Paul and Suzanne wanted to dip their toe in the water and asked us to visit to see if it would be worth purchasing the other half of their semi-detached house.
By taking the time to ask the right questions we were able to really understand that the key for Suzanne and Paul was to live in a detached house. Ideally, that they wanted to remain in the community, and they loved the location of their home on the edge of the village with lovely views.
Rather than buying the neighbouring house, we came up with an alternative solution for them to consider. Why not build a new detached house in your garden?
On our recommendation, Paul and Suzanne successfully secured planning and built their new home.
This advice did not immediately lead to a fee for us. We always offer what we believe is the right advice, even if it doesn’t financially benefit us.
A few years later, once Paul and Suzanne moved into their new home, they asked us to sell their original semi-detached house. We added value by working with them to tidy up the restrictive rights with the neighbour to deliver the best possible final sale price and a successful sale.
The Hayman-Joyce advantage:
Financially our strategy created a gain of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
More importantly, our advice has meant Paul and Suzanne are mortgage-free, live in a beautiful home they have designed themselves, which is very energy efficient with low running costs, little ongoing maintenance and a more manageable garden. They remain in the community they love and continue to enjoy wonderful edge of village views.
As Paul summarises “We’ve just ended up with an amazing house. Financially it’s worked out incredibly well for us. First time ever mortgage free. It’s been transformative.”
Transcript of video:
S – We asked Tom if he would just informally come round and give us just some ideas as to what to do. It was a semi-detached house. We knew that the other half was coming up for sale. And so Tom came round and we had, and gave us an idea of how much it was going to be to buy the house and how much it would then cost to make it into one house, which was just a lot of money. So he said, have you ever thought about building in the garden? We have a very, very big garden. It’s very long and it’s all to one side of the house. We hadn’t thought about it at all. We went away and had a think. So that’s what we did. And we would never have thought of that if Tom hadn’t suggested it. It was just somewhere that we mowed, that the kids played in, that the dogs ran in. And we never thought about doing anything with it at all. And so this is, four years later, is what we have.
P – We’ve just ended up with an amazing house. Financially it’s worked out incredibly well for us. First time ever mortgage free. First time ever mortgage free. It’s been transformative.
