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

My house suited the young family i had.
Now they are older i think id buy a a different house if i could deal with the stress and magic up the moving costs.
We have a very cramped upstairs and id like 3 double bedrooms.

There were very good reasons for buying it at the time (detachedness being the main one) and we are close to the station in an affluent London suburb with great schools, shops, green spaces etc. It worked perfectly for the stage of life we were in then. We could probably stay here indefinitely but as the dc are now in late teens and twenties it's starting to feel too big for us. Assuming the youngest goes to university as planned next year, we'll have 4 empty bedrooms in term time (unless older dc start to come back). So no, I wouldn't be buying something like this in my fifties!

Yes but I wish I had been in the right place to buy one on the same street for much less!

But I am so glad I made the move now as I doubt I could do it when I needed to later on. Despite it needing a lot of work I absolutely love it and I am never leaving!

Yes. Bought 2 years ago and although it’s not perfect, it definitely has the potential to be with some renovations. There’s nothing I’ve seen on Rightmove since which is better than my house in this price range in one of our desired locations. Although not sure we’d be able to afford the house now with the ridiculous increase in house prices.

Great question. Yes, it was a practical choice, affordable, 2 mins from amazing school (which has turned out to be even better than we hoped). Lovely neighbours, lovely neighbourhood. It's not my dream house but I've made it nice. Wouldn't be affordable today either.

Yes. It's perfect for DD, cat and me. Everyone who comes there is surprised how much bigger it is inside and how cosy it is. Great neighbors, great transport and shopping links. I won't be leaving any time soon.

No.

It was perfect when we bought it 20 years ago when we got married. We intended to be here 5 years.

Recession, unemployment & marriage ending has changed all that.

Given the current housing crisis (Ireland), I'm lucky to have somehow held onto it, and as I reach final divorce hearings soon, I hope that will continue despite the unfairness of having to pay off my feckless ex.

Kids would love to live in the same broad area but nicer part of it / nicer estate, and is love a house with more privacy.

At one point I wanted the impossible, like period property, sea views & all that! But all that seems unimportant.

I'm trying very hard to make this house our home & to work for us. We are luckier than many so I'm trying to appreciate that.

No because we were broke students when we bought this place, now our household income is almost 4 times higher. It served us well the last 5 years but we'll be up-sizing in the next 18 months.

No I wouldn't for a few reasons one being that I would like more privacy and not to be overlooked ..was perfect when we moved here 17 years ago new house in a new estate spacious inside having lots of houses and people around didn't bother me then but now as I said I want privacy 😊

No. We didn't know the area well and went for something within budget for particular school catchments, but I now know that we have a lot more flexibility over location than I realised. It's an OK house that suits our needs at the moment but I won't be sad about leaving eventually.

Yes definitely, but we couldn't afford it! The house across the road from us which is actually smaller than ours sold last month for £200k more than we paid for ours in 2020!

Love the area but the house is too small now, perfect for someone living on their own.

Yes. We have adored the house for all the 28 years we've owned it. And if I could move it 200 miles north, I would. But as that's impossible, we shall sell in due course and move instead. Fortunately its value has increased in line with the markets, so we shall hope to find something that suits, a little smaller and with a much flatter garden for our increasing age. And the BoMaD will give some of any capital released to DC for a bigger deposit.

I would have preferred a 3 bed flat instead but i love our area and for that same price, I don't think I could have gotten anything better. If I had the same deposit as I did in 2019, it would have been unwise to take on a large mortgage for the sake of an extra bedroom. So I think I would have made the same decision as I did back then if I haven't had 4 years of overpaying the mortgage as I do now.

Indeed even then I was looking at 3 bed flats and trying to make offers for it, but at that time, they only gave us a mortgage based on DH's salary (due to my visa expiring in 3 years) so we couldn't afford it. Now I have ILR, its a different story.

25 years ago yes... moved in with 3 Dc's / 2 x Step-Dc's that spent a lot of time here/4 x Gparents... All changed now as things inevitably do...

Only one DS25 at home, only one parent left🥺 & house "too big" - even though I love it...

Just spent this morning filling charity-bags/chucking stuff out from a life I don't live anymore (some of I don't WANT to live anymore...) no more big family dinners & by choice : entertaining of friends/not much "real" cooking/I don't invite people round

All natural evolution - but probably too many "ghosts" now after bereavement so will probably down-size anyway in the next couple of years as it's a responsibility looking after it all

No (username checks out lol)…..the house is lovely but I don’t like living on the edge of town. We’ve become lazy slobs that drive everywhere, my husband drives to the gym!

We had a good 20% deposit and got a 5 year fix at 1.99%, in hindsight we should have stretched ourselves a bit more and got something in a more central/better location. We’ve both had payrises since then and I’ve moved into a job I love and want to progress in, so it would have still been affordable. We were being very conservative when we bought this house….I do like having a cheap mortgage though so swings and roundabouts!

It eats money in repairs.

But I love the location.

I would discourage my family from filling it with crap though. We have SO MUCH decluttering to do.

I'd try and find one that needed less work doing. But if that wasn't possible then yes. Area was a big driver for us. We wanted to stay in the village we'd been renting in.

Yes

Yes, but couldn't afford it now
Sea views and country views
Very popular little known seaside town so we'd be priced out completely as we'd need a lump sum to live off

Yes, 100%. It’s actually better than we thought when we bought it. We had some reservations about the street but love it now and have incredible neighbours. We also didn’t appreciate the proximity within the village as we didn’t know it that well and it turns out it’s actually perfectly located for the places we go most often. Plus I wasn’t completely clear on how some elements of the layout would work but they are actually perfect for the way we live in the house.

There wasn't much on the market when we bought our house,otherwise I'd have gone for something that needed less work.

Not if it was in the same state it was in when we bought it, no!

Yes, although it's a money pit.