Where Can I Live

[khaleesi]

i'm due to be exchanging contracts on my house in a few weeks and I've no where to go. I'm looking to purchase one new build for about £110,000 and a second house to renovate for about £120,000. I was going to rent while looking for one or both properties, but it's proving harder than I anticipated due to having a dog, but still wanting to live somewhere nice.
I was looking to move to the isle of wight, but i'm about £40,000 short to do this. I just want to live somewhere peaceful with lovly dog walks that's not in Essex or London.

[bednobs]

do you have any other constraints?

[DTCwordfan]

patience and get to know the letting agency staff, Kh, - you are better off with a dog than a cat, believe me....my guesstimate down here, only 1 in 4 properties qualify and my advice, look for the more rural ones.

[khaleesi]

No. My main priory is buying the new build so I have somewhere to go. I'd like parking, a washing machine and one or two bedrooms. A garden would be a bonus, but not a necessity.

I only need parking in the renovation project

[khaleesi]

Really wordfan. I'm getting so anxious about not being able to find somewhere and then losing my buyers. I know its such a dog friendly place, but none of the nice ones allow pets for obvious reasons. I suffer from OCD so I know i'd keep it clean, but landlords don't want to take the chance

[khaleesi]

plus my dog is a staffie cross, which makes it ten times harder, even though she is happy, friendly and very well house trained (she lets me baby wipe her after walks)

[ladybirder]

So is it a rental you are wanting at the moment. If so, here is one near the Somerset Levels, wonderful walking with a dog here.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-73381615.html

[ladybirder]

Pets considered here as well.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-83225942.html

[khaleesi]

Why so specific ladybirder? are you the land lady lol
Thats a lovly area, is it detached?

I'll either rent somewhere and only buy one property to renovate
Or buy two properties (one must be a chain free nice one though)

[Buenchico]

£110k is a very tight budget for a new-build property. The part of Suffolk I live in (which isn't particularly expensive for houses) has loads of new-build houses going up but £110k will only get you 'shared ownership'. That's a pity as, otherwise, this might be an ideal area for you to live in, where there are loads of lovely dog walks available.

Perhaps you ought to re-jig your budget a bit? (I'm also mystified as to why anyone would actually want to move into a new-build house, as they're likely to have far more problems with them than a slightly older property).

If you're stuck with only having £120k for your main residence, then look towards the north of England, where you can find pleasant villages (e.g. in Yorkshire) that have far lower house prices than in the South.

[LadyCG]

You could move to Kingswinford, Staffies are 10 a penny round here and walking areas are plentiful.

£110k would probably only buy you a static Caravan though.

[khaleesi]

lol are you my ex boyfriend ladybirder, these are all really close to where he is now and he keeps trying to get me to move to devon

[khaleesi]

oh I know chris. there is a lovly new build one bed flat on the island for just under that, but dogs aren't allowed. I was gutted. Maybe I should just rent and then i'd have more for the renovation. I'm just so worried I won't be able to find somewhere

I have looked into the caravans and the fact they lose value and the management company have a massive hold over you really put me off

[khaleesi]

is Suffolk where pleasure wood hills is, I used to go there as a little girl

[khaleesi]

I wanted a new build because they are chain free and clean

[khaleesi]

is Leiston, Suffolk nice? there's a new build there for £125,000 and I could probably get them to come down

[khaleesi]

sorry, ignore the last post, that's for land only.

[Buenchico]

Pleasurewood Hills is in the very north of the county, near Lowestoft, Khaleesi. I live 50 miles from there, in a quiet little town (but with 5 pubs and quite a few shops) between Ipswich and Stowmarket.
https://tinyurl.com/y6p7xdjj

There are two new-build developments on the edge of our town, plus several more in a big village 4 miles down the road and with more still planned for Stowmarket (which is 4 miles in the other direction). Many of those developments are in locations that can easily access shops and facilities but which are also close to the countryside. However the house aren't cheap!

You'd actually be better off looking for a property in one of the two big estates that were built in the 1970s in our town. (They're both quite pleasant. I live on one of them!) A one-bedroom house would probably cost you around the £110k that you've mentioned. I've got a two or three minute walk to the shops and pubs in one direction and the same length of walk to be out in open fields in the other. There are plenty of dog walkers around here!

As I see it around here, buying a new build property adds at least £40k onto what you'd pay for a broadly similar 1970s house. I simply can't see why people buy new-build houses!

[ladybirder]

I am not your ex boyfriend and I have no ulterior motives Khaleesi. Just trying to help after doing a quick search in an area I know well for rental properties on the edge of countryside which allow pets.

[Buenchico]

Just in case you see anything else that interest you in Leiston, I'll tell you that it's a town I regard as 'not unpleasant' but also as 'not special'. ('Boring' might be my best description of it!). As it's fairly close to the coast though, house prices around there tend to be higher than inland parts of the county.

Don't even think about trying Southwold. A beach hut there can cost you more than you've got for a house!
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/is-this-wooden-chalet-worth-the-huge-150-000-price-tag-1-5682807

[khaleesi]

You are right chris. I really suffer from OCD, so the fact no one has lived there before is what I see the value in. I don't understand people that pay a premium for one and then don't maintain it. I'm living in a 1950's house that I've renovated, and I much prefer it to the new builds that are nearly twice the price without the big garden.