Dream House

lostinrates

Oh for goodness sake have neither of you ever struggled putting your makeup on in a dingy dressing room? This is a LADIES bathroom/dressing room quite obviously. (although I daresay all that damp in the environment will lead to premature roting of eyeshadows and the old stye as a result.)

Bf109

ad44downey wrote: »

Thinly veiled "I've got condiserably more money than you" thread IMO

And there was thinking it was a thinly veiled "I live in a really crappy area" thread.

mewbie_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh for goodness sake have neither of you ever struggled putting your makeup on in a dingy dressing room?

I'm not admitting to it on here...

Bf109

Jonbvn wrote: »

Weird,

One of the bathrooms is a walkthrough to what appears to be a conservatory. Weird?

Actually, thats pretty damme cool!

lostinrates

Bf109 wrote: »

Actually, thats pretty damme cool!

...for a less than great area...;)

Jonbvn

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh for goodness sake have neither of you ever struggled putting your makeup on in a dingy dressing room? This is a LADIES bathroom/dressing room quite obviously. (although I daresay all that damp in the environment will lead to premature roting of eyeshadows and the old stye as a result.)

I reckon this place could have been a high class knocking shop by the look of it!:eek: :rotfl:

HeadInSand_2

pickledpink wrote: »

You should definitely buy it - that sounds a BARGAIN!!

A 5-bed house round my way (no swimming pool I'm afraid) will set you back a bit more than that http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-20267603.rsp?tr_t=buy&pa_n=1&mediamode=pictures&curr_media_n=1&from_showcase=false:money: .................so I'd go for it if I were you!

That's been for sale at that price since at least March though, so I'd wager it's not worth that

pickledpink

Generali wrote: »

CR8 had the highest average income of anywhere in the country in 2003.

Terry and June was set there.

It's amazing really because when I've driven through it just looked like another place vying for the world's dullest suburb gold medal (they stopped having that in the Olympics after Athens I think).

You've 'driven through' without looking then.

Purley has some of the greenest, most beautiful views in the country.

It also has some of the grandest houses in the country.

Oh, and it's just 20 minutes from central London..............

mewbie_2

From PickledPink...
"Hi there,
I'm thinking of buying an LCD TV and was wondering if anyone had any idea what the Matsui make was like? Or which other cheaper brand is good value for money?
Many thanks in advance. "

Did you ever get that cheap TV?

dopester

I just checked the area on Rightmove and there seems to be at least 9 (I didn't do a prolonged search) of these fancy houses on the Webb Estate for sale.

I don't know how many houses there are on the Webb Estate.

Also Wikipedia does support what Pinky said about incomes.

The Webb Estate made headlines in a 2002 survey, which found that it had over the years attracted the highest-earning residents in the UK.

Although I've always had a theory that a reasonable proportion of old-money / rich (not super-rich, nor people who just treat their house as their home) do care about property prices, and will try and sell if they believe their assets could decline significantly in value for the long term - and who knows what other commitments some have gotten themselves in to during the boom that could never end.

I certainly know a few old-money / new-money types with second homes, villas abroad, boats, school fees, gifted big deposits to kid's houses, investments made in other companies, and so on, and don't think they'll all escape unscathed.

One has already seen his company tail-off big time on orders, but how much is left in the savings pot after his 5 luxury holidays abroad a year, cars, designer clothes for the wife and kids.. and so on?

Anyway I'm not convinced with some of these fancy homes being able to withstand the decimation coming in the market.

I'm not fully sure what area the Savills EA below was talking about (clearly a fair trek out of London) but the fancy mansions seemed to get hit quite badly in the last recession according to him:

YouTube (Timeline @ 05:00)

Guide price at £4 million pounds. In the last recession, you got to the point on these larger houses that you couldn't get rid of them. They were seen as a liability.

We were doing valuations on properties where people had lost a million pounds on the value of what they paid for it.

And of course you could see that physically affecting their body with the shock of it.