If you missed out on "perfect" house how long until another came along ?

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Just that really ,saw a house that ticked all the boxes just before we listed ours , made plans to immediately put ours on the market but the house was offered on within 48 hours of listing - disappointing but expected .

So the question is if you missed out on a great house how long until something just as good or better came up? Or did it not and you had to make compromises?

There was nothing for a few weeks before or the few weeks since this house that even comes remotely close to it and we are looking everywhere within a 10 mile radius -not set on one particular town/village

Thanks!

At the moment there are a lot more "perfect" homes coming to market and staying on the market longer than normal so you might be pleasantly surprised.

We didn’t buy our dream house and nothing has ever come close to it. The issue was it was on a main road that was exceptionally busy, it really was perfect though. I walked up and down the road even in non rush hour 400 cars passed. I looked at a council report on air quality and it was terrible on this road.

We live in our very nice but not dream home but probably 10 cars an hour max go by and that’s when it’s rush hour I think since I woke up at 7.30 not one car has gone past.

About four weeks after not getting the house I wanted, I was in the estate agent dropping off paperwork for our house sale they asked how the search was going, I said I'd not seen one thing I liked since. They went through my criteria and then gave me brochures (pre rightmove days) of what fitted the brief and what nearly fitted the brief. I'd previously discounted a house because it didn't have enough bedrooms but was convinced to go along and realised it could work with some changes. It was also a better location for us. Moved 8 weeks later!

We had an offer accepted on our perfect house but it fell through after a week (seller decided he couldn't sell). I found another I loved about two weeks later. DH was unsure because he was so invested in the first house but agreed to put an offer in after sleeping on it for a few days. It's been about 5 weeks since our offer and DH now agrees that the second house works better for us anyway.

About 3 months, and it was a much better house for us. Better location and lay out. The other house was lovely and I still sometimes drive past it - but there was stuff that would actually have got annoying and we'd have had to chance. I think I also wanted the lifestyle of the people who lived there IFYSWIM...

Hmmm I can think of two other "perfect" houses we definitely wanted before making a move.

First one we loved it enough to view and plan to list ours, but established we couldn't afford it at the time, so that was it. We didn't even go to market. Gorgeous house.

Second time was 4 months later, we loved it and immediately went on the market specifically to try and get it, but it sold before our viewings started. We then came off market and that was it.

12m later we saw this house, loved it, rushed onto the market ourselves and got it.

So in our case not many came up that lit a fire - but we weren't set on moving. I kept an eye on RM and a couple of others did come up in that time that we'd have happily gone for, had we actively stayed on the market wanting/needing a move.

Of the three I think this one is the One, I love it. Definitely not sorry we missed the second (which we were GUTTED about at the time!)