Buying a house or apartment? Pros and cons.

I'm leaning towards an apartment.

I do have a few conditions:

Not ground floor.

Has a balcony.

Minimum 2 rooms.

Secure private parking.

Not storage heating.

Not in a ghost town / waste land area. Needs a few pubs and shops around.

Note: I am a sole buyer with no kids.

Here are the pros:

Cheaper to heat if you're sandwiched between other apartments.

More secure. Harder to break into. Can head off on holidays and leave the windows open. Car less likely to get robbed if it's in secured parking, preferably underground.

Fewer things to maintain.

Cons:

Noisy neighbors.

Could have been thrown up in the celtic tiger by the hungover breakfast roll patrol (my friends were all tradesmen back in the day and the absolute state of some of them heading to the sites on a Monday lol. Still coming down off all sorts of drugs)

May not see the sun for the rest of your life depending on which way your apartment is facing.

Annoying rules, for example no hanging clothes outside.

I'm aware of management charges. Doesn't bother me, depending on what's included.

Current or ex-apartment dwellers - any other cons?

What are your thoughts?

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