Valuation - Terraced house

[Shawady]

I would appreciate any advice from anyone with experience in selling/valuing property with this query.

I live in a house (built early 70's) with a garage that joins to my neighbour's garage i.e. we have no side entrance. We are looking in to converting the garage and building above it, but as my neighbour has already built above his garage, the houses will be completely joined.

The only concern my neighbour has is that the houses would be classified as terraced house and this may affect the value. This would not be an issue to me as we presently have no side entrance and if we just convert the garage, the bins and kid's bikes would have to come through the house anyway.

Any comments on the effect that this work would have on the value of mine and my neighbour's house would be greatly appreciated.

 

[staff]

There is a very distint difference between a terraced house and a semi-d. Terraced houses are a block of 6 or 7 two up two down houses (usually) with no garage or side entrance. Even if there is no side entrance, the fact that there is a garage makes it substantially bigger than your average terraced house. You could have a whole road of semi-d's all attached by extensions/conversions and they would look nothing like terraced houses.

Apart from anything else - your neighbour has a bit of a cheek having already converted their house already......

 

[onq]

The perception of terraced houses is difficult to pin down.
The original house would generally not be thought of as a terrace.
"Joined at the garage" seems different to the buying public than "Joined by a two storey party wall".
But there are also matters of style, scale, period and location to consider; -

• A Georgian Terraced House is a sought after property..
• So are artisan dwellings from the early twentieth century.
• An 80 sq.m. Terraced Town House in Blackrock is similarly "dez rez".

However your neighbour "got to the seat first" and the decision now rests with you.



ONQ.

 

[Shawady]

However your neighbour "got to the seat first" and the decision now rests with you.




ONQ.

Interestingly, many houses on our road have built above the garage but not 2 joined together.
In fairness, the original response from my neighbour was that he would not object. He just mentioned the possibility that is they were classified as terraced an estate agent might knock a significant amount of the price if we were ever to sell.

One of the architects I had look at it mentioned that if we got the renovated part of the house done in a slightly differently style to the remainder of the house it would stand out and need not be called terraced.