Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Newbie here! Knock down and build or go up? 8Apr 27, 2009 3:07 pm Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Newbie here! Knock down and build or go up? 18May 01, 2009 11:39 am We are going a long way about it but we are buying another house to demolish and build on and selling our current house. It would actually cost us more to renovate this house than the other option and then we didn't want to over capitalise either - we would have more than reached the price ceiling for a renovated 60s house. We love where we are now but the figures didn't stack up. After buying land, demolition and building a house we will owe maybe 20-30k more on a mortgage than we owe now but will have a brand new house and that house will be worth a lot more also. Hi I live in a 100yr old semi and my neighbour added an additional floor last yr and our architect has advised that we can knock down our semi and build a free-standing… 0 37723 We've had the offer of a short term tenant whilst waiting for CDC/DA home approval and demolition for our knock down rebuild. It would achieve a pretty low rent as it's… 0 13759 a building inspector should be able to tell you about any major problems but we need a floor plan with dimensions to clarify options for extra bedrooms ... sometime an… 1 8726 |