Drooling over houses I love but can't afford

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happyandcontented wrote: »

I have always fancied a house with a water view. Thanks OP I have just spent time drooling over waterside properties. Here is one I quite fancy:
http://www.knightfrank.co.uk/en/properties/residential/for-sale/allenhayes-road-salcombe-tq8/exe170029

Although I do like period too.....choices, choices!!

This would be my ideal retirement location - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-65582156.html

Tammykitty

I want this house


http://www.eocestateagents.com/50-beragh-hill-road-ballyarnet-derrylondonderry/328151


It would be amazing to do it up!

happyandcontented

Tammykitty wrote: »

I want this house


http://www.eocestateagents.com/50-beragh-hill-road-ballyarnet-derrylondonderry/328151


It would be amazing to do it up!

Oooh yes, that would be amazing when restored, and so cheap and with another house which could be used for a holiday let or business etc. I bet this will be snapped up.

jeanzbeanz

Cakeguts - basically it is the plot you are paying for yes! And given the prices some houses command on that road, it's reasonable for the plot, but we were hoping we might be able to live in the house as it is and do it up at a later date.. but no such luck!! I am wanting a project but definitely not wanting to live in a house with rotten windows, chunks of plaster falling off the walls, mouldy carpets, and the worst smell of pee I have EVER come across. There is an old couple living in it at present and I feel so sorry for them. There were family photos in the house but clearly none of the family have tried to help them upkeep the place
Looking back at the particulars makes me have the itch to just risk it and offer on it anyway... MAYBE if the bank would lend us a bit more and we did the work ourselves........ but really I know it's not an option!

jeanzbeanz

Derry tends to be so affordable! ADORE the stained glass! ...and the fireplaces... and the beams.. and the stairs...and the gates...and the gardens!

Mrs36

Eek, is it just me or does anyone else find that Derry house a bit creepy? Do I spy 2 AGAs though? :shocked: (sorry, banging on about AGAs again, twice in one thread. Think I may have a minor obsession :rotfl:)

Tammykitty

happyandcontented wrote: »

Oooh yes, that would be amazing when restored, and so cheap and with another house which could be used for a holiday let or business etc. I bet this will be snapped up.

Its been for sale since 2011 I think originally at £750k


It's a listed building so would be very expensive to do up!

Whoknowskt89

I end up drooling over simple properties too! Looking at moving in 3 to 5 years but think this type will be slightly out of my budget!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/65659997

This will probably be more like what I get

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/58709602

TheGardener

Tammykitty wrote: »

I want this house


http://www.eocestateagents.com/50-beragh-hill-road-ballyarnet-derrylondonderry/328151


It would be amazing to do it up!

I think this is the best one on this thread so far!! What a dream house - how do houses like that end up so dilapidated and unloved?! Its fabulous!

So many of the others - especially the Radlett ones are so cold and soulless - I don't think even if I had that kind of money - I would entertain those white, glass and tile places. I just cant imagine them being a 'home' - the Derry one though I adore.

What about this one - very chocolate box
http://search.savills.com/list#/r/detail/gbbarsbas160026

moneyistooshorttomention

Whoknowskt89 wrote: »

I end up drooling over simple properties too! Looking at moving in 3 to 5 years but think this type will be slightly out of my budget!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/65659997

This will probably be more like what I get

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/s6p/58709602

Before I spent loadsa money on renovating current property the first one would have sounded rather about the "level I can afford" - but I am tending to prefer the second one of those two actually.

As for my own dream home - there was one I was lusting after for months for some time between/after moving from starter house in home area to current house (in very different area). I was following that one for months and hoping for a miracle. No-one seemed to want it - as it was a 1950s house. But...it was on the more rural outskirts of my home city and with a few acres of land accompanying it. It would have involved "owning the view" as another poster on here refers to it (ie I would always have been guaranteed keeping my nice country-ish type surroundings - as I would have been the owner of them).

It was a 4 bedroom detached house - but little done to it since the 1950s. It was the location that I was lusting after.

Those are THE two basic criteria as far as I am concerned - detached and the location I want and I'll forgive everything else (apart from things that darn nearly everyone doesnt want - like subsidence/Japanese Knotweed nearby/risk of flooding/etc).

So - right now and my Dream Home costs somewhere between £400,000 and £700,000 if it comes on the market - so pretty modest (compared to ones costing millions).