Non fitted kitchen

[almondsareforevermore]

Our kitchen, in a very old house, is not fitted. There’s a big dresser, table and chairs, fridge and dish washer. There is a separate larder.
We shall be selling early next year and been told that buyers won’t get a mortgage if there’s no usable kitchen. There is nowhere to put fitted cupboards while the dresser and table are there.
Won’t any buyer want to put their own fitted units in?

surely it's that there has to be a functional kitchen, rather than a fitted one? As in, there needs to be a cooking facility, and a place to wash up and prepare food, rather than a need for the cabinets themselves to be fixed to the wall.

Are you planning to take the free-standing units with you or are you leaving them behind when you move out? If you are leaving the buyer without the basics of a functional kitchen I guess that may be the issue.

I'm interested in any responses you get as I am currently interested in offering on a house with an unfitted kitchen!

So will there be no storage cupboards when you move out? Are there any on the walls at all? Most people would want to have some sort of storage to start with and may not want to go straight into buying a new kitchen

I don’t understand why they wouldn’t get a mortgage offer.

When my uncle died, his kitchen was unfitted, his Aga was removed by his sister (nicked) because it was the source of cooking and hot water, with nothing like an immersion heater for hot water, this rendered the house un mortgageable, not having an unfitted kitchen.

Banks won't give a mortgage on a house if there is no bathroom or kitchen. If you are leaving the.uunits behind it might not be a problem, but you may end up with lower offers as people may want to put a fitted kitchen in.

I don't think it would be a problem if you leave everything in place as it's clearly a functional kitchen.

Surely its not beyond the wit of man for a buyer to buy a cupboard? And people often take appliances anyway. Presumably there is a sink?

For mortgage purposes a kitchen just just means a functioning sink and a cooker, or at least the plumbing for a cooker (plenty of threads about arguments over taking/leaving range cookers...).
People buying very old houses are not going to be more impressed if you slap in a fitted kitchen to sell it! And you don't need to leave your dresser behind- but you can discuss that with buyers of course.

Not at all, it will be grand