Our lovely neighbout is moving . She is selling her large family-sized house to down-size.
We would be keen to buy part of her garden. There is quite an obvious demarcation line between her "formal" garden/driveway around the house and the large lawn with huge trees/shrubs which is the bit we are interested in.
We have discussed this with her and she is up for it in principle. Our problem is that we have no idea at all how much to offer her. We do not even know the size of it as the EA said they are only interested in the size of the house and the size of the plot is of no interest ??
Any ideas how to go about this? Do we ask our own surveyor to come and give us an estimate? Is there such a thing as a "standard rate" for garden?? It is large enough to build a house on, but has no planning permission and I am not sure one whould get one.
Thanks for any advice.