The "have a look at this!" thread II 5 August 2011 at 11:16AM edited 15 June 2016 at 2:02PM in House Buying, Renting & Selling 28.6K replies 3.5M views

gallygirl

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Saw what you mean, as per end photo = big house decided to garden grab their own garden and built the bungalow. Presume it was a granny annexe and they have now decided to sell to a stranger?

Looks new (though why wallpaper the little bedroom?). Good on them. There's a house near me that has loads of room to build another - they're an end terrace so am sure they'd get planning permission to make it a row of say 5 instead of 4. Seems a wasted opportunity - the garden's not that well looked after so not as if they'd miss it. I love it when people go for it :T.

Davesnave

martinthebandit wrote: »

Looks to me as though someone was looking for their 'inheritance' or believed the rumours that grandad had a lot of cash stashed away.

Well if he did, he didn't pay the mortgage with it!

It's a repo.....;)

Davesnave

gallygirl wrote: »

I love it when people go for it :T

Houses with Grannexes are in demand, but if the garden space has been trashed, selling as a pair won't be very easy.

It's also possible that in this case Grandma didn't survive long enough....:(

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Corelli wrote: »

Poor cat if it lives there

I know!

I hope whoever used to live there didn't just leave him behind!

robatwork

Can get a great suntan in this garden

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42560380.html

robatwork

Let's go for that "just lived in" look - particularly great are the garden chairs here http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44829416.html

robatwork

and.....for the last word in tackiness

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/ukraine-president-yanukovych-abandons-lavish-3172943

gallygirl

robatwork wrote: »

Can get a great suntan in this garden

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42560380.html

C'mon, where's your imagination? A bit of whitewash and some pots and you could be anywhere in the world. Assuming most places in the world have concrete and corrugated tin that is . And blue plastic. And weeds.

moneyistooshorttomention

gallygirl wrote: »

Looks new (though why wallpaper the little bedroom?). Good on them. There's a house near me that has loads of room to build another - they're an end terrace so am sure they'd get planning permission to make it a row of say 5 instead of 4. Seems a wasted opportunity - the garden's not that well looked after so not as if they'd miss it. I love it when people go for it :T.

I'll admit to being thoroughly puzzled as to why anyone would let a stranger live in their garden.

I don't actually understand at all why anyone would ever have anything whatsoever built on their garden (other than, possibly, a granny annexe = for granny only) and only if the garden is big enough to do so (ie what most people would call "huge").

I'd eat baked beans on toast for lunch and lentils for dinner every day sooner personally...and I do have enough garden now that I could plonk a building there if I chose (assuming I'm wrong about the covenants I believe there are here:D that prevent people doing that).

Strapped

For money.