"dg" wrote in message ...

Any older house will generally have more maintenance costs. But over the
period you plan to keep it you have to decide whether the £20k new house
'premium' is more than the cost of maintaining your older house. You could
buy an old house with all the maintenance done by the previous owner - so
maintenance free for the next 15 years.


Where do you get the idea that any house, new or old, can be
maintenance free for 15 years? That's why there are so many crap,
poorly maintained, houses on the market.