The "have a look at this!" thread II

lessonlearned

I wouldn't want to pay that much for a 3 bed semi in Belper, I don't think it is very realistically priced.

You could easily rack up £15k on improvements and I'm not sure that you would add much value.

Just my opinion of course - but then I'm after a bargain:rotfl:

poppysarah

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

EDIT: This is also £15M

Wasn't that John Lennons?
Oh aye says so in the blurb! Recognised it from having looked before.

John_Pierpoint

lessonlearned wrote: »

Good morning all

John - thanks for that info. May I ask where you found it. Spoke to DS2 and we are going to try and take a look at the weekend.

Although this is by no means a diy project because we really would need the trades in for this one, my two sons will be providing some much needed muscle and cheap labour. All the bacon butties they can eat......

Going to ring the agents later.

Install "property bee" (google for details) it is a sort of co operative venture to track Rightmove.

Then download what ever the Land Registry knows, for an insight into why it might be for sale (death debt or divorce?). I always wondered why the houses over the road from my late uncle had long front gardens? when I commissioned a HIP it was obvious: huge trunk sewer under the front gardens until it reached the point where it could slip into the back gardens - then the reverse applied.

Finally check the local authority's "Core Strategy" & "Site Allocations Local Plan" (or what ever they are called locally under Dave's make work schemes and house the census panic).

I have not moved in 40 years but been the family "expert" for others and expected to comment on their finds.

Those three, together with Street View, aerial photographs and the Ordnance Survey can save a lot of litres of diesel (Am I the only person in the country that welcomed a read of the HIP - RIP ?)
http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm

There are some useful experts on here too, though perhaps they would not thank me for listing their names.

John_Pierpoint

Come on you are from Oxford, you know where the properties are.
I would just be demonstrating horrible out of town prejudice.

[Is the house a repossession? What does the notice afixed to the conservatory door say? Perhaps the flat has been cleared of all its contents including the copper pipes]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_Leys

Where else in the UK can you pay so much to live amongst the kingdom's 10% most deprived?

poppysarah

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Those three, together with Street View, aerial photographs and the Ordnance Survey can save a lot of litres of diesel (Am I the only person in the country that welcomed a read of the HIP - RIP ?)
http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm

I loved HIPs.

Aren't they supposed to have a PIQ these days?

confused_kid

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Well, if we're 'fessing up to having our eye on future projects, this is mine:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37277317.html

Wow, Cazmanian that looks pretty special...not sure you are seriously considering it, but good luck if you are!!

Would love to a see a project thread with this property...more Grand Designs, then my current Homes under the hammer project :P

moneyistooshorttomention

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Well, if we're 'fessing up to having our eye on future projects, this is mine:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-37277317.html

It's going to auction in Glasgow again tonight, down to a guide price of £185k. It's a Grade B listed 20-bedroomed former nursing home with 136 acres and fishing rights. After the nursing home closed, it was sold for £150k and reading between the lines of the legal pack, the new buyer remortgaged it for £400k with Bank of Scotland and promptly did a runner. BoS have been trying to offload it for about 4 years, it was originally with Savills at £405k and has been doing the rounds of the auction houses for the past couple of years. Its last appearance was at a guide price of £240k, so they've knocked another £65k off and it's getting to the point where I'm seriously thinking about buying a lottery ticket, because it would be a beautiful, beautiful house once restored.

WOT!!! Seriously, really, really - they havent gone and missed another figure of that price or something?:eek::cool: Flippin' heck....even if it went for twice the guide price - BARGAIN!!!! - and some...whew...

lessonlearned

Thanks John, really helpful stuff there.

Yes I think HIP's were a good idea, pity they didn't make it.

I thought it was John Lennon's house, didn't read the blurb just looked at the pictures.

mkgirl1981

mkgirl1981 wrote: »

Not too sure what you call the bit in the middle http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-24091215.html?premiumA=true

I'm not sure I'd like the idea of everyone in the house being able to see into my room. ESP when I was a teenager as teens do tend to love hibernating in their room as much as possible

cazmanian_minx

confused_kid wrote: »

Wow, Cazmanian that looks pretty special...not sure you are seriously considering it, but good luck if you are!!

Would love to a see a project thread with this property...more Grand Designs, then my current Homes under the hammer project :P

It's a bit much to take on as a first project If it's still available in another 4 years when I've got my finances straightened out, then you never know

moneyistooshorttomention - given the location, it's priced about right. Even fully done up it would struggle to achieve £750k I think.