"dg" wrote in message
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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.

Newer house are more in demand in some areas, hence the higher price for
them. Owners know they are relatively trouble free and cheap to keep warm.
They tend to come with utility rooms and proper plumbing and electrical
systems, not bodged up and added to over years stuff.


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