This house was mostly practical reasons. We were renting and I was quite happy to stay put for a year or so, but DH was not. So nearly every weekend we went house hunting. It was costing a fortune in petrol and food, along with taking up time we could have been enjoying ourselves.

The reasons we picked this property:
Price - it was $40k less than everything else DH was looking at. I was comfortable with the mortgage repayment on it
Location - good distance from town, no neighbours (surrounded by farm land), close to bush, quietish back road
Land - minimum size we wanted (1/2 acre), native trees, cleared area for veggie patch. Biggest plus a bore pump
House - was passable, required a lot less work than many others we looked at. Has the minimum 3 bed rooms, good kitchen etc No character at all, which was not a problem as we were planning on a reno job, I just wanted it livable for a few years, rather than it needing reno now!

So overall for my own sanity and bank account, I made do with what we found. Other houses just did not quite fit and some (for no obvious reason) made me want to cry at the mere thought of buying. DH seemed to look at every place like we were buying and it really panicked me, as many we just should have walked out of straight away, but he had to play the agent At the end of the day I am happy with the place we have bought, even though I did not "love" it at first sight.