Hello everyone.
warning - long post
We’re in a bit of a predicament. We love our house in Willingham and the location but we’re soon to have 2 under 2 and need more space. My mum lives in Newmarket and being shift workers we rely on her for childcare. She will normally stay over in our 3 bed semi. We always planned on extending (we have a massive 154ft garden) but we had estimates of 200k+ to go out and up so we’d have open plan living, a snug/ playroom and bathroom upstairs as well as 3 double beds (currently have 2 doubles and single with bathroom downstairs only). As we weren’t convinced it’s our forever home we decided to test the market and see what we’d get. We’ve had an offer but it’s quite a bit below asking, we’d still be walking away with profit though. We’ve seen a double 4 bed in Balsham that needs work that we could afford and we could make it lovely without any external extensions.
so my issue is this - do we stay in Willingham, where we know its good for toddlers/ kids, all the amenities we need, big garden etc but further from my mum (15 mins more) and we would need to spend around 200k to make it worth it long term and therefore we’d be stuck in that house really. Or do we potentially move to Balsham, get a spacious 4 bed that would probably make more money if we sold again, needs work (decorating, new kitchen, bathroom although liveable right now) but ultimately it’ll cost us more even with the extension to ours. We did look at areas like bottisham but seems to be out of our price range really for what we want/ need.
sorry for the long post, I’m very pregnant at this point and feeling rather stressed and confused!
TIA