Actually, the houses that are in a huge demand in the Manchester & Nashua areas are the three bedroom ranches that were built in the 1960s and 1970s. Especially if they have been redone.
People want single floor living. Our friends just bought one. They ended up taking down the walls that separated the kitchen from the dining room and living room. Typically these houses only had one load bearing wall down the center. Even that can be taken out IF you replace it with 3 LVLs to create a beam. The other thing that needs to be done is move the laundry UP out of the basement.
The only thing wrong with a lot of these houses is that they only had one car garages. The lot lines might be too close to add onto the end.
Another friend has a house just like I described in the city of Manchester. It takes him 15 minutes to mow the lawn. It has three bedrooms and one bathroom. They remodeled the bath too. Took out the tub and put in a big glassed in shower stall.
Me on the other hand is looking at buying a commercial lawn mower that is more expensive than my first brand new truck.
“””Me on the other hand is looking at buying a commercial lawn mower that is more expensive than my first brand new truck.”””
I had not thought about that. My last two riding lawn mowers cost me more than my first two cars I bought in the 1960’s.