The "have a look at this!" thread II

moneyistooshorttomention

AFF8879 wrote: »

On another note, I feel like this thread has totally validated my addiction to rightmove.

...and the thought for the day being "Do people only stop looking at Rightmove if/when they've got exactly the house/location they want?" or do even those that "love their home" still look on RightMove?

Contessa

I love my home but still look on RM. I even look at where I used to live.

moneyistooshorttomention

Contessa wrote: »

I love my home but still look on RM. I even look at where I used to live.

I actually found my last house had been sold on again when I checked out current values in my old street. The buyer only had it for about 2 years and...yep....clear evidence of how fast house prices are rising there that they sold it for rather a lot more than they had paid me for it only that 2 years beforehand.

It has the new kitchen it definitely needed (as the one I'd had all those years before was definitely knackered) and a new bathroom as well I noticed - but "first house" quality ones. So I'd say only £5,000 had been added to its value by that fact. The rest was the raging house price inflation there.

Quick calculation of whether having kept that house two more years and done the new kitchen myself, thrown my pension lump sum into the equation and trying for whatever mortgage I could get at my age might have equalled a better home there. The answer still came back negative....the figures didnt add up and still don't.:cool:

Oh well back to the drawing board and positive thinking.....

At least my buyer hadnt bought/then sold on so soon after for the sake of "making money" on it - as I could see from the photos that they've had another child since buying it (so would need a bigger house anyway).

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Still thinking :D re that home you bought at about that time and how it's worked out well for you:T

Lauralou79

I moved nearly 2 months ago and I still have the right move app on my phone. I still like looking at houses it's become a habit after months of house searching. I'm very happy with my house too

System

Contessa wrote: »

I love my home but still look on RM. I even look at where I used to live.

Though not the property I lived in, I found a property about 10 doors down where I lived as a baby in Herts was sold for £450k this year:eek: Another house, about 25 doors up has loft conversion and rear extension - £545k:eek:

My parents think they sold it for around £65k in 1982

moneyistooshorttomention

That I can understand - now trying to think which area of London it is where I was checking out online houses and thinking "Yep...thats my taste and that one and that.......etc etc". Other than it was an area around the £800k-£1million mark I can't recall.

.....and then I went looking around here to buy the stuff I'd seen as absolutely the norm in those houses....you can guess the rest as to whether I found it or no:cool: Trying to re-create a London house in back of beyond is ...errrm...a challenge..:rotfl:

GDB2222

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That I can understand - now trying to think which area of London it is where I was checking out online houses and thinking "Yep...thats my taste and that one and that.......etc etc". Other than it was an area around the £800k-£1million mark I can't recall.

.....and then I went looking around here to buy the stuff I'd seen as absolutely the norm in those houses....you can guess the rest as to whether I found it or no:cool: Trying to re-create a London house in back of beyond is ...errrm...a challenge..:rotfl:

What's the shortage of? Twigs, or vases?

Davesnave

Contessa wrote: »

I love my home but still look on RM. I even look at where I used to live.

I have no desire to move either, but I still keep the alerts, especially the one that just does our village and the area a few miles around here. I'm always interested in who's hoping to move, and also in what sort of alternatives there might be if our place became too much for us.

While I don't have the ad for the house we sold within internet history, I have photos and details of several houses from my childhood, which I find interesting. Sometimes what hasn't changed in 50 - 60 years, is as surprising as the things which have altered beyond all recognition.

Davesnave

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Though not the property I lived in, I found a property about 10 doors down where I lived as a baby in Herts was sold for £450k this year:eek: Another house, about 25 doors up has loft conversion and rear extension - £545k:eek:

My parents think they sold it for around £65k in 1982

The hostel in South Kensington where I lived for around 6 months at age 18 has long been divided into flats. 'My' floor last sold for £5m, making the corner of the one large room that I called mine roughly £250k!

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

I have no desire to move either, but I still keep the alerts, especially the one that just does our village and the area a few miles around here. I'm always interested in who's hoping to move, and also in what sort of alternatives there might be if our place became too much for us.

I still get the alerts for current area - and I guess it's partly down to having a weathereye at how much my house is worth/re-affirming that I got the best value I could for my available money (which I did I think).

There was an element too of checking out suitable houses for friends - as I had hoped initially to be able to tempt a friend or two to move over here and join me (alas - unsuccessful in that).