Homes Under The Hammer - My House!

PasturesNew

If I've got the right one:

Auction Guide £125k
3-beds, mid terrace. 1930s
Quite dated. Wooden floorboards. A lot of light. Dated kitchen needs ripping out. Presenter would have a large open plan kitchen diner, with french doors onto the garden. Good sized garden + outside loo. There is some damp on the ceiling where the flashing has gone where it joins the bay. Old aluminium windows. Qutie a lot of damp throughout it, up the walls etc.

Auction date: I can tell you by PM if this is yours
Auctioneer: I can tell you by PM if this is yours, Lot 20
Sold for £190k

Sold again 9 months later for £250k

Sold to Amanda and Christine. Work colleagues and friends. It is their first auction purchase. Been friends about 20 years, worked together for 9 years.
Partners are plasterer and heating engineer. Their partners were school friends of each other.

Budget: £25k
Want to: Knock down the wall between kitchen/dining area.

Revisit 8 weeks later: it's done
New windows throughout. Moved walls to create big kitchen diner with two sets of patio doors onto the garden.
New old-style fireplace and living flame gas fire
Tiled bathroom floor and walls. Garden was cleared.
Polished floorboards, carpets

Spent: an extra £2k. So total spend of £220k

Agent valuations: £265-270k

They said: "have already sold it for £265k, but they believe it'd probably get a bit more as they've not shown it to anybody."

So in the end made £30k less buying/selling costs and interest on money of £220k for 9 months which is another £1k/month.

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And - if that's yours, I see it's on the market now at £299,950 and is Sold STC

hazyjo

Davesnave wrote: »

Well, you never know, they might want to do a sequel to the series, called "Homes Unhammered," where present-day owners show how they rid their properties of the magnolia paint and fitted carpets which covered a heap of sins! :rotfl:

It's still magnolia - yuck! Can't wait for it all to go. Would prefer white to that, but it will mainly have colour thrown at it. God, I HATE magnolia! It's everywhere!

PasturesNew wrote: »

Does your road begin with a P?
I used to make notes as I watched.

Indeedy

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I've got the right one:

Auction Guide £125k
3-beds, mid terrace. 1930s
Quite dated. Wooden floorboards. A lot of light. Dated kitchen needs ripping out. Presenter would have a large open plan kitchen diner, with french doors onto the garden. Good sized garden + outside loo. There is some damp on the ceiling where the flashing has gone where it joins the bay. Old aluminium windows. Qutie a lot of damp throughout it, up the walls etc.

Auction date: I can tell you by PM if this is yours
Auctioneer: I can tell you by PM if this is yours, Lot 20
Sold for £190k

Sold again 9 months later for £250k

Sold to Amanda and Christine. Work colleagues and friends. It is their first auction purchase. Been friends about 20 years, worked together for 9 years.
Partners are plasterer and heating engineer. Their partners were school friends of each other.

Budget: £25k
Want to: Knock down the wall between kitchen/dining area.

Revisit 8 weeks later: it's done
New windows throughout. Moved walls to create big kitchen diner with two sets of patio doors onto the garden.
New old-style fireplace and living flame gas fire
Tiled bathroom floor and walls. Garden was cleared.
Polished floorboards, carpets

Spent: an extra £2k. So total spend of £220k

Agent valuations: £265-270k

They said: "have already sold it for £265k, but they believe it'd probably get a bit more as they've not shown it to anybody."

So in the end made £30k less buying/selling costs and interest on money of £220k for 9 months which is another £1k/month.

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And - if that's yours, I see it's on the market now at £299,950 and is Sold STC

That's BRILLIANT - thank you so much. Lots to take in.

I'll give you a run down of how it is now (only been in a week though!).

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Survey came back very positive, one of the best I've had. No damp mentioned anywhere (was surprised as thought it would have as had been empty for ages and always seemed cold and unloved).

It just wouldn't sell - despite the EA banging on about how popular it was and how it would sell and was a bargain. I tried to buy it for over 4 weeks but the EAs just didn't seem interested! An offer fell through on it last year.

I still think it's dated (although love the fireplace). An elderly lady had it before me. She died and her son acted as executor. He rented it out for a year or so, but tenants pretty much wrecked a lot of it.

They might have replaced the kitchen on the programme, not sure... but it's now knackered, not particularly user friendly, and needs gutting. Going to replace the lot and maybe knock the back out a bit, level with the back of a cupboard (where there is currently plumbing for washing machine).

I paid £274k (after much battling with the EA!).

Wooden floorboards remain, although I've found several links on the net showing carpet downstairs when it was tenanted. It's now carpeted up the stairs, landing and bedrooms (seems to have been replaced after tenants left).

It now has a large kitchen diner with one door onto decked area of garden, although the other part of the glazed section opens so it's like having French doors if you get what I mean. No patio doors. Strange frosted glazed kind of wall at back of utility area - that will go eventually.

Garden's not that big (only 30' max I'd say), and is paved (decoratively), with flowerbeds round the outside and a nice kind of arbour between the decking and paved bit.

No outside or downstairs loo (did know it used to have one).

Don't think the lounge fireplace is gas! Am sure it's just a normal coal type one. Will look for gas pipes lol! From looking at the other photos I've found, when tenanted it had something looking like a log burner in the dining area's fireplace. Now that's just a square gap, nothing in it. The tenants might have nicked or broken it! Who knows...

Rubbish lino in bathroom (nothing under it other than floorboards). Will sort eventually.

Lots to do in the house, but know it's a fantastic buy. I absolutely love it and can't wait to inject some personality into it. It's already got pictures and mirrors up, and I have plans for it. A house round the corner was up for £350k recently, and another for £320k - both sold within a week or two. Prices are generally still high in the area and not much comes on around there under £320k.

Thanks again Anything sent by PM appreciated.

Jx

PasturesNew

hazyjo wrote: »

Thanks again Anything sent by PM appreciated.

Jx

Sent the date/auctioneer details.

molerat

I think somebody in here needs to get out more

PasturesNew

molerat wrote: »

I think somebody in here needs to get out more

Getting out costs money ... sitting on my bum watching telly is cheap.