2 houses, both in the same area of my city. Both 4-bed detached, similar prices, and need a similar amount of work doing.
House 1 - bigger house and bigger garden with 4 good sized bedrooms. On a nice road, but it’s a bit of a through road and just off a busy main road. The garden is NW facing so a bit apprehensive about lack of sun. Even though the garden is bigger than house 2, it’s still not large. In the catchment for the school we want to send DC but it would be a short drive (probably less than 5 mins but too far to walk to school and back again to drive to work).
House 2 - on a lovely street, opposite a very quiet park, at the end of a cul-de-sac, so very little car traffic. Smaller than house 2, with a smaller garden, but the garden is south facing so will have sun all day. There is a box room so we would need to reconfigure bedroom sizes upstairs. Close to the school that we want to send our DC (we could walk in 5 mins), but far enough away to not get the school traffic and parking issues.
They're both very similar other than what I’ve listed above. Any insights to help us choose?