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lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Bearing in mind the surrounding properties, and the location, would you really feel comfortable in something that ostentatious? I know I wouldn't.

Well, I defer to your better knowledge of the area, but thinking about villages etc they are generally made up of a few ostentatious properties surrounded by less flash ones down to humble ones. (which are often the prettiest in period villages) Is it that different with flash new executive hiomes? I don't know. Fwiw it would look less flash when I'd lost-in-rated it and got rid of the gates etc. DH would be thrilled to have a suana though -flash git

fc123

dopester wrote: »

The asking price doesn't even stand out as particularly good value against all the other homes in postcode SA18 on Rightmove.

This 4 bed house is £40K cheaper, and many other examples to compare it against.

But that one has no lake and duck pond.

PasturesNew

Great houses if you like the house and the area, but you can't just move to a house like that and commute to work, nor (probably) find the kind of work that would pay for it within 100-200 miles.

This is the kind of property that those programmes on telly were about: Escape to the Country et al, where they bought some pretentious/place with land in the country for the missus to sprog out in ... and he got a crash pad in the City (just large enough to squeeze the secretary into twice a week).

Adebisi

this will be less than 90k in a year - voted cold

oops though this was HUKD

dopester

fc123 wrote: »

But that one has no lake and duck pond.

Yes. I didn't see that in the photos, but now notice it in the description.

Can also see the duck pond on the satellite pic. This link should take you direct to it.

It might be my imagination but that house seems to standout against all the other surrounding farms, houses and businesses.

Davesnave

dopester wrote: »

How about this one, at being on the outskirts of Brynamman, where the house you posted up was upper Brynamman. £11K cheaper asking price, but only 3 beds I've just noticed.

Hmm....That one is almost 'normal' in terms of room sizes and the plot, though set apart from the others, is a modest 0.3 acre. It's not far from the house I posted and, depite the Porsche in the picture, it doesn't shout 'conspicuous wealth' at you.

Strange dearth of trampolines at both places. That should please PN!;)

dorsetjohn_3

Jonbvn wrote: »

Ehh? Offence taken.;)

You obviously know sweet FA about Wales or property here. It is patently ridiculous to tar the whole of Wales with the same brush.

It's not our fault the English are !!!! at sport!

Didn't we finish above you Slab Heads in this years 6 nations

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, I defer to your better knowledge of the area, but thinking about villages etc they are generally made up of a few ostentatious properties surrounded by less flash ones down to humble ones. (which are often the prettiest in period villages) Is it that different with flash new executive hiomes? I don't know. Fwiw it would look less flash when I'd lost-in-rated it and got rid of the gates etc. DH would be thrilled to have a suana though -flash git

There's nothing very 'quaint' about the ex-mining villages around Ammanford, but Bynamman is not a bad environment, just a lot of the usual grey stone and spar-dash. I meant this particular house is set away from the village, among older farm-style properties and appears totally out of place. It was certainly built to get noticed, but in all the wrong ways!

Like you, if I had it, those ostentatious gates would be the first to go. I guess the cattle grid would come in handy though, to keep our animals in!:rotfl:

fc123

dopester wrote: »

Yes. I didn't see that in the photos, but now notice it in the description.

Can also see the duck pond on the satellite pic. This link should take you direct to it.

It might be my imagination but that house seems to standout against all the other surrounding farms, houses and businesses.

I couldn't see a lake or a duck pond? Seemed to be surrounded by farm buildings too.

StevieJ

mewbie wrote: »

Whoa sorry Dave. I said that to make a simple point, regardless of the hurt it might cause Welsh or Welsh type people. I said something similar about Scotland a few hundred posts back, and have not received a Xmas card from Mitchaa since.

My point was not about how nice or otherwise it is in Wales, or how nice or otherwise the people are, it was about overpriced housing. And how the disease spreads outwards from where it starts. Can't afford the City? Buy in the country? Can't afford the country? Buy in another country.

Seriously, sorry for thoughtless choice of words. (The Scots post was more calculated).

Stop creeping now We have a clock tower in the city centre, the clock on the face that points to Wales has been removed. They wouldn't give the time of day to the Welsh