What's wrong with this house?

conradmum

I've had my eye on this house for a while, just studying the market in preparation for serious moves to buy in a couple of months' time. I like the look of it so I'm surprised it hasn't sold. I'm wondering what I'm missing. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-78068930.html

kazwookie

It's over priced for the area. IMO

AdrianC

If it presents that well, but hasn't sold, then it's got to be either...
1. It's overpriced
2. The seller's an utter fruitloop.
3. There's something seriously wrong with it.

1 is easy to decide from comparables.

Davesnave

Situation's on the edge of nice area. Shaded north facing garden with little or no evening sun, except at the far end, as the agent points out. House itself will leak heat like a sieve, but that's OK 'cos it has an Aga and the obligatory wood burning stove!

Identical footprint to our first house in Bath which last sold at £340k in 2014, but I guess in Cambridge anything's possible too. Ours was end terrace and I don't think the road has broken the £1/2m barrier yet. We moved out, finding it too poky once we had a second child in mind. Like this one, we could have extended, but quart into pint pot etc.

PS. We got rid of our Aga in the current house. Got fed up opening all the windows on sunny February days to let the heat out(!) but this house is way up the energy efficiency chart compared with that one.

coffeehound

Really tiny bathroom — coincidence theres no photo of it?

getmore4less

More like this inc SSTC 1/2mile

price......3b...4b+
0-400 02/04 0/1
0-500 07/05 0/1
0-550 12/07 0/1
0-600 20/11 1/1
0-700 21/15 1/4
0-max 21/18 2/7

Plenty 3 beds selling with asking over £600k no 4bed competition.

compared to this it is a bargain

sold through look like this.

markin

Parking at the side is limited 12 spaces and 8 garages, No way is that enough for the 12 houses on that road + visitors, Many have resorted to fold down bollards. The roof looks very bowed and may need redoing.


And then the is the 100+ council flats, someone check the crime map.

MoneySeeker1

How near are those trees to the house itself? I think the house looks a nice one basically, but am wondering if those trees in the front garden are too close. There's an article in the papers today about a house being sold at auction that should fetch around £270,000 but it's only expected to featch around £75,000 and that's partly due to the house itself needing gutting, but seems to be mainly due to a huge great tree in the front garden uncomfortably close to the house (ie subsidence worries).

micky2phones

MoneySeeker1 wrote: »

How near are those trees to the house itself? I think the house looks a nice one basically, but am wondering if those trees in the front garden are too close. There's an article in the papers today about a house being sold at auction that should fetch around £270,000 but it's only expected to featch around £75,000 and that's partly due to the house itself needing gutting, but seems to be mainly due to a huge great tree in the front garden uncomfortably close to the house (ie subsidence worries).

Hi, was going to say about the trees, plus the roots may broke though into sewer pipes.

At a friend house his toilet would be blocked every few weeks after the 3rd time off helping him i told him to call a plumber/drain person out.

So he came put a camera down and a small root had cracked the drain and toilet paper was catching on the root which build up and closed the drain causing the water to come back on its self.

The cracked pipe was replaced and all was good

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I always find properties with immaculate decor inside but neglected gardens odd.

coffeehound

Also some of the windows look to be single glazed. The woodburner appears to be the only heat source in the living room, so it could be chilly when the stove is cold. There doesn't appear to be an extractor over the AGA, which is odd for a new kitchen (penny-pinching by the developer?).

Funnily enough the streetview shows it had just been sold in October by another agent, and then it's back on the market two months later. Wonder what made the buyer want to move it on so soon..