Thoughts on this property please? Link included!!

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https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/168588044

We’d be selling our house, also a 3 bed detached bungalow, of a similar value to buy this. I love the look of it, the character, but unsure on the E rated EPC!

Things I don’t like - smaller living room than we currently have although it looks cosey.
Only 1 bathroom, we have an en-suite in current house.
Things I like - bigger garden, utility room, bigger kitchen/breakfast than current house.
looks bright and welcoming.

Um - it’s better from the back and inside. On first glance it looks a bit Lego like but it is a bungalow so I guess that excuses the price.

I think it’s sweet! The only thing I don’t like is that awful bunged on utility room which looks totally out of place as it doesn’t go with the rest of the building. I’d get rid of that. It’s at the top of an e rating so you could improve on that hopefully quite easily. My last house was rated D but was really warm in winter so ratings can be misleading.

Charming to me. Has a great feel about it, I really like it, and it's detached which is great. Good price I think, for what you are getting. Plenty of room for add ons, and scope for a dormer attic room I'd say if you needed it.

I really like it. I would probably convert the garage into living space and you could probably include a second bathroom in there.

The house doesn’t flow, really bad floor plan.
A big No from me.

It's quite pretty - or would be if the integral garage was converted to a room with matching window replacing that awful door!

But, I agree with @Nevergotdivorced, it doesn't flow and has a terrible layout which I'd need to change.

Just curious as to what those who dislike the floorplan would change to make it flow better. I'm hopeless at this, and the only thing I can come up with right now is to swop bedroom 1 with the lounge.

I have to say the floor plan is not something on my dislike list.
Our current 3 bed bungalow has one hallway which every room (other than en-suite) runs off of.
I actually like how the living room provides the connection to the second hallway with both the kids bedrooms off of. Currently one of our kids bedrooms is right next to ours and the other right next to our lounge so in the evening we have to really watch our noise level.

Probably lower because of things like the windows. It’s charming though.

Is the utility an actual room or one of those flimsy lean to things?

For me, the positioning of bedroom 1 is odd. Inconvenient for the bathroom. Would you be able to convert the garage to a new master bedroom with en-suite & use the current bedroom 1 as extra living space?

Sorry that sounded so negative - I forgot to say I do like the style of it & the garden looks great. The kitchen is a good size too & the bedrooms look generous.

Are you moving area? Is it a better location than your current house? As it’s a big expense to move if you aren’t gaining space.

It looks so much nicer inside than on the outside.

I’d be put off by the treck to the loo in the night from bedroom 1, if you’re used to an en suite. Also if your kids are still small you wouldn’t necessarily hear them if they were ill/ awake. But I have teenagers and would love that level of space between their bedrooms and ours.

I’d wonder if the kitchen might be cold to eat inside in the winter, as it’s quite big and the table is next to the patio doors

• The kitchen looks split into 2- the cooker and sink on 1 side and the prep area and fridge/freezer on the other. Unless it a fish eye lens and the room is actually tiny, you'd be forever going back and forth from 1 side of the kitchen to the other
• I thought the doors going from the kitchen lead directly to the garden, but I can now see its a lean to/conservatory type utility room! Its bizarre to have to walk through that to the garden
• I too would want a 2nd toilet- especially for a 3 bed house
• Why isn't the garage a rectangle, but instead a weird triangle shape?
• The layout just looks wrong. If I'm staying in bedroom one, to get to the loo, I need to cross the hall, go through the lounge, through another hall to get there!
• I like the little apple tree.
• Personally, I'd want to change so many things- kitchen, layout, extra toilet etc that I don't think it would be good value. I'm not familiar with the area though.

I don't like the fact that rooms are accessed through other rooms. The bathroom is too far from the main bedroom.

It depends on price and whether bed two could become a bigger bedroom, then using some of the gge as a bathroom/dressing room. Bed three and the lounge knocked into a bigger, through lounge. Could work if scope to fit an ensuite into bed 1, but moght have to nick a bit of kitchen

I think it would take a lot of investment to make it work. However, is it potentially an investment property that could, in due coirse have another floor added? In which case, make it nice and don't spend too much.

It seems a long way from the station/shops/drs, etc.

Do you have to trek through the lounge to get to the bathroom?

The kitchen layout seems odd but that could be the photos.

You could make this your own 🙂

Only thing that people haven't mention so far is look out for the trees and associated liabilities/insurance costs (subsidence, branches falling).

It would make more sense to me if kitchen directly connected to current Bedrm3 (make that into new lounge)

And Bedrm 2 was converted to be a sitting room/spare room/child's room?

Current lounge to be turned into a bedroom, so big bedrooms in front & open flow space shared living space in back of house.

I think it looks like a picture perfect bungalow at the front, I love it. It’s very expensive - not sure where it is and not invested enough to google. It’s bigger than it looks and quaint. I imagine you could get more for your money.

If you like it, I’d offer 430K, maybe up to 450K. The market is very flat.

Glass bricks?

I agree it doesn’t flow, but it could be changed. The garden is good. I’d want another bathroom too. Depends how much you want to spend on it.

Do you already live on Hayling island? I lived there for a bit and it was a bit bleak for me.

I like it , has character and a nice feel, but moving is expensive so you need to make sure it's worth the expense of the move.

It looks like a small bungalow that was extended out in all directions. That would explain the strange layout.

Have you even been on Hayling in the winter?