Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

Cleaver

Daily Mail: How we went through the mill

...but when Brian and Margo Grieve viewed Moulin Mill they saw their dream home.

In April 2005, the couple set about turning the derelict 380-year-old flour mill in the heart of the Scottish Highlands into their perfect home.

Brian, a 42-year-old corporate banker turned finance consultant, says: 'It's been worth it to get exactly what we wanted, down to the last detail.'

It it was all so perfect and dream-like just four or five years ago then why sell it now?

'When you buy a house, after four or five years you notice it needs redecorating. I can't be bothered with that - I'd rather just move home,' says Brian.

Ahh, of course. Why keep your 'dream house' when something needs painting? I fully understand their thinking. Why bother going to all the effort of buying some paint and doing some painting when we all know it's far, far easier to pack every single thing you own in to a thousand boxes, pay solicitors and the government thousands and thousands of pounds and go through an extremely stressful and time consuming home move? A very sensible decision.

Actually, I notice that the washing up at our place needs doing. But I can't be bothered with that, I might just move house.

fc123

Thanks for the Thanks Mr Brown.......I will take it as an 'I understand Thanks'.

OH coming down on the train (havne't seen him for 5 days) and I know I have to use lots of will power not to moan about it. In fact, I shouldn't mention it at all...but I know I will let something slip.

Worse, we have a huge opp been offered us this week and are flailing around like caught fish in a net as we are so out of our depth on the offer. Yes, I have researched and asked Q's but, in the end, we are small and vulnerable. We have the ideas they want but are struggling to find a way to maximise them to our financial advantage.

OMG I need an emoticon

fc123

I wish I were/was a Communist sometimes.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Thanks for the Thanks Mr Brown.......I will take it as an 'I understand Thanks'.

OH coming down on the train (havne't seen him for 5 days) and I know I have to use lots of will power not to moan about it. In fact, I shouldn't mention it at all...but I know I will let something slip.

Worse, we have a huge opp been offered us this week and are flailing around like caught fish in a net as we are so out of our depth on the offer. Yes, I have researched and asked Q's but, in the end, we are small and vulnerable. We have the ideas they want but are struggling to find a way to maximise them to our financial advantage.

OMG I need an emoticon

FC...I get it. Nothing to say or suggest but I empathise.

I think you found the emoticon of me.

nearlynew

Oooh missus.......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1261400/A-peek-inside-Frankie-Howerds-home-goes-sale-belongings.html

Perhaps it is the pink walls and the kitsch interior. Or maybe it is because it remains trapped in a timewarp.
Whatever the reason, the home of comic legend Frankie Howerd is still up for sale nearly two years on - and has been reduced to almost half the original asking price.
Fans of the camp Carry On star can pick up his Somerset country estate for £450,000.

lostinrates

nearlynew wrote: »

Oooh missus.......

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1261400/A-peek-inside-Frankie-Howerds-home-goes-sale-belongings.html

DH and I were once driving around there and I said...

lir: I think thats where sid james house is

dh: really? how do they know?

lir: well er...he lived ther, I guess thats how they knew

dh; how did they know he lived there?

lir: they saw him I guess..

dh; they saw Saint James?

lir. : no , not St. James, SID James.

dh: I don't think you mean sid james

lir: I mean Sid james not st james.

dh: I think you mean frnakie howard.

lir: quite possibly.


When you were there it was actually quite a hilarious conversation but like many things doesn't translate well afterwards


400k? wonder how that compares with others with out the ''provenance''? I would have thought ok tbh....

dopester

fc123 wrote: »

Now, I did do my nosy neighbour impression today as I have resisted going outside whenever I see a couple of bad suits wandering around...as has happened the past week......and lovely same sex couple are thinking of buying it....and I confess...I AM SOOOOO JEALOUS. But, as I am nice I let them come into mine to see the view from the back..as that is what you are paying for.

:rotfl:
@ your clip fc, re all the going-on with local property you manage to source out for your local areas.

I meant to reply to this on the day you posted it fc, but forget (tired). I think it's great how you manage to get your info for just what's happening with properties in your local neighbourhood. That's generous of you.. to let viewers see the house from as your home looks onto it.

It's important and good to know what's going on in your local area. I'm very reliant on a relative with a similar gift for digging out info about just what's going on in our local property scene. She passes me loads of juicy info about houses in the neighbourhood I would otherwise have no idea about.

Cleaver wrote: »

It it was all so perfect and dream-like just four or five years ago then why sell it now?

Actually, I notice that the washing up at our place needs doing. But I can't be bothered with that, I might just move house.

dopester

This house has been 'relaunched'.. quite a long time on from the Times article in December 2008.

For some reason it's one I'm especially interested in learning the outcome of. PB first picked it up again on a new listing on 22nd March 2010. People can keep things "on hold forever" if an asking price of a single property is totally unrealistic and unaffordable - but it's possible they might somehow luck out.

Guide Price £1,400,000.

Updated at original post on this thread here.

David and Claire O’Donnell didn’t realise how hard it would be to sell when they decided to put their five-bedroom house in Hampshire on the market for £1.7m in August. The couple, who have two children, Phoebe, 16 and Miles, 11, wanted to sell up and move towards Maidenhead, in Berkshire, where David, 52, a director of a sales and marketing company, works.

Although they dropped the price to £1.55m in September, the property failed to sell. The O’Donnells have now taken Orchard House off the market and are planning to relaunch it in the spring.

“I think there will be a little more incentive out there then for people to want to buy,” says Claire, 51, who renovated the house and is hoping to start an interior- design business. “People won’t rush back into the market, but life goes on and people can’t keep things on hold for ever.”

dopester

Daily Mail
Balaton Place, Snailwell Road, Newmarket, Suffolk
Why Mike Spenser-Morris's £4m stable block is a racing cert
By Sebastian O Kelly
Last updated at 3:13 PM on 5th April 2010
The Courtyard, Balaton Place, Snailwell Road, Newmarket CB8 7YP

Were the house in Richmond or Hampstead it would fly off the shelf for five times the price, but the reason it has stayed on the market a while is that it is located in the Suffolk town.

Back in 2007, the Spenser-Morrises were asking £7 million for the house, and very nearly sold at £5million.

'But then the market went belly up,' says Mike.

A month ago, it was priced at £4.95 million, and now it has taken another £1million reduction.

KEY FACTS
* Price: £3.95m
* Bedrooms: Eight
* Bathrooms: Six
* Others: Indoor pool, spa, cinema and gym

Rightmove link 1 (Strutt & Parker): £3,950,000
Rightmove link 2 (Knight Frank): £3,950,000

PB Main Info: (from oldest listing of above):
Found by PB: 10 July 2009. Price found: £5,950,000
05 September 2009: Price changed: from '£5,950,000' to '£4,950,000
05 March 2010: Price changed: from '£4,950,000' to '£3,950,000'

Update 11th June 2010: PB (applicable to both above RM link listings)
Price changed: from '£3,950,000' to '£3,500,000'

Update 28th Sept 2010: Telegraph article: In 2008, via publicity in Telegraph, was trying to sell it for £7 million.

dopester

Daily Mail
Weybridge, Surrey
Sun goes down on life in Weybridge for David Yelland

By Fred Redwood
Last updated at 3:59 PM on 5th April 2010

For eight years it has been the home of David Yelland, 46, who edited the paper for five years from 1998. But now he is selling the six-bedroom Edwardian semi for £1.25million to move to London and be nearer his son, Max, 11, who is to be a weekly boarder there.

Rightmove link: Guide Price £1,250,000

PB Main info:
Found by PB: 26 January 2010
Price found: Guide Price £1,250,000