if you were looking at homes today , would you still want to move in to your current home?

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yes for me

Genuinely unsure.
We bought recently. Absolutely love the house itself, great neighbours, peaceful place 20 mins away from city and an equal distance to 'proper countryside'.

BUT it's a bit of a down-market area with a dead town centre. I don't think it's great from an investment perspective. Compared to the buzzy, affluent area we moved from with loads of bars and restaurants, which seems to have seen no effect on prices despite rising mortgage rates.

It's a moot point though. We'd never have been able to afford what we have now, there. We 'could' have bought a small two bed and then climbed the ladder...but I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying off a big mortgage. I'd rather go part-time, take the kids on holiday, etc.

Only time will tell.

A lot of people here regret or otherwise with the beauty of hindsight... Like central London flat owner. But it's Very hard to predict in advance

No it's quite old and needs a lot of work. Getting workmen is difficult now and I wish I was in a much newer house.

I definitely would buy my house again at the time we bought it, love it.

Now though, nearly 20 years on I would choose a smaller, more manageable house/ garden but can’t bring myself to actually downsize from my lovely home, location and quiet garden. The smaller properties in the area all require more compromise that just house size.

I love our house. But it's semi rural and not conducive to elderly living, so now we're twenty years older.. probably not sadly.

Yes. Adore it. In a leafy but lively part of Zone 2 London and the layout of of house suits us perfectly. Can't imagine ever wanting to leave (though am only in my 30s so this may change!).

I pinch myself every day that I got lucky enough (in lots of ways) to buy this place.

No.

I had bad feeling about it, but we really needed to compromise in view of our ages and prices going stupid.

Turns out I was right, but not beacuse of the house but because of one neighbour. If neighbour disappeared in a puff of smoke, I'd be content.

Absolutely yes although we have been here for over a decade so it would be tight financially to buy it at its current value. But we have built a kitchen extension and converted a double garage into 2 gaming study rooms for the children. It was one giant open playroom space originally which quite frankly was amazing when they were little. They are now uni and sixth form age. Covid and lockdown learning made us put up a wall to separate them.

This house will see us through the next 10 years. Great for commuting, lots of job opportunities for Dh, everything on our doorstep shops wise.

It’s being wonderful being the caretaker of my beautiful home.

But we bought it off a lady in her early 70s, who was widowed and moved into a bungalow round the corner.

Everytime we saw her, she would say the house looks alive again, because of family life, and her only regret was not selling up 20years earlier when they could have enjoyed more living and not worrying about high heating bills etc etc when there was only the two of them.

Im actually starting to find bungalows very attractive

I’d love a bungalow now! But all the nice ones - detached with reasonable plot - are snapped up and either demolished or massively extended by builders.

Probably. We are in the middle of selling and buying elsewhere, but could happily stay where we are. We just want more space, cleaner air and a property that reflects where we are at.

No, but then I didn't particularly want to when we bought it in 2019. It ticked all of the boxes for what we needed except 'MM will love it'. It's mostly functional and does what we need so it's fine but OH can't get past me not 'loving it' so is always on the lookout for something else. As a child we moved every few years onto my parents next house project so I've never lived in a house for long or loved a house, it doesn't seem odd to me 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hmm I still like it for what it is but we have a lot more money now than we did when we bought it 5 years ago and are now thinking of upsizing, so probably wouldn’t buy a house of this type now if we didn’t already own it.

the councils are allowing infilling everywhere now, especially if you are close to all amenities.

I was very surprised to see the small farm workers cottage I was born in is now three detached houses each selling for vast sums of money.

This is a really good question and I’m not sure I know the answer.

I love the house, it’s in a great school catchment, and we’re very happy here.

BUT it’s a lot more expensive than we envisaged - it’s old and lots of the rooms are open plan so the energy increases hit us hard, and when our mortgage comes up for renewal we could be left paying more than we can comfortably afford though we’re hoping rates come down / our salaries go up before then.

We had a long debate at the time we bought about staying in London / moving out and might make a different choice if we were looking at it again now. But that doesn’t mean it was the wrong choice then.

Yes, if we had the same budget. I'm still a Rightmove addict and I haven't seen anything else that we could afford that I like anywhere near as much. We're in Zone 3 in London and have an amazingly beautiful garden. Our kitchen is tiny but we will eventually extend.

Undecided.

It's a dream/forever house, everyone that visits says it's amazing (views are extraordinary) and it was a bargain.

But it doesn't feel right yet. Only a few months in, though. And there's a lot of work that needs doing, and it was a total re-location so feeling bit lonely.

I thought I'd be so happy but I'm just overwhelmed...

No. I had visions of an Insta-worthy, cute vintage Victorian terrace with the all important bay window. It’s a cramped money pit with dark narrow hallways and a shit garden. I want a 70s build.

No. I really don’t like where I live. Unfriendly neighbours and a money pit.

Yes.
And no.
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Like many we bought here for schools/pre schools.
And in that way, I think it's been successful.
But I'm back where I grew up, and although the house is nice, enough room, pleasant area, I feel rather disappointed I ended up back here!
I'd like to move once dc2 leaves secondary in 2 years, but at 51, I think the window is closing.
Dh and dc happy here.

Yes.
Great village, lovely large detached house, decent garden (would have liked a little bigger but very rare in this village) quiet street with lovely neighbours, can walk to the school/doctors/pub/shop/park and woods/nature reserve.
We'll definitely be here long term and hopefully in the village when this house becomes too big for us.

No, because it's attached. Previous owner occupiers in the house next door looked after the house and garden and were relatively quiet, but since it's become a rental, that hasn't been the case. Had numerous issues to deal with. Now, I would only consider a detached property.

No. Perfectly happy with the house, detached, spacious so what's not to like? The area is dead, dreary and the traffic on the main roads around is appalling. Nor is the city particularly attractive, best described as mixed. If I could just pick up the house and plonk it where I want it....even in Zone 6 it'd cost nearly twice as much.

Nope. I want a laundry room and a cloaks cupboard in the hall! And bigger bedrooms.

100% yes

We bought it 3 years ago for a bargain price.

We're lucky to have beautiful sea views which make me happy every day!

Most definitely although we only bought it 2.5 years ago as a doer upper and have totally renovated it