A FIELD GUIDE TO ROOMIER LIVINGUK / 2026

FEATUREFEATURE / TENNIS COURTS

Homes with tennis courts.

Existing, verified courts — with no implied permission to build one elsewhere.

A private tennis court is one of the few features that is unambiguous: it either exists and is playable, or it does not. Surface, net, fencing and drainage are all checkable, and we check them.

The interesting economics are upkeep — resurfacing, nets and fencing age on a visible clock — and the constraint they can impose: a court occupies a large, flat, sunny plot that some future owner may wish to use differently. New courts need consent; existing ones carry no promise for their next decade.

HOW WE RECORD IT: Existing, verified courts; never an implied permission to build one.

REASONS TO THINK TWICE

What we'd check before a viewing.

  • Resurfacing and fencing costs are material; inspect before valuing.
  • A court is not permission to build another, and its own status may be conditional.
  • Courts need level, open ground; on sloping sites check how that was achieved.
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