Originally Posted by
RobDad
Apart from the houses themselves, modern developments seem to be so packed together that everyone overlooks each other in the bath, the toilet, 3 neighbours watch you hanging out your washing in your pristine but postage stamp sized garden etc!. Our house was built by the original owner in 2000 (well, by the builder he employed) and we’ve had no issues in the 6 years we’ve been here at all. Decent large sized rooms, big plot, proper double garage etc. Out of curiosity we had it valued a couple of years ago, as we’d noticed brand new 4 bed houses on a local development, complete with garages you could barely fit a mower in and tiny gardens, on sale for considerably more than we’d paid for our 6 bed house (with a garden you could fit 3 of these plots on comfortably) - I was told ‘buyers pay a premium for a new house as you get all the kitchen equipment and fittings brand new’ - I pointed out the stupidity of this comment to the estate agent who out of nowhere added an extra £75k to our valuation! Quite clearly from this thread, newer most definitely isn’t better!
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