Is this a good buy

carefullycautious

What do people think of this as regards holiday accommodation or to buy to live in.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-27845517.html

seems a bargain

AnnieO1234

Am I right in saying the line is still active? I don't think you could pay me to stay there on holiday let alone as a home.

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dominoman

I love it.

Needs some TLC - but it has curiosity value.

Billie-S

I think it is still an active line. If it is, then that is a very weird place to choose to have a house. Prob why it's so cheap x

Would be a NO for me.

Billie-S

Hmmmmmm, just looked at the journey planner from British Rail, and there seems to be only 16 trains a day., (8 trains one way, 8 back,) so the level of noise would be very small. But still, the house is awfully close to the train track. Too close for comfort I think. Looks like it's very tired too, and needs a LOT of upgrading. It's very dated.

I would wager possibly new heating system, new bathroom, new kitchen, new windows and doors. And that is before decoration. It's a huge house too, so the maintenance will cost bucketloads. Heating bills will be high too, as it's a huge old house.

With all that needs doing, the 85 grand could soon run into 105-110 grand or more. And then it could be hard to sell, because of its close proximity to the railway line. And houses rarely fetch a lot in Wales. (Not sure why.)

I would give it a swerve.

laurel7172

I lived next to an active railway line when I was a student...got used to it in no time.

Billie-S

laurel7172 wrote: »

I lived next to an active railway line when I was a student...got used to it in no time.

I lived not far from an active railway line too, in my 20s.... It ran past the bottom of the garden, and was about 150 feet from the houses. Some people do live not far from active railway lines.

Can you honestly say though, that the windows of the rooms you lived in were approximately ten feet from the railway line?

janthemum

I think it looks great and a project.
You soon get usedto the noise.

uk_american

From a practical sense, would say 'no' based on the points others have made. In particular, as a holiday house it would be too close to foot traffic, just advertising that it was empty if anything happened to occur.

In my 'escape from Essex and the London commute' mindset however, as someone who loves little stations, there's something so very quaint about a train that has its first run at 06.54 and last in at 21.48. If you were self-employed in IT or a writer or other such person working from home, you could enjoy the solitude and occaionally pop out and sell cups of tea and travel snacks and meet the hourly trains incoming.

You'd be surrounded by Snowdonia, it looks to be a lovely coastline just minutes away, and the station at your front door is on a direct line to Birmingham...albeit 3.5 hours away. Assuming you had the cash to do it up, it would make for a quirky b&b to earn some extra cash. Bonus-you're near the Fairbourne steam line (narrow gauge), a tourism line from Apr-Oct.

On the negative side, Fairbourne is not expected to last long term, which may explain the low cost: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-26125479
Returning to Essex now.

Sophie-1

If it's an active line then I wouldn't interested. It would make it very difficult to sell.

Lord_Baltimore

This isn't a good buy. The train line is ridiculously close and Station Road floods.