If you were searching for a house today

[isseywith4vampirecats]

With the criteria you had when you found your house to buy how many houses would you be looking at today, when we were looking last year we found about 12 houses that had elements of what we were looking for semi detached, with a garage and within our price bracket, I put the same criteria into rightmove the other night and would have only had one house that fitted the bill without any compromises

I looked for anything that had the right number of bedrooms or could be amended to have the right number of bedrooms within a certain distance of kids school and that i could afford. Didn't have any other criteria set in stone. How many does the garage take out of the equation? Or semi v terrace?

We are looking and told that things won't pick up till April when more houses come on the market (in the northern hemisphere anyway where it will be Spring). Due to our criteria we might only get 3-4 come up that look ok, and of those might only go to see 2. Equally, we aren't in a rush and not in a chain or selling our own home.

I just put a search into Rightmove using price and number of bedrooms. We brought a three bed detached 12 years ago. Today I would get a three bed terraced for the same price.

I think it really just depends on what's on the market at any given time. You might be lucky or it might take a while.

This was the only house we looked at when we bought it. It looked like it'd be right when we looked on RM so we viewed it. And it was pretty much exactly what we wanted. So we bought it.

When I bought my previous house, I had to look at loads of houses before I found one that was alright for me. Same with the houses before that.

Many houses have the bedrooms we need but I specifically wanted a period house. In budget right now, are 0. One came up last month and sold within a couple of days and 1 is there but 20k over budget. The market seems to be full of new build style though.

ours had to have a garage as we have two motorbikes so need for them they are too easy to be stolen nowadays so a terraced was no good for us, and a lot of the terraced houses where we live are in not very good area mainly Victorian back to backs with no front garden let alone any space at the back , yes they are cheap but I don't want to live there, the bigger semis and posh streets were out of our budget due to OHs pension drawdown we had a fixed budget

Haha I bought 20 years ago, a 3bed semi would not come up in that price bracket now (probably nothing, not even a garage)... We didn't have many criteria then, but are very happy to be living where we are (obviously!)
In our 3digit postcode there are 53 properties now, most of them waaaayyy out of what would be our current price range.

Absolute must not have -
*Listed building
*Thatched roof
*Shared drive
*New build estate
*Septic tank

Absolutely must have -
*Gas central heating
*Off road parking for at least two vehicles
*Detached

As there's only the two of us we only wanted two bedrooms, yet we wanted lots of downstairs space. There were only a couple that fit the bottom heavy category. We ended up buying one that had been a 3 bed but the tiniest room had been converted into a bathroom. It works very well for us we have enough downstairs space, a spare bedroom and a bathroom each! Nothing near us that fits the bill atm but it's not spring yet I think the market usually picks up then in most regions.

Get this... (OK I've lived here quite a while...) I just did a search in our town for what we have now: 3-bed terraced, and the average cost is nearly TEN TIMES what we paid in the late 80's.

wow dustibooks that show how much houses have gone up our first house way back in the 80s in near Croydon cost us £43000 I looked on rightmove for the same street a few months ago and now selling at near on £250000 and that's a bog standard ex council terraced three bed