Would you pay more for a house with a great view?

[DayAtTheRaces]

I’ve been watching those TV shows about house hunting, especially one about Coast vs Country house.

It’s fairly obvious that houses with a great view of rolling hills, lakes or a sea view cost a lot more than a similar house with a view of other houses or commercial buildings, schools etc.

How much more do you think it would be worth it to buy a house with a great view? 15%, 20%, 30% etc.? I’m trying to plan our next move and wondering if I should pay more for a view or just go for a bigger house for the same budget but without anything nice to look at.

Thoughts?

To some people views don't matter. To me they do, a lot. I moved into this house partly because it's at the top of a a small hill and we can see hills and a forest 20 miles away. Looking at the horizon is good for my mental health.

absolutely I have gone for a view with any house

• currently selling my house and the view will hopefully mean a lot of interest

We paid over the odds for this house because we needed to move in a hurry and the sellers were willing to make it quick. We didn’t specifically pay more for the view but I wouldn’t have bought it without the view as it’s an ok house but not really my style.

No. I used to live in one. After a few years I got so used to the view I didn't really notice it any more.

I’m always surprised on those programs when they harp on about the view and it’s just a field.
Our house backs onto woodland and a park which can never be built on. This is the view from my bed.

Yes, my flat was more expensive than those on the other side of the building as it overlooks regents canal.

Yes a good view makes me happy

I’m not bothered about views at all and wouldn’t pay extra

Depends on the view, I find it odd when those property programmes have people from London who get emotional about flat brown fields in the fens and call it beautiful 🤨

I think it’s worth a bit extra to have a distant horizon, it’s relaxing for the eyes. I used to feel quite enclosed when I lived in London because it’s hard focus on something very distant. The last place that we lived before we left was my favourite, we were on the fifth floor and could see for miles to the east. We were beside the Thames and when the big cruise ships were around we could see them arriving and leaving for ages. We lived there for a decade and I loved it as much when we left as I did when we bought it.

@PancakeAndKeith

Do you really struggle to understand why someone may really rate an I broke view of a field - and the sense of wide open space and nature that that offers?

I’m always surprised on those programs when they harp on about the view and it’s just a field

I think the same.That's not what I call a view!
But I suppose if you've been used to seeing nothing but other people's houses out your window, an open outlook is a bonus.

We live just outside a national park. In the size of house we have if it were to move just 10 miles you could easily add 100k more.
From the very front of my garden if I were to peer across a farmhouse and a barn I can see mountains.
We toyed with buying in the national park but realised you'd soon get used to the view and it was not worth it.

It will depend where the house is and whether people actually prefer to be in the local picturesque town or village with no view or in an isolated location with a view. Around me, the former costs more due to rail links and facilities. Houses with the best views are not always the best houses either.

Having said that, in some areas, the view is everything but even in Cornwall, edge of village with a view tends to cost more than isolated with a view.

Do you really struggle to understand why someone may really rate an I broke view of a field - and the sense of wide open space and nature that that offers?

Yes. When it’s a dull flat field without so much as a tree. But then I grew up in the countryside with a view across a valley.

Just sold this view. Priceless but we are moving for work and it has gone to lovely friends.

To be honest I think I'd rather look out onto a sole field than a "wall"of woodland or trees. Pancake those trees are lovely and certainly screen you from other houses, but I don't see it as a special view. It's all personal. I prefer a distant horizon, as someone previously said, with hills and distant trees or water to give it more interest.

But a plain field doesn’t change throughout the year. Trees always add interest.
There aren’t houses on the other side of them so I’m the winter I can see to the horizon.

Trees are lovely, but when there are too many and it's just a wall of leaves I'd feel a bit claustrophobic. We have very mature trees to the edge of our view, which acts as a nice frame, but it's the open view and distance that pleases me most. And a field can most certainly change throughout a year IMO. The fields in front of our house have rushes, bracken, wild flowers etc. In the distance towards the moors they get covered in heather at certain times of the year. Granted it's not just one field, it's open country for miles. But as I said, each to his own and I don't mean to offend.

(Ps, I love the coastal view above my previous post).

This is ours.

This is ours

Would expect to but it would be more of a decisive factor as to which property to consider. Ie. Would not buy on the coast without a sea view somewhere.

There is no point. You don't own the view. Someone could come along and build on it and you could have paid an extra 30% for nothing.

cis that view is spectacular. I'd find it very hard to leave that view.

We paid quite a bit more for the fact we don't have any immediate neighbours and these front and rear facing views. On same house size approx 25%.

@Amibeingdaft81 being from Wales, no I really don't see the appeal to miles of flat mud fields. Yes it's better than most other views, but still wouldn't call it beautiful.

To the side. Amazing