What do you think of this house (video enc)

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Hi all
Just wondering what your thoughts are to get some objectivity!
House in a lovely sought after area of Birmingham

Thoughts and honest opinions appreciated

No time or patience to view an 8 min video if I'm honest. is there a listing with photos instead?

Good point thank you - here it is.

www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/61487342/

very narrow

I think there are some very good points - it looks cosy and could be made into a lovely home. But a few queries. Could you fit a family sized table in the dining room at the back? The kitchen might be quite tight in terms of space and storage - is it big enough for the number of bedrooms? And the roof conversion - personally I'd have gone for one big bedroom and ensuite. Are the two rooms large enough to be usable? Is the downstairs space sufficient for that many bedrooms?

You'd need to work on the decor and finish. The carpet doesn't look great? Bit the bones are good. It could be a very nice home.

Not a fan to be honest. Why is the extension so narrow? The layout is really not practical and bedrooms are small and awkward shapes. This will surely be very difficult to sell?

I don’t like it, that isn’t a garden room it’s a utility room that is strangely swanky for the house.
It also has bizarre lighting arrangements and the hallway screams of having had anything of any interest ripped out.

I really like it! Definitely cosmetic things I'd change, but that's what i'd want and expect to do anyway buying any home. But the overall layout would really suit my family and the way we live.

lovely house. My only concern is the extension at the back is very narrow and has the washing machine and loo there! I would be planning to fill in the side return to make a wider kitchen diner - but im being fussy!

Love the floors and has kerbside appeal. Great schools in that area.

Thanks! Trying to work out if we can fit two cars in the drive is the next battle

I like it and King’s Heath is a nice area,have a few friends who live there.Plenty of scope at the front to make more room for parking.

Why is the washing machine in the garden room or alternatively why put patio doors in your utility room?

We have houses with a similar layout like that in my area (just a few junctions south along the M5 to where this is!). I think this house looks lovely. Beautiful floor downstairs and light rooms.

Four good-sized bedrooms, not three rooms and a poky box room. Toilet downstairs and up. Rooms are a decent width.

I instantly thought the same as a PP - I'd be inclined to widen the kitchen and fill in with a side extension to make a beautiful kitchen/diner.

And I def think you could get two cars on that drive.

How quickly are properties going in this area - do you need to move fast?

Lots of light which is important for me. Pretty good bank canvas. About five times bigger than my house, so who am I to criticise?! Good luck if you do decide to buy it, it looks like the sort of house someone could be very happy in x

I'd say it's probably still overpriced despite 2 price reductions, vendors could be a PITA if they have an overinflated sense of value.

It wouldn't work for me, I don't like narrow houses and thoroughfares, I don't know the area so can't comment..

Thanks all. Really appreciate your views!
Area is really nice, probably the best area under £800-1 mill in that neck of the woods!
Sounds like biggest issue is the narrowness in terms of family life
It's huge though, 152m2! I'm thinking kitchen extension in medium term....

There’s not a lot of scope to extend the weird garden room / utility room into a proper kitchen diner without losing garden access from the living room, which I think would be a shame as you then have to trek through the whole downstairs to get to the garden.

But if it’s the best on the market within your budget, it’s a nice house, and spacious enough that you could make it work for you without an extension.

I know the area too and agree it is lovely. The house is a blank canvas isnt it, not much inspiring about it at the minute just a standard Victorian house. I think you could make it lovely though. I would deffo put a new kitchen in and knock through. I live in a similar layout and it is fine, one huge lounge and a kitchen. Just a shame the attached house spoils the character.

I like it! Lots of good Character, seems fairly spacious, most rooms you could just move straight in without much work really.

500k for that That said, it's potentially a very pretty house. Stuff I noticed:

-Bundles of wires along the skirting board in the front room, what's going on there?
-Magnolia walls 😝 ditto the carpet & bathroom floor tiles.
-That washing machine! If room is that tight, I'd get rid of the downstairs loo, because anyone using it will be heard peeing anyway & put the washing machine & a tumble drier stack in there instead.
-Dining area looks tiny.
-Gravel chips in the back garden, what's hiding underneath?
-The loft. Unless you're going to put two small kids up there, I'd knock it through into one room. And if small dc were going up there I'd want to make the windows safe.
-The kitchen is narrow but that's how it is with those houses. A rear re-build would be more liveable but perhaps unaffordable.
-I'm not a fan of boxed-in pipes (kitchen), unless I'm mistaken.

Here If I've got this link right, are the pictures of the sale of the house opposite, no.15. If you scroll down the page you can see the interior & why it justified it's higher price.

Very true. Hard to work out how much this is worth in relation to that especially with the way prices have increased... I'd say that kitchen extension would cost ?50k in today's money

We're going back to see it again today... fingers crossed the 'feeling' is there...

I wouldn't spend £500k on it (and I'm used to house prices in expensive areas).
The ground floor layout isn't great - is there any storage for things like coats, shoes, hoover etc? The kitchen needs replacing and is very narrow for a 4 bed house. I don't understand why they didn't incorporate the garden room properly into the kitchen as that seems like a bit of a tagged on after thought. Also the downstairs loo is practically in the kitchen (yuck).
The sloping ceilings in the bedrooms would drive me mad, I don't think there's as much space in those rooms once you try to fit furniture into the eaves as you might expect.
I suspect it possibly needs more work doing than appears on the surface and it doesn't have any scope for expansion. If you're going to squeeze 2 cars on the drive then you're going to be forever shuffling them on/off to get the one at the back out.

this, all of it. Is Brum REALLY that expensive?