Which house?

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House 1.

295k
4 bed detached - 3rd bedroom smaller than I want for our son. 4th also small.
Small livingroom
Lovely large kitchen diner
Kids playroom
Garage, external infront of kids playroom window
Unsure of parking, maps looks like only 1 parking space
Small square 8m x 8m garden, north east facing
Less than 10m walk to parks, tesco and primary school
Nice location

House 2

310k
3 bedroom detached - bigger 3rd but no office upstairs
Bigger livingroom
Beautiful kitchen diner with island
Bigger Playroom/office/partial garage conversion. Small garage store
Garden 15.5m x 12m - far bigger and south facing
Good offroad parking for 2+ cars
Room to extend over garage conversion
10m walk to park
16 min walk to primary school
Nice village location

Ideally we wanted a detached, separate work area for me, playroom, garage (storage), bigger room for our son, bigger better positioned garden than what we currently have (6.5m x 8.5m east facing) and a good location.
We would have compromises with either.. not sure which seems best value for money though. Thoughts?

We live in the east midlands

I think house 2 sounds like the better option as you can extend in time to resolve the 3 bed compromise. The compromises with house 1 you'd be stuck with.

house 2, you could stick a home office in the garden

2 sounds better with more potential. You could either extend or convert the loft. We have a big house with a smaller garden (was a compromise) and I really dislike not having the space we had in our old garden.

House 2, no doubt!

House 2

2 no question about it. Seems no comparison between them

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1. If the bedrooms were ideal in 1 and perhaps a slightly less bleak orientation to the garden then I’d say that. But since it has neither of those things then 2. Our garden is south facing and as much as I moan about how HOT it gets, I’d moan far more about a north east facing one being freezing.

House 2 has much more potential and you will really appreciate your south facing garden.

House 2, no question

Then look at more garage conversion for office, or loft.

It has a bigger living room, is a playroom vital?

Definitely 2

House 2, for sure!

Links !!

Post the links and then we tell you

Have to agree with the others - house 2 sounds better in the long-term.

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House 2.

House 2 for all the reasons given already.

House 2

House 2

From how you’ve described them, I’m not sure what you like about House 1 - yes it’s £15k less and has an extra bedroom but you don’t like the size of the bedroom and it sounds like it has no potential to correct any issues you’d have.

Don't put the links up! Don't you remember that time when someone did that and the estate agent took it down and it was up later for more money?

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I'm the seller.