What would you do?

[spanielsandfourbyfours]

We have two very young children in a tiny three bed terrace- very top heavy so hardly any space downstairs for toys etc.

Currently have a budget of 900,000 if we moved now which in our area might stretch to a 4 bed semi and the right part of town. Hardly anything is coming on the market though. If we wait 2 or 3 years then we'll probably have a budget of around 1.1-1.2 million as won't be paying such a fortune in childcare and DH is on track to receive some more pay rises- this will get us more of a 'forever' home- 4-5 bed pretty detached. However it would coincide with DC1 starting primary school and we would have to stick it out in our tiny house in the mean time.

What would you do- move now or stick it out a few more years?

@Sssloou

Could you move now to something that had extension potential?

Save the SD, gets you out of the tiny house and eventually gets you the bigger house.

Personally I don’t think that loads of huge bedrooms on other floors is great for little kids - they always want to play near you (kitchen area) and have access to garden from playroom / family room…..you want a bottom heavy house.

Even as teenagers when they do hang out in their bedrooms they have much less stuff then and generally they are out and about doing activities rather than hanging around at home.

If all of the primaries are good it would be prudent to position yourself for the best secondaries in this move (even though a lot can change).

This is all very sensible and something we'd love to do. However literally nothing like this has come on the market here in the last few months sadly.

We're in the fortunate position of not needing to worry much about secondaries as both of the DC will be allowed to attend the school where I teach regardless of where I live, and it's a consistently outstanding school.