Hi All,
I’m working myself up in to a tizz so any reassurance gratefully received!
We bought our dream home 4 years ago but after moving in we discovered it needed a lot of work doing to it. Four years in, spending pretty much every weekend fixing and renovating the house it’s taken it’s toll and during a particularly stressful period of renovation last year (cowboy builder who damaged a lot of the house, courts etc) we decided that this year we’d sell it.
There are other reasons to sell- builder lives nearby and secondary schools being two! We have a great grammar nearby but the state options are woeful and with two, albeit bright, children we decided to cut out losses and move somewhere with better state options.
It’s been on the market for a month and we had an offer in the first week. We’ve now accepted an offer on the condition that we have time to find a house but the EA is pushing to get things moving. We have an area in mind and I’ve been saving houses on Rightmove for months ready to start viewing them.
However, now it’s come to booking viewings we’re finding big problems with each of them and we’re getting pretty disheartened. Problems include no dining room, no space for home office (we both work from home), busy road to the front, tiny kitchen, requires full renovation. The other issue is we’re selling a large period property and a lot of the options coming up are new builds on large housing estates which wouldn’t work for us.
We’ve seen a couple of houses that look lovely but one is a bit overpriced in my opinion (has sat on the market for 8 months) and the garden isn’t attached to the house.
Three people who viewed ours said they’d accepted offers at least 6 months before and they were still looking. Is this just the case now? Should we expect it to take months to find somewhere?
Also if anyone can recommend somewhere in a nice village, access to good schools, period 3-4 bed house with space for a home office for £550k it would be much appreciated.