We are house hunting and are struggling to find anything we like... however, a doer upper on a street we love has been sitting on the market and we are considering a viewing and a reasonable offer that reflects the state of the property (currently we don't think it really does reflect that).
Now, we know that the seller might be difficult which is why the house is still on. But we think the real issue could be the ways in which the neighbours have extended. On one side the neighbours have the most enormous side return extension and the wall is insanely high. Overall not that much of an issue though it clearly impacts light into the back reception. But on the other side, the neighbours have done a big L shaped loft conversion which may well be on or over the boundary. We would also want / need to do a conversion (the original house is pretty small), so my question really is whether being second mover on extensions can cause problems? Has anyone run into problems building a dormer loft next to a neighbour who already has one? Will we be left short changed while they basically straddled our house?! Builders have said they can do it but the gap left might need to be bigger etc and it starts to become a bit unattractive. We plan to knock on the door again, to say hey, but they never seem to actually be there!
Any thoughts / experience / recommendations would be helpful.