In your situation I would avoid terraced houses and, if possible, new estates. A completed, established estate that has been taken over by the Council is preferable. You need side access to your back garden and ideally a driveway that will take two cars. I wouldn't worry about decor, energy rating or comparative size of rooms. You could do a lot with €30k to brighten the place up. I'd be looking for the best second-hand house I would find in the right location.Which would you go for?
I wouldn't touch new houses. Most I've seen look great superficially, shiny new kitchen, floors and tiling but badly built, tiny spaces, chimney breast in the middle of a wall where the double bed should go, a door that will take a wheelchair and bathroom too but no way wheelchair would make it down the corridor, terrible electric heating, narrow steep stairs, no gardens, parking a nightmare, no way you can open the wardrobe in you put in your standard double bed. No storage. No separate utility for the washing machine. Kids bikes tied to railings. No shed for coal.
Here's a trick they use too, they put in 'small' double beds to falsify the feeling of space. Go measure.
And stay away from terraced housing (bins and kids bikes and lawnmowers is why)
Also older houses have attics that are generally convertable if you expand your family.
You can always put in a kitchen one year. Do the windows another. Put in an extra bathroom etc.
(And I see Michaelm's post with which I totally agree)
Bronte may have a point, I read a statistic sometime back that many houses built at speed throughout boom time Ireland lacked sufficient insulation and sound proofing and will have to be upgraded in future years.
Bronte may have a point, I read a statistic sometime back that many houses built at speed throughout boom time Ireland lacked sufficient insulation and sound proofing and will have to be upgraded in future years.
Well if you read it somewhere then it must be true. Why listen to someone who actually lives in one of these houses.
In any case, OP is asking about a brand new build, i.e. 2016 rather than one built in the boom. I think you and Bronte have missed the point here. She is not asking about a house built in the boom.
Bronte may have a point, I read a statistic sometime back that many houses built at speed throughout boom time Ireland lacked sufficient insulation and sound proofing and will have to be upgraded in future years.
Also I remember that homebond didn't cover pyrite etc etc etc. Just buyer beware.
Well if you read it somewhere then it must be true. Why listen to someone who actually lives in one of these houses.
In any case, OP is asking about a brand new build, i.e. 2016 rather than one built in the boom. I think you and Bronte have missed the point here. She is not asking about a house built in the boom.
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