Ground Floor Vs First Floor Flat

Assume both flats are in same.

Ground floor vs first floor flat.

I absolutely wouldn t consider anything not on the ground floor. Our flat was so warm all the time and i feel the cold badly. First floor apartments are sometimes less expensive than units on higher floors can come with private outdoor spaces and simply make more sense for folks with babies in strollers dogs to walk or mobility issues. But there are drawbacks you should know about like pests break ins and more noise.

From personal experience i can say that one should not buy rent ground floor at any cost. The evolving needs of indian buyers has brought about a change in their home buying preferences. For example if an average two bed flat in prime central london sells for 1 4m a first floor apartment of the same proportions would be valued at 1 82m rokstone said. This was because ground floor was considered most at risk on street level passers by etc etc etc and the first floor was closest to the front door but none of the ground floor issues.

At that time i was living in a top floor apartment. If you have choice of between the lower ground floor flat and the top 3rd floor flat to invest which one would you prefer. The flat was above a shop 9 5 deal. It used to be considered that a first floor flat was best then the level above and so on with a ground floor flat last.

I mean you dont want to be on the 23rd floor in a high rise but on the 3rd floor out of 4 storey building isnt so bad. Ground floor flat top or first floor. For me as a female i would not go for a ground floor flat just for the safety aspect. From direction of the property to type of flooring new parameters have joined the existing list of property selection.

Depends on how tall the building was to be honest. We lived in a first and second floor flat too until ds was 18 months and it was a nightmare getting the buggy up and down the stairs we had stairs up to the front door too especially with shopping too. So that was a good deal although lenders don t really want to lend for homes above shops. That said when we lived in toxteth the block we lived in an old house with about 8 flats in it got steamed by a gang one night.

Long ago we lived in a very big first floor flat tenement in a very cold part of the uk.