Buying a house Manchester Suburbs

[Grainne84]

Hi ladies,

I'd love some area advice on the suburbs of Manchester please. We've always been south Mcr based in Northenden & surrounding areas but now that we are buying we need to look at cheaper areas.

I've seen a lovely house in Gee Cross can anyone advise on this area? We have two children so schools are very important plus all our friends are in Didsbury or Sale so transport links are important too. We seen another house on Hyde Road in Mottram (although this area seems to be very congested) so we will probably avoid it but I've been advised to avoided Hyde in general & in particular hattersly, I'd really appreciate your thoughts on the area as well as any other reasonable priced/connected areas?

I hear prestwitch is nice but we are just not fussed on going north.

Many thanks!

G xx

When we moved from the Stockport area we loved at a beautiful house in Gee Cross but decided there wasn't much there and it was a bit out on a limb in terms of getting to places. I'm not keen on Hyde, but like everywhere it has better bits. We also looked at Marple, High Lane and Disley. We ended up buying near New Mills, which is 30 mins from Manchester on the train - there are two stations on different lines - on decent bus routes and the A6 is the main arterial road. 15-20 mins from the M60 and the airport relief road will make access to Cheadle, Handforth, the airport and M56 quicker hopefully.

Hey! Thanks so much for your reply.

Completely agree, its rural out there & just outside our comfort zone. We've had a offer accepted in Northern Moor, lovely from outside, best house on the street infact, there were 7 viewings on the first day & we were the first to get the offer in, it was on at £185k which is a bit.much for there & there was another offer above asking (allegedly) so we panicked & went up to £195 but really worried its not worth that now, as its a bit of a doer upper, needs a new bathroom, maybe a wall or 2 knocked, the garden tidying up & lots of textured wallpaper removing, so I'm just petrified we've been too hasty. Going to arange a second viewing today & really weigh it all up..

Have you any idea on cost of the above? Or any home improvement ,house buying tips at all most appreciated xx

I'm not a fan of Northern Moor tbh - just don't like the area. If it's the house I think it is, look at the market information on Rightmove. The house under offer at £185k is much nicer inside with no work needed. I'd be concerned you are over paying.

Hi

Sorry late reply, I wonder if we are talking about the same house lol, would have loved a screenshot to see 😂 we went ahead with it & are due to complete this week.. The valuation came back at £190,000 There was LOTS of unexpected things that arose though & lots needs doing on the house.

My next post will be about remortgaging to pull equity out of the house to do the works so of you have any experience of that it would be most appreciated 😊 xx