Street view is so useful

Contessa

Street View has revealed the following from EA's details: electricity substation in the garden; fabulous looking Victorian house with beautiful gardens in the front and opposite a lovely park-but bordered on either side by 2 garage businesses; another interesting house in a small village, made more interesting by what appears to be a small foundry on one side of it. The latest is....a house next to a large cemetery! What else have people discovered?

poppysarah

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28976444.html

Was in the guardian. Looks great in the EA photo - the picture on streetview is awful though - you have to assume it's been painted since then.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-21562165.html
This is on a dirt track. Seriously bad road. And very expensive bungalow.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-16488913.html
This has had the diggers in.

Sadly the property I have my heart set on is not on streetview *sobs* otherwise I would be cyberstalking it right now.

Contessa

With the first property I don't think the EA is right in his assertion that King George liked it so much that he awarded it the title, "Bognor Regis"-my understanding is that the Mayor requested the title when the king was leaving after his unsuccusseful convalescence. The king's famous reply was "B****r Bognor!" That should knock a few K's off the asking price! 'The last one looks like it could have been stunning-but, in another location, and without Bob the Builder and his pals.

Trollfever

This has had the diggers in.

And this is Property-Bee


History

dateevent10 December 2009

• Price changed: from '£310,000' to '£285,000'

06 November 2009

• Status changed: from 'Premium Listing' to 'Available'

04 May 2009

• Brief Description changed: Magnificent Victorian Gentleman's residence understood to have been built around 1860 having up to 7 bedrooms. Whilst the accommodation certainly requires a programme of refurbishment/modernisation, it retains much of its original charm & character and offers great potential t... to create a wonderful...

21 February 2009

• Status changed: from 'Available' to 'Premium Listing'

09 February 2009

• Title changed: Manchester Old Road,MIDDLETON,Middleton,Manchester Road,Middleton,Manchester

19 December 2008

• Price changed: from '£475,000' to '£310,000'

09 December 2008

• Brief Description changed: PART-EXCHANGE PART-EX CONSIDERED. A magnificent early Magnificent Victorian Gentleman's residence understood to have been built around 1860 having up to 7 bedrooms. Whilst the accommodation certainly requires a programme of refurbishment/ modernisation, refurbishment/modernisation, it retains much of its original charm and & character and offers ... great potential t...
• Price changed: from '£310,000' to '£475,000'
• Subtitle changed: from '7 bedroom detached' to '7 bedroom detached house '
• Title changed: Manchester Old Road, Middleton, Manchester Road,MIDDLETON,Middleton,Manchester

31 October 2008

• Brief Description changed: PART-EXCHANGE CONSIDERED. A magnificent early Victorian Gentleman's residence understood to have been built around 1860 having up to 7 bedrooms. Whilst the accommodation certainly requires a programme of refurbishment/ modernisation, it retains much of its original charm and character and offers great potential to create ...

08 October 2008

• Price changed: from '£374,950' to '£310,000'

04 August 2008

• Initial entry found.

Sammy85_2

poppysarah wrote: »

Sadly the property I have my heart set on is not on streetview *sobs* otherwise I would be cyberstalking it right now.

You can still semi-stalk using google earth. Invaluble in determining how overlooked something might be and how its garden size compares with neighbours.

madeupname1

Street view can be out of date. The picture of my place was taken just before I had it spruced up.

tootsmyboots

my other half has been working at a house that has been knocked down and rebuilt in a different design to their original house which is on streetview.

sunshinetours

Sammy85 wrote: »

You can still semi-stalk using google earth. Invaluble in determining how overlooked something might be and how its garden size compares with neighbours.

Yes I agree its particulalrly useful for that along with Birds Eye view on Multimap. Even if you know a neigbourhood there a will be plenty you won't realise, particularly how other houses and gardens sit next to the property you are looking at - something you may not even get by viewing a property

Mum_of_3_3

I've found Street View useful for looking at properties from the outside, but now Google Maps is imho virtually useless for looking at properties from a bird's eye view as it keeps popping into Street View - very annoying!

Also I assume that as time goes on it will become less useful for cyber-stalking houses, because a sub-station could've been built or neighbours-from-hell with washing machines and old cars in the garden may have moved in next door since Google has driven past.

M_o_3

When_is_the_reset?

Street View is great - you see things that you thought never existed.

Like flying giant pliers -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/giant_pliers/

johnson293

madeupname1 wrote: »

Street view can be out of date. The picture of my place was taken just before I had it spruced up.

Aye, when we put our house on the market last year, it didn't show the recent 'improvements' i'd made (exterior paintwork, new driveway gates, tidied garden, etc).

It did however show the burnt out derelict house directly opposite! :mad:

We still managed to sell though... thankfully!!! :cool: