What made you sell your house?

[peaches36]

We moved into our house in October and I’m already ready to sell up 🤣 the two factors for me are that we’ve realised it’s too small for us, and the road we live on is so narrow that it’s near impossible for me to get on/off our driveway if someone is parked opposite it/next to it (something we didn’t really notice much until we actually moved in, stupidly) Very small thing that stresses me out massively

Intrigued to know what were other people’s ‘deciding factors’ on selling up and looking for somewhere new?

DH's new job 200 miles away, no other option really . Only moved twice in our 30+ year marriage ... both for job reasons. Would like to move again but will probably wait until we retire ... hopefully not too long now.

We’ve just moved on from what is usually marketed as a ‘starter home’. when we bought it we only had 1 child, it was what we could afford and ticked the boxes at the time. We saved hard planning to do lots of updating but it was never suitable for extending really. Seven years, another child and a cat we’d outgrown it. Throw in a jump in income as I returned to work after being a SAHM, both of us working from home but no room for workspace, a box room of a 3rd bedroom that didn’t even fit a single and parking just a nightmare and it seemed a no brainer when we realised we could afford a four bed nearby rather than spending money doing work that still wouldn’t give us what we needed. Don’t regret it for a minute (except missing the lovely neighbours but have equally lovely ones here!).

Someone offered us more money than we could reasonably refuse so we sold it to them.z

Awful neighbours and more space. But mainly the neighbours.

Antisocial neighbours - loud rap kareoke parties to early hours, dropping bags of glass bottles over the balcony on to my garden, deliberately breaking security gate. The housing association that housed her was happy to buy from me.

Always knew we'd move at some point, after around 5 years, moved after 6, had outgrown the old house so needed something bigger, also wanted a detached.

I was woken by an attempted burglary the night after we moved in. Never felt secure after that.

I've never moved from a place I owned so quickly, but you should if you're not happy. Take your time over it though, think about what you want and be prepared to wait for it.

Out of interest, I wonder what the average age is on this thread. DH and I are 47 and this house is the 3rd property we’ve owned, having first bought when we were 27. I thought we’d be in our “forever” home now, but whether it’s having been locked down or not, I’m really keen to move again - preferably to the middle of nowhere

I love the little area we live in but we will be moving in a couple because:

• we want to be closer to family
• the kids are bigger and we need more space

Simple reasons and we have a lovely house despite constant diy jobs needed!

I wanted a view, to be semi-rural and wanted an old house.

I disliked the area I used to live in because it was desirable for schools (no kids) the postcode and its general twatty-ness. I stumbled into into the area really.

In reality it's just a suburb or average 1930s semis on the edge of a busy by-pass.

I liked the house, we did lots of work on it but I always felt closed in.

Parallel driveways without a border in-between - watched my neighbour slam open their car door into hours without a care in the world, & thought to myself ' why should I have to put up with living near such inconsiderate selfish scumbags' . Well you shouldn't , so we moved :D

Very interesting reading everyone’s reasonings! This is our first home we’ve bought together (we’re both late 20’s)

We have experienced weird neighbours across the road already!

House prices in our area are extortionate! 2 bed terraced houses are being built currently near us and are selling for nearly £300k. We feel very lucky to be on the housing ladder however I do wonder how long I can put up with the lack of space in the house (2 bed bungalow)/parking sitch.

@BirdsandBeesmakinghay

Wanted to move since literally the day we moved in. It’s dark inside. One side of the house never gets any sun. The garden is too small. The neighbours are too close and the roads around us are very busy. There’s a huge building project going on up the road which will make it every more congested. I’ve been literally counting the days till we can sell.

I totally relate to this. For me it’s the things about your surroundings you don’t really experience until you’ve actually moved in to the house… like our street is a bit of a weird shape so it joins another road in a circle, then there’s a bigger road off it. This bigger road is used as a shortcut, and our house is right opposite the ending of this bigger road. So constant cars, headlights even late at night because of this ‘shortcut’ (its not even shorter 🤣)

I know it sounds mega petty but it’s little things like that. Our neighbours are really loud too. I can hear the woman of the couple that live there cackling at the TV until the early hours. Fml.

On the market at the moment, moving to be closer to family and family business. If we could literally move this house we would in an instant
Plan is to rent and then build

I wanted to move to secure a good school place but also leverage the equity we had in the house and our savings. No point smiling into a bank book as it’ll be eroded by inflation. The government will want a slice of any asset lying around but it would be a brave chancellor who would suggest taking part of the value of an Englishman’s or woman’s castle. Plus we get to live in a nicer house! Don’t miss the neighbours. Didn’t want to keep the old one as it would be too much hassle to rent out long term and the tax advantages have diminished.

We're in a 3 bed terrace and with DH working from home long term we really need a 4th bedroom/office space. Over a year of him working in our dining room just isn't working.

Our kitchen is tiny, needs replacing (it's a hand built 70s affair where cupboards are too small for modern day plates so the doors don't shut). We also need a new bathroom so wanted a house that's finished.

Being a terrace we are also sick of off street parking so wanted a house with a drive.

I sold the maisonette I bought as a single woman for a more family friendly home after dh and I got married and then had dc1.

I sold the next house to buy a bigger, more spacious house after we had dc3, and, when we were starting to think about secondary schools (the local one was awful, so we wanted to move before dc1 got to Yr5).

We still live here.
If I ever get the energy to start a major declutter, then we will sell this house to move into somewhere smaller as our dc are now adults and won't be living with us long term.

I'm currently selling because we were a family of 4 in a reasonably large 3 bed semi with big garden. DH died in 2008. Eldest DC moved to own place in 2017 and other DC moved to own place in 2019. Nothing to keep me in this area now. House far to big for me and cat and my health is poor. Need to retire to a bungalow nearer to my 2 DC. Release of equity on this house means I can retire 5 years before I get my pension.

We put ours on the market shortly after finding out we were expecting DC2. We were only expecting to stay in our house for 5 ish years, which is exactly how long it had been. We want our DC’s to have a room each, and can’t wait to have a drive after 5 years of on street parking at our terrace! Although it is a parallel drive with a neighbour with no border so I hope we have considerate neighbours unlike the PP above

We've gone on the market this week after 15 yrs of being here. The house is just a bit too small but in a great location for us. We'd planned on an extension but rising costs have made us think about moving.

No offroad parking, and too big internally.

Brexit. I thought ‘Do I still want to live in this country?’decided no, applied for jobs elsewhere, and phoned an estate agent.

We sold our previous house because it was on a busy road and only had one upstairs bathroom in a 4 bed house and thought rather than pay to extend to get an en suite upstairs, we would move to get a quieter road and house with a better layout.

We moved from a perfectly lovely large house because all the neighbours cut down beautiful trees, one by one, and extended massively with glass balconies and full-length, bifold kitchen doors. We ended up totally overlooked by several houses and it no longer felt our sanctuary.
This time the trees are in my garden and going nowhere.