Fairwood Road Cardiff CF5 3QF
Wales
£465,000
Listed on 22/10/2026
Listed on 22/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
4Type
Not SpecifiedArea
1270 sqftFeatures
- Garden
- Parking
Description
This four-bedroom detached bungalow is set back from Fairwood Road on a private lane and is offered with no onward chain. The accommodation includes an entrance hall, a long lounge with French doors to the rear, a kitchen with an adjoining pantry, four double bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property is described as requiring modernisation, providing scope to update the existing layout and finishes.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
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44out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity
Confidence: MEDIUM
This detached four-bedroom bungalow has a clean, usable starting point and a clear light-refurb canvas: dated kitchen finishes and some older bedroom décor and flooring offer scope for cosmetic improvements, while the bathroom appears relatively current. The spacious lounge opens to a large, maintained garden, and the pantry could be adapted as a utility area. The listing also mentions additional rear land with possible building-plot potential, subject to consent; that feasibility is unverified.
The main constraint is the price. At £465,000, the asking price is above the local £/sqf benchmark, and adding the stated £5,000–£14,000 refurbishment range still leaves the purchase-plus-works cost stretched against local benchmarks for this floor area. That comparison is with current local averages, not a forecast of the value after renovation, so the strong fundamentals and scope to personalise do not remove the need for careful buying discipline.
Key opportunities
- Refresh the dated kitchen finishes and older flooring and bedroom décor without starting from a visibly damaged interior.
- Make use of the spacious lounge, French doors and large lawned garden, with scope to improve the basic paving and bare-soil areas.
- Explore the pantry as a potential utility space and investigate the rear land’s possible uses, subject to consent and feasibility.
Key risks
- At the asking price, even the stated light-refurb budget leaves the purchase-and-works total stretched against local benchmarks for a property of this size.
- Budget around £474,500 including the asking price and quoted works of about £9,500, leaving a gap of around 16% versus area norms for this sqft — current-condition benchmarks only, not after-works GDV.
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