What's wrong with this property(ies)?

Lokolo

tyllwyd wrote: »

Fair enough, I should probably have said that the market is patchy - where I am, some houses are selling quickly, some very slowly, but it is difficult to see a pattern behind it.

If the other house has had 3 offers already, why is it still on the market?

Because the "owners", not quite sure if they are owners, are wanting to see ASAP, so they are waiting for the offers to sell their houses first. Once someone has no chain (is that the right word?) they will take it off. The person who lived there died, so the family (I think the family!) are just wanting to rid of it.

Suppose that's a little different from the normal housing approach!

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But yes I suppose it's difficult to work out why some houses sell quickly and others not. I'm not buying for another 9-12 months anyway, just trying to work out what the perfect property is for me!

tyllwyd

Lokolo wrote: »

Because the "owners", not quite sure if they are owners, are wanting to see ASAP, so they are waiting for the offers to sell their houses first. Once someone has no chain (is that the right word?) they will take it off. The person who lived there died, so the family (I think the family!) are just wanting to rid of it.

Suppose that's a little different from the normal housing approach!

So the offers are all from people who aren't proceedable? Or do you mean that they are waiting for a cash buyer?

Lokolo

tyllwyd wrote: »

So the offers are all from people who aren't proceedable? Or do you mean that they are waiting for a cash buyer?

Yeh they can't proceed yet. The EA said their houses (the ones with the offer) have put their houses up for sale but can't seem to sell them.

spirit

Lokolo wrote: »

THIS HOUSE








As I said above, it's difficult to find something affordable and nice looking in Wycombe. It's either a small flat, a terraced old house, something in not a very nice area, or these box houses

I know the area very well too. Nice looking it aint and these ones are in a not very nice area. I wouldn't risk my hard earned cash on any of them tbh.

Lokolo

spirit wrote: »

I know the area very well too. Nice looking it aint and these ones are in a not very nice area. I wouldn't risk my hard earned cash on any of them tbh.

Micklefield isn't THAT bad, Totteridge is worse. No chance anywhere else that's nearish the station. Downley is a no-no. Cressex I could handle, Booker too far away. Easy of Wycombe generally is the only place to go, Loudwater and Wooburn too far away.

LandyAndy

Is the flat roof such a terrible thing? It doesn't look like the place is more than say 8 metres square, that's a maximum of 64 square metres of roof. At £30 a square metre that's just under £2000 every 10 years or so. Hardly a king's ransom. It is a pig ugly house, though.

Lokolo

LandyAndy wrote: »

Is the flat roof such a terrible thing? It doesn't look like the place is more than say 8 metres square, that's a maximum of 64 square metres of roof. At £30 a square metre that's just under £2000 every 10 years or so. Hardly a king's ransom. It is a pig ugly house, though.

The outside or inside?

The inside can change easily, outside a little more difficult.

spirit

Lokolo wrote: »

Micklefield isn't THAT bad, Totteridge is worse. No chance anywhere else that's nearish the station. Downley is a no-no. Cressex I could handle, Booker too far away. Easy of Wycombe generally is the only place to go, Loudwater and Wooburn too far away.

Mickefield is bl00dy awful, I don't even like driving through it. Try Hazlemere and out that way.

LandyAndy

Lokolo wrote: »

The outside or inside?

The inside can change easily, outside a little more difficult.

That's the price to have the outside roof surface stripped and refelted.

hcb42

what happened to property development in the 60s and 70s...it's like we lost the plot!