'look at similar properties' one came up at 195. Don't know if location is wrong but it seems much nicer and bigger than the two you are looking at.

[CrapBag]

From your list I would have said A. From the links i'd say B. A seems very small. I wouldn't like that front room at all. The garden isn't bad in B and I am confused as to why you said there is no driveway at B, it looks like one to me, especially when you look next door and see theirs in front of the garage and what is the dining room now used to be the garage with the drive in front of it.

You really sound like you prefer B as well so go for that one.

[QOD]

I'd always go up from what you have now.
Detached is always good. Fecking neighbours we had drove us out

[katemyn]

Mama, the £195k is lovely but a repo and already had offer accepted

[PrimalLass]

B is nicer.

[mamapants]

I see, people always snap up repos as you get more for money.
I'm no help as can't decide between the two you've posted.
I think the second one.

[Ohanarama]

We had a house very similar in layout to A. It was a nightmare to sell! On paper it sounded good - 3 bed, detached, kitchen-diner - but nearly all the people who viewed it had kids and said the bedrooms were too small for all their stuff! It took over a year to sell and we had to drop the price loads. I would go for B and the extra internal space as lack of space will do your head in very quickly and you'll want to move again in the next few years.

[mamapants]

How do you know they are likely to accept 195 for first one?
I do prefer the look of the second one, but it does look like quite a bit of work to do on it. So if it is going to cost you twenty grand more to buy and ten more to do up, is it thirty grand better?
I'm not sure

[katemyn]

Mama- agents hinted that would be a reasonable offer. I'm not sure its worth £30k more either! Would be better investment longer term tho I think...

[SquinkiesRule]

I'd go A.
Theres more room in the kitchen and garden. Detached wins for me every time. It's cheap enough you could maybe extend out the back eventually or put on a conservatory to use as a play room while kids are little.

[oolaroola]

What about this one? could knock through the kitchen dining and it has a lovely garden

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-45679588.html

[katemyn]

Oola- areas not so great. We're trying to stay in close proximity to really good primary school so search area is very small!

[landoflostcontent]

A. Detached means less worry about noisy neighbours (and later on your . The staircase in B goes out of the living room which I personally don't like.

House B looks lighter in the photographs but they were taken in sunshine. House A would appear to have the sun shining on the garden and the back of the house so patio doors to the garden would let the sun pour in.