House sold and relisted under 2 years

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Would you buy a house that completed 18months ago? does it ring alarm bells? what sort of things would you be looking out for?

last sale before that was 6 years ago, the house has had one new set of neighbours in that time. It’s a house we bid on but lost.

Listing at 4% more than they paid 18months ago. House is a larger 3 bed 1930’s semi with garage and garden. Estate agent said they’re upsizing.

@BlueSkyBlueLife @MixingPlaydough noooo I mean, we’d have to sell our current house which we bought 18 months ago 😂

DH doesn’t really want to move. He has bad vibes from the stress of buying in 2022 and us ‘losing’ that house was part of it. But he said he’ll go with an open mind

Ah I was wondering when you said selling after 18 months what the point of moving was. 🤣

Ah that makes more sense!!

If you only moved where you are, then I’m with your dh. Unless there is a REALLY good reason why your current house can’t work for you at all, I’d stay out fir a bit longer. (For the same reasons I mentioned)

@BlueSkyBlueLife DH has said he doesn’t think it’s worth moving

We’re in a small 3 bed semi. All the rooms in the other house are a little bit bigger (I think 20-30sqm overall), there’s a garage as opposed to a shed, the garden is west facing (ours is north) and it’s 9mins shorter walk to the station. Also Nearer to more parks. And these are all things we can’t change in our house.

But the risk of it being the neighbours is a big one for him. We had a nightmare experience with our neighbours when we first moved. Tv music and shouting at all hours daily. We went out most days just to avoid it but then would get woken up at 2 or 3am. Luckily they moved on and the new ones have been fine.

I’m in the middle of this - we bought a house around 5 months ago. We knew after 1 week of living here we had made a mistake a plan to list it for sale later this year. There is nothing wrong with the house but we moved across the country and have realised the location doesn’t work for us. It’s a rural property and we want to be closer to city life as it’s where both DH and I work. We won’t be putting the house on for much more than we bought it for as it’s not a profiteering exercise and hopefully the estate agent can reassure any potential buyers it’s a genuine reason for the sale. So as other posters have said people move for all sorts of reasons so I wouldn’t discount it on that alone!

So you’re suspicious of people selling after 18 months, but you’re also going to sell after 18 months!

I can't comment about your location, but 4% isn't much increase, growth in some properties in UK gone up more than 4% in the last 12months without doing anything.
unless seller overpaid when purchased the property.

Haha yes, my feelings on my house are exactly why I’m suspicious!

Small Update - estate agent cancelled our viewing because the vendor said proceedable buyers only, which is fair.

now I wonder if we’ll be stuck in this cycle forever 😅 we won’t want to go through the hassle of listing and selling if there’s nothing available and we won’t be able to view if we’re not listed

Just moved into a house 3 weeks ago and both husband and I are already saying “we’ve made a huge mistake”. We’ve decided that we’ll stay a couple of years, fix the many niggles we’ve discovered since moving here and may then look for something else, smaller and more modern.
We’d always thought we wanted to live in an older house, but after a few days we both realised it’s not for us. Nothing whatsoever wrong with the house, it’s beautiful, just not quite right for us.
If we could turn back time and not have gone through the process, we would 🙁

@TheCatsBlanket we realised pretty soon that we’d made a mistake too 😞. Bought a detached house but the neighbours have noisy dogs, the house is either freezing or boiling and it’s just not right. Trouble is DH won’t move before we’ve been here for 10 years (another 2.5 to go) for cost reasons whereas I’d rather cut our loses and go.

@AvonCallingBarksdale the way I feel at the moment, I might try and stay for another 2 years. Unless I find as time goes by that I become more settled, my mindset today is I want out but, for financial reasons any sooner would be foolish 🙁

I sold my flat 18 months after moving in. It was a chain free purchase that took 316 days to complete due to the seller's incompetence (but I really loved the flat and it was better than anything else on the market) While I was waiting for completion I met my now partner and only actually lived in the lovely flat for about 6 months before I moved in with him (he had a house in a better area) Made a 20% profit selling the flat and we ended up buying something together. So basically there could be a very genuine reason why it's back on the market. I'd arrange a viewing with the seller present if possible and just ask them and judge their sincerity. Don't they have to disclose if there's an issue with a neighbour as part of the legal process?

Yes, I did!

It depends if the reason given matches.

The family I bought from had just left the army and were moving to Spain to buy a bar.

No worries for me.

I had, at one time, houses both sides of me selling at the same time…i am a good neighbour, honestly! The two ‘for sale’ boards did have me questioning myself tho….🤣

I sold a house after 18 months, nothing to do with the house (very nice) or the neighbours (bit weird but not bad people or bad neighbours), we just had to relocate and decided to press on rather than delay.

Can you not make the new house more 'modern, it would probably be a good investment?
I cried when I walked into our new house and it wasn't with joy! We've been here 20 years and I love it. :)
Give it some mre time and consider what really bugs you and how it could be changed. If that's not possible I would move, who wants to be unhappy when it can be solved by moving.

@sbplanet We have so many things that we want/ need to do to the house to make it feel like home. We’ve only been here 3 weeks and the list keeps growing, so I suppose it’s all a big mish mash in our heads at the moment. Finding contractors to do the work is proving difficult too, all the good ones are busy for many weeks, but I’m sure we’ll get where we want eventually. Previous jobs that had been done by prior owners are proving to be cheap and shoddily done which you don’t notice upon viewing, and when I think back to the house we left to come here, I could cry.
How did you get beyond not liking your house to loving it? I’m willing to try anything to feel better about this whole situation and to begin feeling more positive

@TheCatsBlanket @sbplanet Our last house - which I thought was the best of the best - I walked in and vendors had left us with a gas leak and once their furniture was out it looked so much worse. - I know it would take some doing upping and a new kitchen but it looked so much worse that I thought it would. Reckon it took me about a year to feel at home but 13 years later I shed a tear at leaving it.

Moving Is stressful. I would always advise give it a bit of time.

Originally I think a lot was to do with the shock of moving, the change. But I think we had the advantage of moving to an area we wanted to live in and a house that was 'functional'. It was 20 years ago and we wanted to live in the countryside, I hate towns now. :D
So I've always concentrated on how the place functions. So it now has two loos! Very handy as the OH has IBS. It has a drive, on street parking used to drive me mad, some bugger always parked outside your house! It has an open fire, which I love. The fireplace hearth was horrendous, made of fake garden stone bricks :D We had no central heating or upstairs toilet, the kitchen was 70s style, but it was where we wanted to live. Oh and an old shonky greenhouse in the garden. But a real greenhouse, cool! :)
I think you're further along the 'what I'd like from my house' ladder than we were then.
Don't think back too much, unless it's to think 'we could do that here'. Although we've never 'gotten back' the parquet we had in a previous house. We're about to go with LVT, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!
I guess too as we get older I become even more aware of what is important. I do have to surpress a giggle at some of the threads on here agonising over which shade of white paint will make someone's life complete - but I've been there too, just not now.
Good luck, but try and keep your eye on what is important. Why did you buy it? And if the house really doesn't make you happy try and figure out the best way to make some money back to pay for the move.
Good luck. :)

@sbplanet We bought it because upon viewing, we loved it. It’s an older house than the one we left, built around 1938 and the one we left was built 1995. We’d always wanted an older house in a better location, so here we find ourselves…..it’s certainly more rural which is lovely and the neighbours so far have been very welcoming and friendly, so I’m trying to understand what it is that makes me sad.
I hope in time I will come to love it, but if in a year or so I still feel similar then we’ll look to consider a move again. Here’s hoping 🤞🏻and Thank you for your words of support.

But what did you love about it? I've lived in older houses for the first half of my life and they are different to modern houses for sure, but what they have that new houses don't is the ability to be both. So you can have the character that old houses have and also adapt the functional side like say bathrooms and kitchens to have a modern skin.
I think there's maybe some emotional loss stuff going on with the move that you need to process, especially when the new place isn't quite what you'd hoped. Or that could be total bollox! :D

Honestly I’m not sure exactly what we loved, at the viewing it seemed perfect with a lovely south facing back garden which our previous house didn’t have.
I think we were swept along by it all, and really should have stepped back from the initial euphoria of how it might be once moved in.

I'm trying hard to get that feeling back and know I will once a bit more time has elapsed

Do you think maybe you're still dealing with the old house loss? It sounds a bit daft doesn't it, but I don't know why I cried when I saw our new house when we moved in. There's lots of emotions involved.

Well anyway Spring is on the way and you'll be able to make plans to enjoy your lovely south facing back garden. :) Will you grow veggies or maybe have an outdoor kitchen area? I'm excited for you, I loved when we had our garden done over last year. :)

Funnily enough I was going through photos on my phone earlier and saw tons of pictures of us in the old house, and it didn’t make me too sad about it which is something. We’ve got some plans in place one of which is to get the whole kitchen remodelled, it wasn’t an original idea but I’ve recently been bequeathed some money and although it’s come from sadness due to an elderly relative dying, it will help enormously in renovations sooner than planned.
just chatting with husband, we’ve also decided to get a decorator in to do some work as opposed to us attempting it on our days off, so that will be a pressure taken off us too.
We realised too, that our previous house did not look anywhere near as good when we moved in as it did when we left, and took a good few years and a lot of ££££££’s so we have hope that we can do it again with this house 😊
I do intend planting some veggies in the garden now that spring is coming, yes.
But I want to say thank you for your kind words and knowing how I feel about my predicament. It certainly helps to know I’m not alone with the way I feel and there must be plenty more people in similar situations.

I really hope it all goes well, I'm sure you'll be enjoying it all soon. :) I'm slightly jealous of you getting a new kitchen. Good luck, :)