We viewed a house today which I absolutely loved. We wanted to put an offer in but something was bothering me before we did so.
The neighbors next door have a small extension at the back of the house for the kitchen and this extension wall is now the party wall. This kind of put me off before even viewing, but I loved the house so much after seeing it, I'm still interested. We would only be hoping in future to put an extension of the same size ourselves, so we would only be loosing a few inches. The same lady sold that house as the one we are looking at, and she said the owner did give them permission to build on the boundary so nothing can be done about that.
The thing that's bothering me is that the gutters and soffit are literally in the garden of the house we are looking at. A good 4 inches over the wall I'd say. I could touch them. The estate agent tried to convince me that they would have to allow us to remove the gutters in future to build our own extension if we wanted but I'm not so sure. Would they have to let us remove them to build an extension? They might have permission to build on the wall, but those are in the garden of that house. If I cant ever extend because of those gutters I think that would be it on that property for me.
The neighbors next door have a small extension at the back of the house for the kitchen and this extension wall is now the party wall. This kind of put me off before even viewing, but I loved the house so much after seeing it, I'm still interested. We would only be hoping in future to put an extension of the same size ourselves, so we would only be loosing a few inches. The same lady sold that house as the one we are looking at, and she said the owner did give them permission to build on the boundary so nothing can be done about that.
The thing that's bothering me is that the gutters and soffit are literally in the garden of the house we are looking at. A good 4 inches over the wall I'd say. I could touch them. The estate agent tried to convince me that they would have to allow us to remove the gutters in future to build our own extension if we wanted but I'm not so sure. Would they have to let us remove them to build an extension? They might have permission to build on the wall, but those are in the garden of that house. If I cant ever extend because of those gutters I think that would be it on that property for me.