Thing that puts you off straightaway looking at a house?

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For me it's open plan type kitchen and living rooms. Like a bedsit!?

I wouldn't ever view a house without proper parking. It has to have either a driveway or proper allocated parking. I'm not bothered about a garage, so many of them are too small for even a normal sized car.
Most other things can be fixed, though there needs to be either a proper upstairs bathroom or enough room for one to be added.

No parking
Noisy area
On a main road
Downstairs bathroom
Loo off kitchen
Only 1 bathroom
No storage space

Front door straight into the front room.

Any neighbours whatsoever thanks

Our last house had original windows over 200 years old, they were quite beautiful. We have horrid UPVC now so unattractive however efficient they are.

Being on a main road.
No front garden (I at least wand a buffer yard)
Everything painted grey.
Open plan.
Smell of smoke.
No back garden (I want at least somewhere I can put a few pot plants).
Downstairs bathroom.
Off feeling about sellers.

These were all the no-gos when I was a FTB last year.

Gravel driveway, trees in the garden, staircase in the living room.

Our non-negotiables had to be whittled down to almost nothing as we struggled so much to afford anything in the areas we liked last year, but the ones that stuck (or I discovered through many viewings):

front door opening into the living room,
bathroom accessed from the kitchen,
on a fast main road,
neighbours with rubbish dumped outside,
smell/evidence of smoking

Our house has a couple of the common 'crimes' on here, but I also haven't seen mention of a couple of its flaws I always worry will be a problem when we come to sell again in a few years time, so that's good...

Our first house was near a school and it was brilliant. We were out at work when the morning and afternoon traffic was going on. Every evening and weekend (except about twice a year) was totally peaceful.

Agree about open plan. I don't mind an open plan kitchen but I need to be able to close the door on the living room.

No parking or a shared driveway would be a deal breaker for me.

I've also rejected houses that have all the neighbours looking into the back garden or where you look out the back door and see windows all around you.

A big garden would be a problem for me too as we're not gardeners at all. Just some outside space would be fine.

After living in a house where you have to walk through the living room to get to the kitchen, I'd be looking for access from the hallway in our next house.

So many mean-spirited comments on this thread. Beggars can’t be choosers and in the current housing market you may have to buy what you afford and compromise, though that’s a dirty word on some MN threads.

Be nice if we could all afford naice houses with hallways and multiple loos and bathrooms. But the reality is we don’t all live in big houses.

Our front door opens onto the street, when you go in you go straight into the main downstairs room. We have no bath. We have pets (they don’t smell). So that’s removed most of you as prospective sellers.

We would move if we could afford to, we’ve outgrown our house, but it’s been looked after and is in a naice area.

Modern housing estates, impractical houses( no storage, no entrance hall for coats, shoes etc)

soiled mattress/burning cross in the front garden. Neighbours openly drinking super strength lager in the street.

Open plan, only one toilet, shared drive.

Open plan, only one toilet, shared drive.

Anything within 1/4 of a mile of another property.

England flags on neighbouring properties, constant barking dogs, loud shouting from the area. Anything else I can live with or change but not the neighbours.

And shared drives.

I hate houses where there’s a dining table and chairs in the living room. Also, downstairs bathrooms give me the ick.

Black! Black tiles, flooring, walls, wardrobes. Same with most bold colours. Reds another one I have.

No garden
No parking
No storage
dodgy looking neighbours especially ones with dogs

Door opens on to the footpath, is an out side one.
Inside damp, can be a big headache, that would put me off, black mold. That's nasty stuff.
I don't have a big budget, so would expect some problems. Wooden windows, not great, but you knock the price down by a few grand, same if the kitchen needs doing up, or if you need a new boiler. This is something that an estate agent, who was selling my parents farm, told my parents to do, when buying a house. (they hadn't brought a house before, they built the farm house) so if a house has issues, use these to bring the price down. If you don't like the layout, knock on the walls, if it's hollow, it's only a stud wall, so could be removed. Stud walls can be added, just ask a builder, for some ideas of price. Then when you are looking at houses and want to add a room oor remove a wall, you have an idea on price, so you can ask for a discount.
Big cracks in the wall, can be a result of subsidence, which could be expensive to fix, or structural issues can also be expensive.

Open plan
North or Wast facing garden

Shared driveway
Open plan kitchen/ lounge
Overlooked back garden

To be clear, if I'm looking at houses that are nearly half a million, I would expect windows to have been glazed within the last decade. Hope that makes sense. Nothing worse than an expensive house with old windows that will need updating.

You'd be looking a long time round here then.

I don't think anything would genuinely stop me looking as in reality every house I've bought has had to be a compromise but things which make me very wary are grey windows, black tiles, black kitchen units or open plan. If the description of the house says 'bringing the outdoors in' I think well I live in England which is often cold and rainy so of course I want to keep it outside! Makes me not a big fan of bifolds tbh.