Location.
Although we found a house with a double garage, AND workshop. The downside was the completely shrubberised garden and ninety’s decor. In our case that’s in an outer London borough, with a direct line into London 6 minutes walk from my door, and the M25 a mile away which for our jobs is perfect.
Do some research though, becuase, and have some patience because in my case despite talking to the vendor, visiting the house numeropus times throughout different times of the day:
a) Its taken use a year to (literally this week) remove the nineties wallpaper, due to work, kids and a new baby last October
b) 2 weeks after we moved in we realised across the street was a family(s) of romanian gipsies. Now, I’ve not issues and we never had any problems at all with them, but they do come with a reputation which was confirmed by the local shopkeepers. Anyway, they’ve moved out now so all’s well.
Despite how nice the house can/will be, when the kids leave school we will be looking to move outside the M25, taking our increasing profit margin (fingers crossed) with us.