Should I buy this house?

[Tobuyornot99]

www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/5814948Any help appreciated, should I buy this house? I'm scared about the mortgage, we'd be doubling our borrowing, went to view last night. I'd want to knock the kitchen and diner into one eventually.
Please pick it apart for me wise MN!

[BackforGood]

I like it too.
Sometimes people can be hyper critical on these threads.

[DobbyLovesSocks]

Going against flow and say I like outside and inside. Wish I could find a house that size for that price where I live (Hampshire) be in there like a shot lol

End of day only time you will see outside is when entering/exiting house, otherwise your inside

[Dowser]

Rendered and painted white would look lovely
I'd go for it.
Heaven only knows how my cousins got such a fab flat for under £200k at the knap. Right on the Bristol Channel
Lucky b. She has the most amazing views

I think you could make that house look amazing...my big worry would be the fact your dh isn't on board.

[trinitybleu]

It's not beautiful but it's certainly not ugly either ... a porch to break up the front would help and I'd paint the pebble dash a pale colour. Have a look round at what others have done for ideas.

It's a lot of house and well laid out.

[InformalRoman]

The gable end wall is brick, but worth double checking construction type. It's not that ugly and you could paint the pebbledash if you find it really offensive.

No chain is a big plus - may be open to a quick deal?

[lalalonglegs]

Is it non-standard construction? Something about those brick pillars at the corners and the rendered walls worries me, I'd want to know a bit more about it's construction before I went much further or you could find it would be unmortgageable.

[Qwebec]

Gosh it seems quite nice to me. The exterior, how about painting it navy blue? could look fab.

[Tobuyornot99]

Thank you all so much for your feedback.
Newport us "on the up" as it's sandwiched between 2 unaffordable cities, Cardiff and Bristol, and there are lots of people moving in from both cities, so really it's our last chace to buy a 4 bed before prices go beyond our means (keeping an eye on house prices has become something of an obsession!), so albeit a plain looking house I think we'll go for it

[downwardfacingdog]

Only issue for me is the price as you'd want to do work to the kitchen and wouldn't see that money back.

[DesolateWaist]

I agree that it isn't pretty but I think that everything else is a win.
Good size rooms, detached, lots of parking.

I would think you'll want to put in a new kitchen soonish.

[ASilhouetteAndNothingMore]

I like the house but the fact that it is surrounded on all sides with other houses would definitely put me off. We are in a similar property which we have rented for the past 4 and a half years.
In that time there have been a string of nightmare neighbours in the property backing onto us. The house next door to that one also have two yapping dogs.
Can't wait to move out.

[SquinkiesRule]

Thata the kind of house we go for, we are in a 70's semi now and do like the room sizes. They are more roomy than the 80's and 90's houses we've looked at.
Unless you've got the hots for character features, (which I don't) then I think 70's houses are pretty good.
Not the prettiest but there are sure to be ways to make more curb appeal.

[JoJoSM2]

It looks like a solid family home to me.

Do think it through with the mortgage as I see that's a concern. Have you worked out a budget that allows for the higher payment every month? You also need to consider that your monthly repayment could be 50% higher when the interest rates go up.

[adriennewillfly]

There's mention in the description of an extension - do they have a completion cert for it? and planning permission?

[EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard]

The Roberts estate agency particulars are much better and give a clearer idea of the floor plan, with a couple of L shaped bedrooms and how the space is used. The bathrooms are a good size too.

I can also see on there now that there's a mix of semi and detached houses and one sold for just under £200,000 last May. So that puts a different picture on it.

It looks a nice area, although parking on the pavements may be an issue? despite that the house has a large driveway so you shouldn't suffer directly from that crowding.

I think you could do quite a bit to pretty it up too and I don't think it would cost a lot, you could certainly start by jet washing the front, maybe weatherboard over the pebbledash if that took your fancy. But you could make cosmetic improvements in time and with three agents and 'No Chain' you might be able to offer a lower price and have money available to do what you want to do.

[RebelandaStunner]

It's plain looking that's all.
A good sized family home with .
I would prioritise sorting out the garden and updating and knocking through the kitchen.

[SwedishEdith]

These pictures are better.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-55243981.html

It's not that bad - was expecting utter hideousness from the comments. The house next door looks like it's been painted white - I'd do the same inside as well.

[1ris]

It's not that ugly! It could look an awful lot better with a new (coloured) front door and by taking down all the clutter around the door (the light, the letterbox thing and those awful plastic round balls of plastic greenery). The front looks damp and needs sprucing up and cleaning all the moss etc.

[LuluJakey1]

Also, that extension is very narrow and would restrict what you could do with those rooms.

[LuluJakey1]

I wouldn't buy it for two reasons.

1. It is expensive in the area- means you are paying top whack, not likely to make money and it needs mney spent on it. It is dated, beige and you want to do the kitchen conversion.
   
2. It is really ugly with a sloping garden. Many people would not look at it if you wanted to sell it, they would be put off by the outside. Anything you could do to the outside to really improve it would be costly.

[Imknackeredzzz]

What an ugly bugger!!!

[Tobuyornot99]

We have a HUGE garden at the moment (ex LA house), and no inclination to do much with it, just pulling weeds and mowing lawn is taxing enough, so the small garden isn't a bother (to me)

[Tobuyornot99]

Thanks all! I was thinking to use the small room at the front as a playroom, leaving the other side of the house as the traditional living room leading to dining room leading to kitchen (until we've the money to knock through). We'd probably use the original master bedroom as ours (built in wardrobes already there), and leave the ensuite room for the endless grandparents visiting, until dc are older and they can fight it out. Thanks for all your opinions, really helpful.

[Kiroro]

Have they converted the garage and put a new one on the side?

Looks like that to me.

I disagree the thin rooms aren't usable tho - the master bedroom is a 'standard' width for master bedrooms in new build flats that are all long and thin. A superking bed is 200cm long so as long as you don't go mental with an ugly sleigh bed you have at least 50cm of space to walk between bed and wall at the foot wall which is fine.

The family room is very suitable for a playroom / TV snug / library / study / music room etc!

[Kiroro]

The size is super, layout is nice. Interior is fine. Parking. Garage. Ticks a lot of boxes if you like the area and the price!

The negative I can see are that it is ugly from the outside (but who cares, you won't be looking at it!), garden is overlooked, garden is a nice size for me but might be a bit small if you have lots of children wanting to play out.

I would want to re-jig the kitchen/dining layout but not essential.