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To live on Mull or Not?

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 5:08pm
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WendyMc12

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Location: Isle of Mull

Joined: 29 Aug 2017

Hello,  my first time on here and I am after some advice and help really.  Myself, my husband and my 15 year old son have been coming to Mull for our annual holidays for the best part of 20 years, with about 3ish years off!  We first started coming to Mull, Tobermory mainly in 1998.  After that first holiday, as you always do, we wanted to go back and live there!  It's not as easy as that really, what with or jobs and our house.  We did look at the houses way back in 98 and there were very reasonable but we didn't do anything about it. 

We have just come back from Mull and would love to move there.  We started chatting to a lady in a shop and she mentioned about buying a kit house where you build your own house as she has ordered one and has bought some land near a loch. We have been looking at them, they are very reasonable about £50,000 upwards, we have seen some ideal land £65,000 (can't believe how much land has shot up in the last 20 odd years).  I just don't know whether to take a leap of faith, sell up, build our own home and live the life on the island.

Any thoughts?

Thank you  Wendy.

HarryH

Posted: Tue Oct 3, 2017 2:09pm

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Location: Isle of Mull

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Posted: Tue Oct 3, 2017 2:09pm

Wendy

We have looked into building our own house and the kit price is literally a timber frame only.

You will need to factor all the ground work, foundations, access roads, services, foul drainage etc.

Labour and kit delivery is a major cost  factor .

Most kits will also need a block outer skin and render together with internal joinery packages, bathroom and kitchen, flooring, electrics, plumbing, decorations means a typical 3 bed outturn cost would be in the region of between £150 - £200k plus land.

Trust this helps.

Regards 

Harry

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