Media pimped homes for sale - monitor thread

dopester

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bought Feb 2004 for £360k http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=panorama%2C+Tickenham+Hill%2C+North+Somerset

The Chapel sale for £250k: http://www.houseprices.co.uk/e.php?q=BS21+6SH+chapel&n=10

Good stuff PN. That data ties in with the article and made me think she might not do so badly out of it....

Bought for £360K (2004), sold off a Chapel on the land for £250K (late 2005) = £110K.

Developed main house within £250K budget + £110K = £360,000. Guide Price £795,000 - £360,000 - a little for other associated costs.

Although her and new boyfriend have got another property now on the go as well. A bungalow nearby said they've acquired at £410,000. And the boyfriend is knocking down his own Georgian house in 12 acres to build a bigger house! A lot on the go if all true, but maybe they have wads of money to absorb the risks.

fc123

Robbie Williams bought last year @ £8.1 million...and now on the market for 600k less.
Wonder what it will actually sell for?

Robbie Williams waves goodbye to his £7.5m mansion ...and the little green men


By Martin Delgado
Last updated at 10:35 PM on 29th May 2010

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When Robbie Williams splashed out £8.1 million last year on a seven-bedroom country mansion, the purchase was said to have been inspired by his fascination for extraterrestrial life.
But now the former Take That star is selling it at a £600,000 loss after apparently failing to spot any little green men.
Compton Bassett House, which has its own helicopter hangar, is one of Wiltshire’s grandest privately owned properties. But when Williams bought it, it was claimed that what really attracted him to the area was the reported presence of ley lines.

Take that: Robbie Williams is selling Compton Bassett House at a £600,000 loss

Sci-fi enthusiasts claim these are ‘mystical energy routes’ that guide UFOs – a phenomenon in which Williams is deeply interested.
The county is also known for its mysterious crop circles, which some devotees believe are caused by aliens.
Yet the singer has now put the mansion on the market for £7.5 million and plans to live full-time in Los Angeles – where he and his girlfriend, American model and actress Ayda Field, have another home.
Danny Adams, landlord of the White Horse Inn in the village of Compton Bassett, said: ‘He bought the house to be near the crop circle goings-on, thinking that to be spiritual stuff, but he’s probably realised it’s just a load of blokes stamping round the fields at night.

'To be honest, he didn’t play much of a part in village life. He never came to the pub but we would see him walking his dogs from time to time.’
City of angels: Robbie Williams is planning to live full-time in LA, where he has a property with Ayda Field

The 36-year-old singer and songwriter, who was born in Stoke-on-Trent, would occasionally have a fried breakfast at the Divine Cafe in the nearby village of Cherhill.

But locals said he had not been seen there or at Compton Bassett House for weeks.
The mansion has eight bathrooms, a library, a luxury leisure complex, two staff flats, a pavilion, a tennis court and 70 acres of surrounding parkland.

Built in the 18th Century, it has been extensively restored and boasts a swimming pool in the basement, decorated with Greek-style Doric pillars.
But now it appears that the lure of Ms Field has proved overwhelming.

Last year Williams stunned her by proposing on a live radio programme in Sydney, Australia.
However, his publicist said later that it had been a joke and Williams himself wrote on his blog that they were not engaged.
Williams’s impending departure has done little to disturb the equilibrium of Compton Bassett’s 250 residents.
A neighbour said: ‘He’s just another blow-in from London who’s blowing out again.

'It won’t make any difference to us and if you hadn’t mentioned it, no one would have noticed he’s gone.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282479/Robbie-Williams-waves-goodbye-7-5m-mansion--little-green-men.html#ixzz0pMSELxmK

lostinrates

I think its had to be reduced because we didn't after all, buy next door to Robbie as we were about to when we saw this place. LOL. That plot has been one of my very favs, but had some bad things going for it.

Having seen the house quite close I honestly thought it was a nasty convertion to flats ....and its just across from a landfill site, so need a really good longterm view.

He should by the plot we wanted to make his better though. It is the original park for that house.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I think its had to be reduced because we didn't after all, buy next door to Robbie as we were about to when we saw this place. LOL. That plot has been one of my very favs, but had some bad things going for it.

Having seen the house quite close I honestly thought it was a nasty convertion to flats ....and its just across from a landfill site, so need a really good longterm view.

He should by the plot we wanted to make his better though. It is the original park for that house.

Aaaagh ......;)would you be knowing who tramples the crops into circle shapes then???:D

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Aaaagh ......;)would you be knowing who tramples the crops into circle shapes then???:D

I think the central big circle is where I sit down in the long grass...the radiating smaller ones are cats and chickens sitting...the long sikey lines are the greyhounds limbs. Aliens? No just a rum lot!

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I think the central big circle is where I sit down in the long grass...the radiating smaller ones are cats and chickens sitting...the long sikey lines are the greyhounds limbs. Aliens? No just a rum lot!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Just wondering...I know it's a big price....do you think the asking price is under what it will get (to entice interest) or about right?
Is the land next door still for sale? Hopefully DS will find it somewhere and add it.

dopester

Good one fc. So RW hasn't sold it yet? Apparently he bought it for somewhere between £8.1 and £8.5 million. Can't find a Rightmove link for it either (yet). It's a ridiculous looking house imo, for just one family, or RW and his gf. A bit like that Surrey monstrosity.

Lir and I have already discussed this house in an exchange of PMs fc, in a general discussion about land/plots around the UK !

I do know one of the plots in that area Lir cast an eye over, but it isn't really for me to post up (although I've got that old link bookmarked / currently delisted).

In the PM the name of Compton Bassett rang a memory-alarm, and it was about RW, and also something I'd read about possible extending of the landfill site.

There was an earlier newspaper story about RW selling this huge house and being prepared to sell at a substantially lower amount than he paid.

Telegraph - 29 Oct 2009. 'Robbie Williams ready to sell mansion at £1 million loss'
Robbie Williams is ready to sell his country mansion for a £1 million loss so he can leave Britain before the winter.

Later, I did some further digging and found out some more about the house at about the time RW bought it. (Times - Feb 2009)

However, Williams seems to have paid close to the guide price of £8.5 million, not £7 million as reported, highlighting the relative resilience of the top-notch rural pile with easy access to London. Compton Bassett House - which was offered for sale jointly by Knight Frank and Savills - is just 13 miles from the M4. The drive to London takes about two hours.

What really stayed in my memory was this bit of the Times article - seeing as I try to be energy conscious.

The property's most recent makeover was masterminded by Paul and Selene Cripps, who employed Michael Phillips, the architect who devised the design of the swishly elegant Malmaison hotels. The renovation, begun in 1998, was so extensive that Mr Cripps was forced to install a new electricity substation at the cost of £350,000 as the property was using so much energy.

The Cripps sold up because they wished to downsize; Mr Cripps also told The Times that he was “fed up of having to get into the car for a paper or a pint of milk”.

lostinrates

Do I thin the house is worth that money FC......hmm. that's hard. Tome no, because the lness etc has been wiped out: it really looks very raw...I could believe the windows are uPVC, thouh I'm sure they are wood. The village is nice, nd I think more commutable than would suggest. The pub, IMO, was excellent, one of the nicest REALIST sort of pub I've been in for ages.

If I had tht money I wouldn't be buying that house, because one assumes, that you'll always have something to do to make the house worth while for yu, but undoing that rawness, IMO, is both harder and more wasteful than upgrading or personalising. Its go a nice position though, front just in/bove the village, back out to woods (then below that to one side is the park land, which was part of a farm until recently,) Buying that land would give the house more privacy (although there is a footpath through it) and some untreed acrage.

Robbie's land also has a dirt bike track on it.

Not sure whether the land is still for sale, I deregistered our interest when DH said ''our'' house was ''the'' one as far as he was concerned.. If dopester still has the link I'm fine for it to go up, as we didn't buy there:)

The land there has the most beautiful hares on it.

poppy10_2

Daily Mail (of course)

I sold my last house to Ashley and Cheryl... and whoever buys this one gets a Lamborghini

July 5th 2010

David Gilbert and his wife Jenni, 57, who left Hurtmore to escape the bustle of the commuter belt, are ready to sell up the modern house they moved to in more sleepy Etchingham in East Sussex.

Called Tamarind, it is on the market at £1.695 million, and whoever offers the asking price will get David's cherished red Lamborghini Gallardo, worth about £125,000, thrown in.

Tamarind is a large and comfortable six-bedroom house, amounting to 7,200 sq ft, set in three acres, although its chief distinction is the views over the Etchingham valley.

The children all have long since left home, which is why the couple want to get rid of Tamarind. 'It is very sad after they have all gone, and there is no point in just two of us living in a place with six bedrooms,' says David. The idea is that they will buy a much smaller, lock-up-and-leave property, probably in Essex.

'I have owned five per cent of all the right-hand drive Lamborghinis ever made,' says David.


TAMARIND: KEY FACTS

• Price: £1,695,000
• Bedrooms: Six
• Receptions: Six
• Bathrooms: Three
• Outside space: 2.5 acres, with three-car garage and tennis court

Estate agent: Freeman Forman, 01580 881188

Linkies:

Estate agency pages:

John D Wood
Freeman Forman
Knight Frank


Rightmove links: one two three

Houseprices.co.uk entry: previously sold October 2007 for £1,250,000

dopester

Nice one poppy10 for adding that one, with all the linking property listing details.

In that article he dares to slightly criticise Cashly and Cheryl for redeveloping the house he sold them, and throwing out the olde floor.... when he's pulling his own very tacky media stunt with a "free Lamborghini" on a house that's been marked up big time from its last sale price. With no mention in the article of any major improvements done during his ownership.

He looks safe though, having had real business success, before creaming off a load more via the pure fat of HPI towards the top. Managing to sell the house to the Coles in "October 2007 for £3.55million, offering £50,000 more than the asking price."

'The agents Strutt & Parker told me recently that if I had tried to sell the house six months later I would have lost a million pounds,' says Gilbert, who has his own computer furniture business, PowerDesk International.

What are his agents telling him with this house then? Market is raging with buyers eager to pay over £400,000 more than when you bought it in late 2007? I don't think so.