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Nice places to live in Cardiff

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BonnesVacances · 07/09/2019 21:16

We're thinking of moving to Cardiff in a couple of years and wondering what we'd get for our money there in a nice area. Obviously 'nice' is subjective, so I mean somewhere that looks smart and is safe. Probably somewhere the estate agents call a popular area.

We live in a 4 bed detached house atm and would be looking for 3, maybe 4 bedrooms, for around £375,000. Schools aren't important as DC will be finished then, with DS just starting college. So obviously he'd need to be able to get to one of those.

How likely is it?

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whotheeff · 07/09/2019 23:26

We literally just moved to Cardiff last week from Leeds for work. We have 2 high school age children.

After much research we're renting in Roath and so far love it. Lots to do and Wellfield road has great restaurants. The park is gorgeous and my husband and I ran round there today watching lots of kids football training so it's great that there are so many families here.

My biggest gripe is schools. Yes it's the beginning of the school year but our kids still haven't been allocated places and it's unlikely they'll get in in our catchment school. It's a farce.

Having said that there's plenty to keep them occupied cheerleading, horse riding and drama school.

We find house prices here pretty comparable to Leeds but the housing stock is better - lots of big Victorian terraces.

Happy to help as we find our way. We're off to the beach tomorrow so lots of reasons to love Cardiff so far!

whotheeff · 07/09/2019 23:29

We're renting close by and these are lovely assuming you can always get less than asking price

Princes Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64813500.html

Claude Road, Cardiff
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64264047.html

Roath Court Road, Roath, Cardiff, CF24
www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-64620189.html

whotheeff · 07/09/2019 23:30

If you want detached you may want to look further out at Whitchurch

stoneysongs · 07/09/2019 23:35

Roath is nice with the park
Llandaff North
Radyr
Canton

stoneysongs · 07/09/2019 23:36

(Don't think you'd get 3/4 bed detached in Whitchurch for your budget)

BonnesVacances · 08/09/2019 08:08

Lovely, thank you. Some areas to research on Right Move.

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Squirreltamer · 08/09/2019 21:44

There are detached houses in Whitchurch for that money. Mostly to the right of the Manorway between Whitchurch and Birchgrove. But still Whitchurch. Cheaper as it’s split off the village via the dual carriage way still expensive on the dual carriage way mind! Seems main roads don’t effect price as much in Cardiff and the manor way is “The Main Road” in north Cardiff.

You’ll also get detached 1960s houses in Rhiwbina - away from the garden village: conservation areas.

And in Llanishen/Thornhill - again away from the village and they’re 1950s - 1990s houses some very cheap on the council estate and ex council estate and some expensive the nearer the village or Lisvane you are.

Heath - a rare few detached ones for your budget they’d probably need a lot of work.

For your budget you will have to compromise for a detached house. It will either have to be away from the villages or have less kerb appeal/ smaller in general.

Lots of the more central “nice” areas have very very few detached houses and the ones which are, are usually converted coach houses at the bottom of gardens.

Radyr, Cyncoed, Lisvane are mostly detached but will be over your budget (and mine)
Pontcanna, Canton, Llandaff North, Roath are mostly terraced, semi and still pretty expensive. The only detached ones. Roath Park, Llandaff city are big BIG money.

The new estates they’re building off Lisvane and Radyr have detached starting at 350k but I imagine they’d be smallish.

I wouldn’t rate any other areas of Cardiff. Not that they’re bad but they’re not nice IMHO.

stoneysongs · 09/09/2019 09:36

Ooh no squirrel, surely anything east of manor way is birchgrove!

JenniR29 · 09/09/2019 09:42

I used to live in the Birchgrove/Llanishen area, good transport links and in budget there. Canton is nice too but car parking is a nightmare. Whitchurch and Pontcanna are lovely but probably not in budget (worth a look though). Llandaff North is becoming more popular, they’ve redeveloped much of it and it’s in the catchment area for a good high school.

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