Housing market’s North South divide widens

Davesnave

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Is the farm the 4 bed detached by brinkworth on for 350K? Been to see it. Needs a LOT of work doing, rewiring etc and is right on top of the M4. Otherwise might have been tempted to throw in a "Cheeky offer".

Got a link?

They are cheeky calling that Brinkworth, when it may as well be on one of the slip roads to the M4. The rewire wouldn't put me off, but my tinnitus would have to be a lot worse before I could cope with that location! (Wind generation possible from all the 40 tonners going by at 70mph? :rotfl:)

lostinrates

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Farm house with 1 acre of paddock.

Its not in an ideal location though, plus the house needs gutting as I have said. Think it is way overpriced as it is as it literally overlooks the M4.

hh, not for us then. We're ''monitoring'' something lse on M4. The rtight property might convince us on a motorway...depends on a lot of things. Some MSeers (including the poter above!) held my hand while we agonised over something on the M3 a while ago. Road noise would be an issue, but depending on the land, and indeed the topography, its not smething we automatically rule out....even if we wouldn't put motorway proximity''on our wanted list!

StevieJ

geoffky wrote: »

For once you are right...I keep hearing how houses are selling fast on here and even on hpc they are admitting the last few months have seen a bounce.

Where i live the market is the same as it was last year and very few sales are happening and prices are falling more slower than last year.

.So it must be the case that some places are doing well and other places are still not selling at any decent level.

I think though as we get in to winter the market here will just be the same but places that have had a rise in sales it will look like the market has fell on its !!!! again.. Out of the five houses we would go out and buy tomorrow if the price was right one sold in feb and the other four are still on the market after eighteen months at least with reductions from 290k down to 210k at the moment..if they would take 180 k today i would buy but alas i will wait for the market to do its work for me.. our average selling time for a house is now 292 days on the market..

Someone I know has just sold for cash in the Port, he received full asking price he had previously dropped it 10% (been on the market for over a year).