Have you ever regretted a house purchase?

[Curiouscatt]

What did you end up doing?, stay or sell up?

Yep hated it the day I moved in, hated it ever since. Don't like the house, the road, the town or the whole county. DH loves it and cannot face moving (he has a LOT of stuff) the reason we moved, to be nearer grandchildren hasn't really worked either. Its shit, I would sell it tomorrow if it was up to me; but its accept the house, or get divorced. It will be 2 years this month. I have really tried, but its just not home and never will be.

Yes. I hate this house and town. But it ticks all the boxes of what we need for the future. If we could pick it up and move it then it would be fab. Dh is meh about it. We’ve looked for another house, but all those we that we like don’t tick any of the bows for things we need in our future and neither of us want to move house twice more. This move was supposed to be the final one.
Plus there is the small issue of nextdoors house (they’ve finally done a runner!!!) it needs work doing to it, hopefully nice new neighbours will make it secure and improve things so we could sell without issues. (unsupported chimney stack to name just one of next doors problems and there are so many more which would hinder our sale).

I hated my house the day we moved in. Five years later we are still here. It has lots of advantages but I don’t feel happy here. We keep talking about moving but don’t know where to go. It’ll be a huge upheaval , very expensive and I’m scared stiff of making another mistake. So just talk endlessly about it and go round and round in circles.

Same here hate this house I’m in been here 4 years can’t wait to move but neighbour house probably will make ours hard to sell .
So very unhappy here . I would be happy to take a loss but my husband is very reluctant to do that have we have spent thousands doing it up .

Yes, hate our house, thought I would love it here. To be fair the area is lovely and has its advantages, but the house itself depresses me. We bought it 7 years ago. Realistically we can’t move again for another 4 years at least. Very tricky to move in our town though, it’s very overpriced, thing is this town is where our friends are and we wouldn’t want to move away.

I immediately regretted buying my last house due to problem neighbours. We weren't in a financial position to move again for a few years but eventually we got out of there and I'm so much happier in my new house. Nuisance neighbours can really wreck your mental health, its like you're constantly on edge waiting for the next incident.

Jeeez everyone hate their house in this thread??

I’ve been there and it’s soul destroying.

Given the title of the OP people aren't going to come on and say 'No, I love my house' are they?

Yes. Lovely house, horrendous (attached) neighbours, we lasted 4 years, so pleased we moved!

Purchase #1, studio flat. There were two for sale in the same block (new build). Lost out on my first choice, but got the other one. It was fantastic, until a nightmare neighbour moved into the flat opposite. Oh how I wished I'd got that first flat on the other side of the building.

Purchase #2, (running from aforementioned nightmare neighbour). V unusual (in the area) 1 bed house. Lovely, would have been perfect if I hadn't wanted kids. Unfortunately I launched into that with more optimism than sense, and the house rapidly became a problem.

Purchase #3, (the quest for space). 5 bed house (2 large 3 small bedrooms). Chosen by my husband, due to relocation and other circumstances I never saw it in person. Cried the day we moved in, still hate it 4 years on. Area is OK, but less nice than our old one. House is (by my standards) dilapidated, but we are very very slowly fixing it.

So yeah, never had a perfect home after leaving my parents. I would absolutely love to live in a modern house again, but no way could I face moving with kids yet again, it's just to grim to contemplate. So cold crappy house in darkest suburbia (I can't drive) it is.

Gosh that was cathartic.

well she is asking a question to which someone can say no I don’t regret having purchased my house

Neighbours seem to be the biggest issue, or their dog/s 😔

1st house was bought in a tight knit village because it was all we could afford. Hated it. Vendor had tarted it up to sell. I was pregnant and it did the job. Area was deprived, school was backward and house was very poorly built and maintained. Neighbours were all lovely though. House was put back on the market within 12mo. Main reason apart from the house itself was the school. It was so backward my daughter struggled to spell and read for years after.

3rd house was a repossession and as I'd moved 400 miles for work I didn't really know the area. It was a high crime area and the house itself was awful. The ndn were OK, not noisy or anything, but they had 7 cats that all used our garden as a toilet. She had one litter tray for them and would walk past her bin to empty it in the street bushes puke We stayed for 5 years before moving on. Of all our houses that is the one I can barely picture. Absolutely hated it.

Just to say 5 years ago I moved 40 mile away from that town and now live in a lovely rural tourist town that we love and just bought a 100yo bungalow which is our dream home. Can hear the attached neighbours, dog noise, cold rooms, condensation, maintenance issues etc. But still the best house we've owned on a lovely quiet street.

Yes, this was the case with me.

I hated the first house we bought when first married. I'd allowed by husband to browbeat me into it. It was fairly cheap and a doer-upper. I did not like the area or living on a building site for years (seemed like a lifetime), it was very small, cold before we put in central heating and there was little privacy from neighbours. I don't need to tell you we had to spend a lot on it. It was a real bone of contention.

We moved eventually with one child to a bigger house that was warm and had a decent length drive so insulated from passers-by and neighbours (though I know and like my neighbours very much, on one side are people who lived there before we moved in our children played together and remain friends as adults). I was so happy and still live in my second house, thirty-nine and a bit years later.

I have do far done 12 months in our first time buyer home, I do regret buying it . Discovered it had rats after moving in, spent a lot of time and money to eradicate the issue ( drains surveys, drain repair etc) the trauma of it all meant I have never settled, ( owing to my phobia of them) even now I am very jumpy if I hear a noise.

The saving grace has been that most of our neighbours are lovely, but I will be glad when we move, my plan is to upgrade the bathroom in the spring and put it on the market in June.

I loved our first house, little 2 up 2 down but suited us and I loved it. Didn’t know the neighbours really all worked as it was an estate of starter homes, but we were newly married and didn’t need anyone . Cried buckets when we moved

moved to a larger house to start a family and be nearer my parents. We started family and yes nice being near parents, but hated the house, thought I would grow to it ticked all the boxes and the neighbours were lovely still friends 2 moves on. But it never felt like home

moved up again, needed more room for the family and ran an office based business from home and needed bigger office. Loved that house, DH didn’t just indifferent to it, but again upset to leave

this house, downsized big time, from very large family home to 5 bedroom bungalow. It’s perfect, beautiful big landscape gardens, tucked away but walking distance to a lovely town, lovely big living room with conservatory, dinning room, study, beautiful kitchen dinner, family bathroom and 2 en-suites. It perfect for the three of us and plenty large enough for when the rest of the family visit. We moved here last year, and yes we are still working on updating and making it ours, but I love it so very happy

@SuperFi rats sound absolutely awful.
What is the market like near you? I’m hoping to put ours up during Springtime. First house here too, but big mistake.

The market is patchy where we are, not a lot coming on the market, hoping that changes in the spring.
I am glad we are not renting anymore and do count my blessings that we are home owners, just wish had chosen better!
Also we have a thorough drain survey before purchase in future ( most rat infestations are caused by drain issues, as was ours).