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The "have a look at this!" thread II

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  • westernpromise
    westernpromise Posts: 4,833 Forumite
    quantumlobster wrote: »
    I love that, without reservation. I'd have less furniture and stuff, though. Space is everything to me.

    It's nice, but three things put me off: it's a 1-bedroom, the kitchen is the size of a phone box and it's only an 86-year lease.

    I am not sure any of those is fixable. You need I think a 2/3rds majority of lessees to buy the freehold, but in this building "many of the flats now provide accommodation for key workers under a co-ownership scheme" - meaning you wouldn't get it because they can't afford it. And that's assuming there are no special rules applicable to Grade I listed buildings.
  • Smodlet
    Smodlet Posts: 6,976 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I'm with Money. A dead antelope on the wall of a flat, fgs. Just shows, money can't buy taste. If I had that kinda dosh, I'd have my 90 acres and, if necessary, private guards to fend off the chavs/pikers/whatever.
  • quantumlobster
    quantumlobster Posts: 510 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    westernpromise wrote: »
    It's nice, but three things put me off: it's a 1-bedroom, the kitchen is the size of a phone box and it's only an 86-year lease.

    I am not sure any of those is fixable. You need I think a 2/3rds majority of lessees to buy the freehold, but in this building "many of the flats now provide accommodation for key workers under a co-ownership scheme" - meaning you wouldn't get it because they can't afford it. And that's assuming there are no special rules applicable to Grade I listed buildings.
    For my weekend pad in town, it'd be ideal. The kitchen is more than big enough for making a cuppa - anything else and me and my trophy spouse would be up West for a spot of fain daining.
  • cloo
    cloo Posts: 1,291 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Just... what?! All the things money can buy with no particular idea what to do with them for the most part.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53952135.html
  • bouicca21
    bouicca21 Posts: 6,720 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    cloo wrote: »
    Just... what?! All the things money can buy with no particular idea what to do with them for the most part.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53952135.html

    I just don't have the words to describe anything that awful.
  • quantumlobster
    quantumlobster Posts: 510 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    cloo wrote: »
    Just... what?! All the things money can buy with no particular idea what to do with them for the most part.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53952135.html
    Owner: "It's a grade II listed chalet, imported from Switzerland in 1882"

    Friend: "Cool."

    O: "And I've put a beach in it."

    F: "Of course you have. Why wouldn't you?"
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    quantumlobster wrote: »
    "

    O: "And I've put a beach in it."

    F: "Of course you have. Why wouldn't you?"


    Perhaps, if one had cats, there would be cause to reconsider....;)
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    cloo wrote: »
    Just... what?! All the things money can buy with no particular idea what to do with them for the most part.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53952135.html

    And being sold by receivers. I can see where the money went.
  • Smodlet
    Smodlet Posts: 6,976 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Looks like the illegitimate offspring of Country Bear Hall and a pagoda, done up as a crack den.
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! PPI Party Pooper
    cloo wrote: »
    Just... what?! All the things money can buy with no particular idea what to do with them for the most part.

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53952135.html

    If Marie Antoinette and Peter Stringfellow ever bought a house together...


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